Tag: Ages past
Mixed weather, mixed day.
I hadn’t realised how weather reliant my children’s moods are – I know the sunshine affects me, but really hadn’t clicked on how much it changes them. So this morning, while it bucketed down, they watched mindless tv mainly, although there was yet another viewing of Horrible History (have realised that they have recorded one…
Incidental education
During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can track all of these, but a couple have stood out over the last two days,…
edited highlights
mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either! Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I loved the end “the baby cryed in his mind.” It was completely unprompted, and I…
Boredom, maths, hats and old buildings.
Most of the time the kids amuse themselves – I keep an eye on what they are up to and offer suggestions, facilitate interests, drag them out on outings and set up groups and visits. So far it seems to be working quite well 🙂 Yesterday morning, Small complained he was bored. He didn’t want…
Library, gardening and Weakest link.
Yesterday, after lying around feeling sorry for myself for a while (which seems to be a common theme among my friends atm 😉 ) I pulled myself together and took the children to the library. Big decided she wanted to have another go at reading the Deathly Hallows and checked online that they had copies,…
And another day passes
Tim and Small finished putting the curtain rail back up this morning and thus the computer/ tv ban was over, so they celebrated with a viewing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I saw a game, Harry Potter Scene It? 2nd Edition DVD Game, in a charity shop the other day that I…
Traumatised cat.
When I opened the ladder up to our loft bedroom last night, I realised that the cat had once again expressed his displeasure with the move in the standard way, fortunately this time on the spare quilt rather than on the bed 🙁 So this morning we togged him up with a harness and lead…
Saturday is party day
for Big at least 🙂 Knowing that she had to be offthepath for 1pm I dragged myself out of bed in plenty of time to get Big going. It turned out to be in plenty of time to have many running battles, on what to wear, how to speak to ppl, when to get dressed…
Backdating…
Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds 🙂 Can’t be bothered to change the date though! After the children get bored they move on to what is a more productive phase, depending on how you look at it. For…
Unsuccessful charity shop scouring
Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh well, we are sorted from the library right atm, I just wanted to be sure…