Tag: Small steps
The games people play
I thought Tim was setting his alarm, he thought I was setting mine, and the upshot of it all was I woke up at 10.50 this morning 🙂 I still seem tired this evening, dunno what’s going on with me atm. Anyway, by the time we’d pootled around a bit it was lunchtime and then…
And tomorrow?
The last question of tonight, from both children, was exactly the same as last night. What will we do tomorrow? But first, what did we do today? Well, I had a lazy morning feeling sorry for myself. I’m having a lot of problems with my hip atm, not quite sure whether it’s a reaction to…
Soft skills
Small appears to have missed out on development of a lot of so called soft skills so far. Not that I think many 5 year old boys have many of them tbh, but it is particularly disappointing that three years at a montessori school, instead of producing us a child who tidies up automatically at…
And the rest of the day.
That’s the third day running we’ve gone into town. It’s about half a mile there and back, with hills to add that little bit of extra, and of course on Monday, we did the library as well, granted that’s only around the corner, but still, it’s a walk. It means despite the grotty weather, we’ve…
Resistance is futile.
Small is continuing with his reading – he has been practising (probably without realising it) while reading his new Power Rangers Annual 2009: Operation Overdrive (Annual) (£1 from Tesco bargain. Although I wish I’d bought more copies of the Doctor Who ones that I picked up for step nephews, as they’d all gone by the…
Mixed day
After the post this morning we retired to the kitchen for some more maths. Small did another 20 additions with the base 10 blocks, and we found what level he begins to struggle at, so now we know where we need to be working 🙂 Big was another story. We’d been doing fractions at school,…
Cookbook correction
It’s this one: The Children’s Step-by-step Cook Book – I found it this morning in one of the stashes of stuff still unhomed after the christmas excess. She was very pleased to see it, but too busy making flowers to look through for a recipe for lunch, so I guess it’s sandwiches again. Small agreed…
A very quiet day
Today has been a very quiet day, not least because when I went to get up to sort out the table Small had “poured milk all over!”, I made it to the landing, grabbed my dressing gown off the rail and then fell over, very ungracefully and in slow motion, backwards, staggering back through the…
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
Christmas no 2 and a birthday.
It’s Princess’s birthday today, so we gathered in a softplay area and gave her presents. We gave her a pack of books and an England supporter kit, and other ppl just kept on giving. I lost count of how many presents there were, took up several bags when we went to carry them all out…