Tag: Doodling, drawing and decoration.
The personal stuff
Went to doctor’s about Small this morning, referral to community paediatrician set in motion. Not sure what they do, but there you go. That was after I’d slept in, I’m not sleeping well during the night, so given that I’d arranged for Tim to get up with the children, when he did, I turned over.…
Big wants to learn
Victorions Where we live Math’s Spelling Sionce a new langwig? Craft Poetry Accordingly, her library haul included two books on toys, Toys (What Was It Like in the Past?) and Look Inside a Victorian Toyshop. I found Seashore (Usborne Nature Trail) which I thought might help with learning more of the area around where we…
Looking at bikes.
Can’t actually remember what went on this morning (maybe there’s a drawback to not brightkiting after all 😉 ) although I’m sure there was something that I was planning on blogging. Then just before lunchtime we decided we’d walk out with Tim to look at bikes at the other independent bikeshop in town. Tim wanted…
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…
Fingertips head stand
Just seen this on tv and think it’s a possible present make so dumping it here so we don’t forget the link 🙂
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…
Expensive day
With Big due to go to Brownies tonight, thought I ought to go out and get her something different for her footwear than the boots she’s been wearing all winter. As she’s usually very quick to tell me if there’s a problem, I really wasn’t expecting to be told that her feet had grown a…
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,…
Sunny day with added playdough.
Once again the main focus to the day as far as the children were concerned was playdough. They played a long (approx 2 1/2 hour) game which involved them making things and selling them in their imaginary shop. Eventually they got bored of this, and came to tell me what a wonderful day they had…