so to today

I am a good mother.  Big has been wanting to sew for ages, from this cloth pattern thing that mother got her for Christmas.  It’s got Woman’s weekly 1991 on it, but I can’t find anything about it on t’interweb, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. Ah, I tried some more, and I found something similar on Ebay

So we got out her sewing machine, and it was very much a joint effort. It’s not a fantastic machine, although it coped surprisingly well with all the corners, and she did very well with controlling its speed towards my fingers 😉

I’ve finished it off for her tonight, and I anticipate she’s going to want to do more tomorrow.  There are quite a few more dolls on the sheet, so it should keep us occupied for a while.

Small played on the computer for a while – I’m frequently amazed at his mouse skills and overall control.  I know he spends quite a bit of time cbeebies, and tonight he was playing on Adiboo, a game that Big has played for a while. He’s surprisingly good at pretty much everything, and he enjoys just getting on with it. Prime candidate for this home education lark if you ask me 😉

Have enjoyed broadening my horizons on the feminism topic in the post below, will have to continue reading around the subject.  I do think there are some issues to think about, but then there are with pretty much every approach you take to life – we didn’t take home education on board without due consideration, Tim and I didn’t waltz lightly back off to work either. All good fun anyway.

Right, as I slept in til 10 am this morning, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m still a touch run down, and I’m clearing off to bed now.  Will have to see how much of my todo list I can clear tomorrow – today has mainly been about relaxing, and you know what?  I don’t feel the slightest bit guilty about that.  I think I had it coming 🙂

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