Saturday snippets 25 April 2015

{watching} Annie for family film night. It’s Smallest’s new favourite film – full review from her on Monday, along with the video from the wonderful workshop we attended. Evenings are Once upon a Time, we’re on Season 4 and starting to panic slightly about what we’re going to watch next.

{reading} Lots of phonic readers, picture books and the very special Read me like a book.

{eating} home made garlic dough balls. With possibly a touch too much garlic. (Is there such a thing as too much garlic?)

{missing} Big. More on that in our snapshots.

{enjoying} sunny days, garden time and living here.

{sneaking up} on decluttering. It doesn’t really work. But neither does any other strategy I’ve come up with. Sigh.

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Snapshots

Big is away on her first Army Cadet camp. I’m trying hard not to worry about the fact they’re camping out in minimal kit on a weekend that features thundery rain showers. It’s been lovely weather all week until today. Today it has done rain. Small has got back into coding in a big way courtesy of the Kano that we’re reviewing, and it’s great to see. Smallest now demands to read a book every night at bedtime. It might be a delaying tactic, but I can work with that. Tigerboy is having a bit of a child led go at potty training, which is an interesting experience. All on his own terms, as ever.

Me. I have spent some time drawing and working on graphics this week. And a bit of photography, see a beautiful blog for an example of that. I’ve also decided that I really need to face facts and get more physical – basically, I’m seizing up. If I don’t exercise, and work at it, I’m going to get old a lot faster than I’ve got planned, so I think it’s back to the running, the yoga and the pilates. In the morning.

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