Tag: Big
Drifting along.
Quite worrying that before I post I have to read the last post to work out what we’ve been doing… I can’t actually remember Saturday terribly well. Ah yes. Big made her first purse out of the wool we’d bought on Friday, so we went down to the shop again to buy some more of…
lessons in life
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) rather than the 50p he’s been getting. It took an hour, but he counted out…
Books finished today
Right-brained Children in a Left-brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Jeffrey Freed. Borrowed this one from Kirsty following ponderings on Small, who most definitely doesn’t fit into standard assessments of learning styles or behaviours. I don’t know whether he’s right brained though, as he cheated on the test I gave him to…
Remiss.
In blogging. I will regret that if I don’t catch up a little as it will be a week I can’t remember. So some highlights, or at least memory prompts. Walking – I’ve walked to friend’s house to feed her cat 5 times, but not Thursday as it was really rather wet. I feel good…
relaxing weekend.
I did attempt to locate Bil and the children, but got no response to text or calls, so when C called up to invite us over to meltham instead, it seemed a good idea. We loaded up with sunsuits, suncream, sunhats and towels and went and sat in the garden, with Pimms and home made…
thank you all
done. And home again. Big is playing chess with Tim, and Small is learning backgammon from me (his choice) except he’s gone for a comfort break. It’s been a very long day and I have a stinking headache – I may be back later, but if not I just wanted to say thank you to…
too many tears
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today – went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to…
Are there things you can't learn at home?
Big is learning something new atm. She’s learning how to deal with another child coming in to her group seemingly as a rival. Big is used to being the biggest, the most helpful, the child who can do things for the staff to help other children. And now we have another girl who is bigger,…
sleepy saturday
the start of my morning was very similar to Jan’s apart from the fact that we don’t have a dishwasher so that was more of a manual operation. 😉 Oh, and the children had already got themselves up and breakfasted. Oh, and we don’t have a dog. OK, so I did washing and breadmaking 😀…
birthdays, beds and other stuff.
We’ve had two birthdays this week, as mentioned previously, so there have been drawn out celebrations. After thursday, which was multiply blogged, on friday we met my mother at M’hell, partly for the purposes of buying wedding wear as my sister’s nuptials are approaching. (This is my sole remaining unmarried sister, so unless they start…