{watching} Ribbit
(Amazon pre order link). Full review to follow (with giveaway!) but the younger two kids really enjoyed this.
Evening watching is currently Once upon a time on Netflix. Which is oddly gripping. Even if it is just fairly tales. #StreamTeam
{reading} nothing right this second, but I read Only Ever Yours last night. It just won the inaugural YA book prize, and I’ve heard lots of great things about it. Review to follow. (I seem to be saying that a lot just now 😉 )
{learning} about the technicalities of picture books. I went to a workshop at the library this afternoon. I want to write it up in full detail (yeah, yeah, post coming 😉 I’ve got a lot of writing to do!)
{taking} pictures, and time. Drawing, and dreaming. I have found all sorts of little wants that I’ve been missing. And I’m allowing myself to enjoy satisfying them in what little ways I can. I’m finding that treating myself makes it easier to be a whole person, it’s the first aid principle.
#52memories
Snapshots.
Big entered one of her pictures into an online art competition. I’m very proud of her for giving it a go. She’s also started working on Khan Academy, as has Small. He levelled up quite impressively, though I do need to file a bug report as he didn’t get the points he feels he should have done from one of the badges he achieved. (Although I can’t quite tell whether you’re supposed to get points for badges, or whether you get badges for points. It isn’t in the slightest bit clear.) Smallest is conducting her own version of guerilla education (I think maybe she’s been reading The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
behind my back 😉 ) and this week has been using coins to practice counting, working out writing her brother’s name and plotting a project on lifecycles. Tigerboy is mainly working on cuteness. He’s pretty much got it cracked tbh.
For me – I entered in WHSmith #sketchoff this week. They posted a picture on their facebook wall, and you had 90 minutes to draw it. I didn’t find out on time, and I had dinner to make too, but I was still pretty pleased with my attempt. What do you reckon?
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