Tag: Doodling, drawing and decoration.
I am a good mummy
So good, that Big cried with joy when she found the missing computer game at her place at the table this morning 🙂 Or so she tells us – I was still in bed! Small is also still in bed. I’m assuming that this is because he was hot and uncomfortable and didn’t get to…
Improving
And can’t help wondering if it’s because I encouraged a workbook session or two 😉 We’re back to the Exeter maths. There’s been reading as well, sitting gazing blankly at class tv (she watched two episodes, back to back, of a spelling show!) A little more string art, this is obviously going to take a…
Education in and amongst
Taking another break as I’m somewhat downhearted. Was searching for resources to back up my (limited) understanding of bit manipulation, and on the site of the author of the book I’m using, javaranch, came across a campfire story purporting to explain it. And directly contradicting the book I’m using. I’ve emailed to request an explanation!…
Ooh, my brain hurts…
time to take a break from the studying, and catch up with the blogging, maybe do some (paying) work… So, today. Yet another horrendous night with Small. Despite the blackout blind, he was up with the birds 🙁 throwing himself round the bed, under the covers, out….you get the picture. Not quite sure at what…
Gosh, it seems quiet now.
As all the guests have gone 🙁 Small is sitting next to me drawing, and Big is working on a Hoobs book. I’ve caught up on the blogring, the washing is out although I’ve a pile of washing up to do. The weekend didn’t really turn out according to plan. Not that there was all…
round and about
Been working pretty hard this weekend, though not quite as successfully as I’d like, and so we don’t seem to have done much that’s terribly exciting. The good news is that Big is getting much better at entertaining herself, has begun to turn the television off, or request the radio on (! I’ve got a…
A, B, C, D, E, F….
G! Thanks to Dora, Big spent yesterday memorising her alphabet. Or at least attempting to ;). I didn’t realise Dora was the inspiration to begin with – didn’t recognise the song, I’m afraid. And I don’t know it, so my help was limited to writing out the alphabet, lower and upper case, for her to…
Thursday and I've barely blogged!
That’s no good, I won’t be able to remember a thing 😉 Let’s see, Big stayed at Barbara’s after our group on Monday, and was brought back Tues afternoon. I spent Tues morning decluttering, reasonably successfully, and it must have catching, as Tim got to work on the back bedroom. 🙂 Barbara came round for…
A baby step to autonomy?
“What can I do? give me something to do…” “Well, OK, we can do some reading, or some maths” “I don’t want to do that” pause “I’ll go and find myself something to do. I’ll do some drawing.” And she went and got paper (for both of them), crayons (for both of them) and some…
It's all going a bit pear shaped.
Well, there’s been oodles of education all over the place today, plenty of touchy feely moments and even some laughter and craft. And despite that, I’ve got two kids in meltdown, presumably at least partly affected by my own mood drop (yes, I still want to crawl off and cry, even though I’ve just eaten…