Tag: Small steps
What no Potter?!
This must be the first day for really quite a while that I have neither heard Stephen Fry, nor seen Daniel Radcliffe on a screen nearby. Kids haven’t even done any reading of that today that I know of, although when they went out to play they both took cloaks and wands 😉 Knowing that…
Yet more boring boxes
Have spent another day processing boxes – Tim removed a stack to go to garage at old house, and tomorrow I must remove some of the steadily accumulating charity shop and rubbish stuff or I’m going to run out of places to put boxes to process. It feels slightly liberating, although I feel terribly guilty…
spinning in circles.
Yesterday I got organised in the morning and took Tim’s car into town, drove it round the town centre three times, then gave up, parked it in a vacant space on a cross road, and carried four box loads of charity shop stuff to the Forget Me Not trust shop on the main road. Each…
I am so tired
again. Still. Bleargh. Anyway, after lunch, Small listened to Harry Potter for approx 5 hours (!) and is now well on his way through the Goblet of Fire, which is cheering Big up as they may get to watch the film soon 🙂 I spent some time in Small’s bedroom, trying to sort and discard…
Saturday is party day
for Big at least 🙂 Knowing that she had to be offthepath for 1pm I dragged myself out of bed in plenty of time to get Big going. It turned out to be in plenty of time to have many running battles, on what to wear, how to speak to ppl, when to get dressed…
the rest of the day.
Big has been attached to the couch, reading Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. She finished it this evening, and pronounced it very sad, thus proving she’s made of sterner stuff than me, as I wept copiously 🙁 She wants to discuss it, but it’s a bit difficult as I don’t want her to blow…
Backdating…
Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds 🙂 Can’t be bothered to change the date though! After the children get bored they move on to what is a more productive phase, depending on how you look at it. For…
Reading levels again.
Out of interest, following the Harry Potter fest, I revisited the reading tests that I did in December with the offspring. Small now gets about half the words in each box up to 88, never missing more than a couple in a row, although he declined to go any further (grade 8 month 8 –…
Boredom is good for them.
Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is better. Big has played recorder and piano two days running, and they are both still…
Unsuccessful charity shop scouring
Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh well, we are sorted from the library right atm, I just wanted to be sure…