is not going to be a quick or easy solution it would appear. Big is of the opinion that if I am here, I am here solely for her entertainment. And Small, somewhere in the last few months has become much less self contained than he used to be – more tantrums for the smallest of reasons, and it’s difficult to read code when someone is screaming in the vicinity.
Anyway, we’ll figure it out. We get another practise run on Monday, as my car is in the garage, so I’m working from home. I’ve just been given a proper project to lead, so I’ll be spending the weekend reading the spec and working out what questions I need to ask come Monday morning 😉
So, I did require some education to go on today. I’m beginning to feel a bit antsy that our arrangement at the moment is not optimum for the autonomous style we had previously sort of been following. Particularly wrt maths and reading, which I kind of feel are central. So Big eventually gave in and sat down and flew through two pages of the much maligned Exeter maths book, that’s been on the go since February now, and I’m getting a bit tired of it. I’ve worked out that she needs to do two pages a day to finish it by her original target, so two pages a day is what she is going to do. Only took about 90 minutes today :-/ And there wasn’t time and energy enough for reading after that, so I got them painting out instead.
I get brownie points for that anyway. And for home cooking dinner. And if I get the washing hung up in the bathroom (don’t think freezing it dry outside would work somehow) I can go to bed knowing that I’m slightly up on tomorrow’s chores.
Oh, and continuing the occasional theme of abusing well loved bedtime stories, today we have had Small boy says Blue…
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Hannah was 7 before I could truly work at home without having childcare there. I’ve always done it, (worked from home) but until then it was either a middle-of-the-night thing, or Bob was around, or I paid a teenager to play with her while I worked. Now, while I wouldn’t dream of working all day with no one around for her, I can do my two hours every morning, and it’s no hassle. Although I try to do at least an hour of it before she gets up, tbh.
Freeze dried washing – Well they can freeze dry coffee so who knows? …
J uses the Exeter maths books too, I like them because they stretch him, he just runs through the normal math books for his age (are they ‘much maligned’ just by Big or by other home edders?). J does a page a day atm, but I have just told him he needs to do a bit more as well as we are well behind – mostly due to slack mum syndrome 😉
Allegedly freeze drying the washing helps get it soft!
Our Exeter maths books are lying in some drawer somewhere. Suppose I should let them loose again…
They are just much maligned here – I very much liked them when we first got them, but having them as the cause of many battles (although just about anything is the cause of battles here atm 🙁 ) has rather put me off them.
Its frozen but its beautiful!
You’ll be wanting me to take your lot to Bradway then?
the phrase ‘pick your battles wisely’ springs to mind…
WE have frozen washing here… a whole line full of it that I really can’t quite work up the energy to rescue!