I don’t know whether Big got the idea from one of her friends or whether she’s come up with it more or less independently, but last night she started to make herself a tick list. Of course, we did have ticklists here briefly, but that was a while ago, and they didn’t last long.
Today though, they are in. Not multi-coloured, but very organised, and completely self chosen. And when she’d finally got it all written up to her satisfaction (which took a while, given I couldn’t get the scanner to work, and then when it did it turned out the pencil wasn’t dark enough, so she had to start over in pen, and she wanted to make sure everything was spelt correctly) she set to to actually do some of the stuff on it.
Including a page of decimal addition sums. 😯 (and whispers – which she got all right. Maybe it’s clicking, finally!) So there was handwriting, and spelling, IT, and maths, rookie lifeguard fact revision and she wants to go out and buy stationery! And of course this evening she read, and there was computing, much more Wallace and Gromitting (which must be good for something, though I’m not sure what precisely, though at least we do all now know what a stirling engine is and how it works) and I think some television.
Me, I mainly panicked. The increasingly firm letters from HMRC gave way on Friday to get your act together or we’re sending the bailiffs in. The irony being that I doubt very much that I owe them any more than a few sheets of paper, but it’s finding all the bits of paper to fill in the dratted forms, and then there’s the phobia of form filling that I have…
you will understand, I feel, when I explain that I did somehow find the time and energy to clean the kitchen table, put away washing, put washing through, go for a run, do more washing up and various other boring little tasks I’ve been avoiding *before* I made the HMRC phonecall!
So that was a Monday. And I didn’t complete half of what I’d meant to, but the baby barely slept and I’ve appts tomorrow, so I must get on. G’night.
(ps thank you, a huge warm cuddly thank you, to all my wonderful friends who sponsored me on my run. My total stands at £105 now, which is fabulous.)
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