Tag: reeling, writhing
Drat, this is Saturday's post…
I seem to be permanently a day behind! Let’s see, we’ve had a really lazy day. Feeling a bit rough myself, and sky’s really grey, so pjs were the order of the day, and taking it easy. Lots of imaginative play meant that the floor went missing very early on, and didn’t reappear til I…
Reading update
Big has finished her first proper reading book. We were going for a page a day, and started it, um, a few days ago edited to add, checked back, was only Friday!, but today we got to a stretch where about 4 pages were pretty much the same, so we powered through it in one…
Dinner by candlelight
and requests for hothousing. It was an odd day yesterday. Um, struggling to remember much of it – the drawback of regular blogging I think, as usually I don’t have to apply my memory, I can just read back. Do know that my parents popped round, seemed to be wanting to discuss the HE thing,…
The good, the bad and the downright ugly.
Good: Primary geography sparking off map activity this morning, lots of jigsaw activity for both of them, including the 20 Word Puzzles that we’ve had for ages (that’ll be a reading activity then), cooking tea together. Getting an hour on my own with Small in the library (aw, he took his book to the counter…
Ticking the boxes, and pondering.
Better get a cup of tea and a chair, it’s a long one 😉 Been a lovely day today, which is a huge improvement on the rest of the week. Well, it was OK when Mimi was round the other day, the smalls were no trouble, but Big and I are going through one of…
Sigh
Big has just stropped off to her room, slamming all possible doors, screaming “but I want to read!” This would be because I attempted a new strategy with the reading lesson, called quit while you are ahead, in which as soon as she started messing about and not trying, I said “well done, lovely, we’ll…
“Internet romances never work out.â€
Hm. Guess I’m not going to list NCIS as the font of all wisdom then 😉 Let’s see, what have we done today? More primary history. Another reading lesson, another few grey hairs. Discussed it with Kirsty later, and decided a new approach is required – I’m getting locked into another of those string pulling…
Achievements of the day
We’ll start with the darker ones so that we can end on a high note. Major achievement – getting through the day without throttling either child or bursting into tears. Not quite sure what’s the matter with me atm, must be partly stress related to the fact that I *still* haven’t heard about the results…
Where's Kevin gone????
Aargh, they changed everything on CBeebies, and for the first time in ages we’ve got Nick Jr on at bedtime – where’s Kevin and the bedtime song? What’s a Jimmer Jammer when it’s at home? Although it has to be said that Small seemed to rather enjoy it, he was bopping away with the best…
Reading – or at least learning to.
The reading thing has become even more of an issue this week, with two visits from A (now at school and presumably doing something to learn to read 😉 ) prompting Big to declare that she can read, just in her head. I don’t like this at all – it indicates to me that she…