Tag: Small steps
thank you all
done. And home again. Big is playing chess with Tim, and Small is learning backgammon from me (his choice) except he’s gone for a comfort break. It’s been a very long day and I have a stinking headache – I may be back later, but if not I just wanted to say thank you to…
too many tears
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today – went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to…
data protection irritation.
Tonight I made the mistake of trying to do two things at once in a phonecall to a financial institution. I said I wanted to make a withdrawal and update my address details – at which point I was informed that I couldn’t make any withdrawal because I’d moved. Huh? If I hadn’t told them,…
sleepy saturday
the start of my morning was very similar to Jan’s apart from the fact that we don’t have a dishwasher so that was more of a manual operation. 😉 Oh, and the children had already got themselves up and breakfasted. Oh, and we don’t have a dog. OK, so I did washing and breadmaking 😀…
more blogging
end of first week with new member of staff on board – we’ve got by through quite a challenging week so that’s gone fairly well. I’m beginning to feel on top of classroom management on some days – for some reason Thursday seems to go a bit pear shaped, obviously need to work harder then.…
birthday walk (the montessori way).
First of all, gather your children into an ellipse, sitting on chairs in the children’s house. Then you can start 🙂 The 29th May 2003 was a very special day – that was the day that Small was born! We’re going to do a birthday walk – what do we need? A candle. What’s the…
birthdays, beds and other stuff.
We’ve had two birthdays this week, as mentioned previously, so there have been drawn out celebrations. After thursday, which was multiply blogged, on friday we met my mother at M’hell, partly for the purposes of buying wedding wear as my sister’s nuptials are approaching. (This is my sole remaining unmarried sister, so unless they start…
Happy Birthday Small
5 years old today. Haven’t told him he doesn’t actually notch up 5 years til this evening, as I don’t think he could have waited that long for presents! He did wait until after 9, which surprised me rather, I’d expected to be woken up shortly after 7, but there you go. And now they…
Twitter is over capacity.
“Too many tweets! We’ll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon.” Wonder how many of the tweets are to do with it not working properly? They really don’t seem to be scaling very well – anyone got any other recommendations? Didn’t make it out to the scrapstore – given that…
What a difference a day makes
when you leave your laptop switched off 🙂 It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping after the grots…