Tag: Big
Last night I did read
I’ve been coming home and going to bed for a couple of hours, then getting up and coming down for something to eat. I’ve made it through the week because of this, and next week I’m off every day except Tuesday, so I should be able to recharge then. Last night I read books. I…
A weekend.
Yesterday didn’t feel like much of a Saturday. Knowing that my assignment was due in but not finished, I set the alarm (shock, horrors, I hate having the alarm go off on a weekend). I got up and got on, and texted to find out what time I was due at school for the meeting,…
Bedtime stories
This week Tim has been away in Suffolk, which has meant his standard evening task of reading bedtime stories has fallen to me. I don’t really remember when bedtime stories became his job, but they usually are, and tbh, I quite enjoy that – after a full day of children it’s quite nice to have…
Maturing.
Time, 18.30. Location, bedroom. Small: can we watch another episode of Doctor Who? Me: are you going to want something to eat tonight? Small: yes. Me: then I don’t think there’s time – another episode of Doctor who will take you to quarter past seven, and that’s too late to be eating when you need…
Right there and still missed it.
Tonight was Big’s Brownie promise, and I’m sorry, but I can’t post any pictures. No, I didn’t forget the camera. No, I didn’t run out of batteries, nor did they ban pictures for bizarre child protection purposes. I wasn’t too late, we weren’t locked out of the room. Oh, it’s way better than that 🙁…
Echoes of the past.
At the weekend I found a diary that I kept for around 18 months in the late 90s. It details a relationship or two, a job or two, my state of mind, and most particularly, at least to my state of mind tonight, it details the evening when I called my parents’ house to find…
Another weekend
another car load of stuff. 🙁 I don’t think of us as particularly materialistic (stop sniggering at the back there) yet the amount of stuff is phenomenal, granted a lot of it is books, or things I should have got rid of but haven’t, but even so. Today I bagged up another bag of rubbish…
When will I learn?
Two months ago, I posted about Small’s reading. I talked about whole word recognition, and how that’s what we were focussing on. We didn’t tell Small that. Somewhere since then, pretty much unaided, especially as he didn’t come to school that much in holiday club, he decided that he would get phonics, figure out most…
A good day
started by the fact that I didn’t surface until 12.30, as I was finishing off my book, The Margarets 🙂 Not sure that I can be bothered to write a separate book review post (although I ought, as there are a couple of other books I’ve read that I haven’t reviewed yet. But there you)…
One week down
of our new school attendance pattern, and I think it’s gone pretty well all round. Big is now going four days a week, and Small three, so they’re both back to flexi-schooling, which I think suits them both well. Big is slightly unimpressed that Small gets a whole day of Daddy to himself, but seems…