Tag: Small steps
(more) kindness of passing strangers.
Thursday was hot. So hot that I decided it was probably just as well that we weren’t going to the cloth place as well as Small’s Beaver sausage sizzle, as it would probably be way too much for them. So instead we had a quiet day at home, apart from the screaming 🙁 There were…
Science in the sun.
Today we had a day round at WF house planned, with added science experiments. So I got up at 8 to sort out contribution to bring and share lunch, as well as sorting out washing and so on. In the end my lunch contribution was courtesy of the coop, I am always somewhat uninspired, and…
Midwife, library and swimming.
Trying morning on Tuesday with Big, who is well into the pre teen hormone surge and seems determined to exploit it. Children argued extensively over DVDs – beginning to wish I hadn’t bothered bringing the box in from the garage, I thought they’d be pleased to see it. Neither of them wanted to attend the…
Sun, foghorns, fog, sun, Beavers.
I am not used to this coastal microclimate. We started the day with baking sunshine, so I advised the children to get their playing outside done early so they could retreat to a dvd later, and made sure that I got two loads of washing down and out on the line quickly. Despite the sunshine,…
Sunday at Kentwell
Up early on Sunday as we had a freecycler coming round to collect two divan bases from the garage. In the end she took all three, and now we have half a garage clear. And Tim will be taking L’s stuff up to her in a couple of days, so that’ll be another couple of…
Saturday beach trip
As previously mentioned, L needed a lie in on Sat morning, something to do with us all staying up far too late chatting 🙂 Plus she arrived here with a stinking head cold, and while she could have done with some pampering and lying around time, instead she had these two smallish ppl desperate for…
Mainly quiet but with added scan excitement.
The children are thrilled with the presence of L, their big sister, and consequently ignored my existence all yesterday morning. Not a big problem as far as I’m concerned 😉 It’s great that they adore us so much, and lovely that she reciprocates 🙂 By lunchtime though I was trying to wrangle them into getting…
Jax the fire marshal
Forest school yesterday, and the first time that we had a clash on car requirements, as Tim had arranged to go pick up L from London at the same time as forest school. Fortunately Em has three spare seats in her car, so Tim dropped us there on his way and we got a lift.…
Fractious day
Having done the classic thing of waiting for my deadline to finish my TMA work, I really needed to get stuck in this morning. Which of course meant that the children picked up on this desire to do otherwise than pay them attention, and they were all over me and the living room in annoying…
Quiet day, followed by measuring, patterns and art on the beach.
Yesterday I wasn’t much up for interaction, and Tim took the children out for an hour to give me some time and space. I think they had rather a good time of it at a nearby copse of trees with associated playground. I got stuck into my maths, which was quite good for taking my…