I worked this morning which was all quite busy. I had my quarterly review and updated my boss on my progress on various tasks, I spent some time sorting out fines for a nursery which has lost 22 books and dealing with the paperwork for various books borrowed and being sent to other libaries out …
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Curriculum
Davies, Scarlett and I have seen the error of our ways. We’ve come to terms with the fact that we’ve been doing this Home Ed lark all wrong. What with our non planning, no idea what we’ll be doing next week let alone next year, haphazzard approach to the whole thing. No broad and balanced, …
Graduating from Forest School
Yesterday was the tenth and last session of Forest School. Scarlett didn’t actually want me to go up there as I am mean and rather than allow her and Davies to spent the 3 hours running off in the woods I insist they sit down, learn from the rangers and do the activities. I’ve spent …
Roo-de-lallies
Ady woke me this morning before he left to say two chicks had hatched. We’ve had 11 eggs in the incbubator – six were from a farm we went to on Open Farm Sunday and are lovely little golden pekin bantams, the other five were from our own hens, a mix of speckedly and brown …
Word is out…
I attempted to have a lie in and catch up on sleep this morning. I didn’t really manage it as it was gone 3am before I was asleep and Tarly was in bed with me before 8am being bouncey and perky and Scarletty. Davies and Ady had gone to the allotment to do early morning …
have you heard?
Michael Jackson’s dead! Davies and I stayed up til nearly 3am watching the news on Friday morning. So we didn’t get up too early on Friday morning and were slightly relieved to have an email from Tasha cancelling our weather dependent plans to meet up at the paddling pool at the park. Instead we had …
Trying
Scarlett didn’t want me to go to work this morning. She didn’t want to stay at Badgers last night either and every so often she does this faux clingy thing which always leaves me wondering if she genuinely feels a bit wobbly or is doing it for effect. Fortunately she was staying in her own …
Picking
Today was a much rearranged day with us having various plans that got variously changed. It all revolved around a litter picking activity which Davies and Scarlett wanted to do for their RSPB WAA stuff. They had long since decided to pick litter up along the alleyways that formed their artwork display at the library …
Worth fighting for…
Today we’ve had another perfect Home Ed day. One where all of us realise just why we’ve made an active choice to live our lives the way we do. One that makes the sacrifices and the compromises worthwhile and reminds us that this is precisely where we want to be, who we want to be …
If you don’t know and I don’t know
A much needed lazier start to the morning and as the children were happily engrossed in their DSs and I had plenty of things to be getting on with we decided to stay home this morning. I managed to process some laundry, send some emails that were overdue and plough through a towering pile of …
Spiky on Sunday
Fathers Day and my Granny’s birthday here today. Davies and Scarlett were up early with Ady to give him some paintings they’d done for him and a little cardboard tool box (marked ‘torl box’) Davies had made and filled with chocolates. No idea where he bought into the Dad’s tool box stereotype mind you as …
Hole in the head?
Back before Davies hit me with the week long Badger camp I was stressing about Scarlett going on a day trip to Drusillas with Rainbows. I sort of shelved that anxiety but this morning it all came flooding back as we dropped her off at the Guide Hall. She suddenly looked really tiny, practically newborn …
So what, I’m still a rock star
well Baby Rhyme time singer at least 😉 Work all day for me today. I found it hard to get up this morning as rather than going to bed when I finished blogging I got distracted by a commotion outside of something squeaking and looked out the window to see a fox chasing what I …
Knit and natter
Davies spent some time this morning realising he could play additional games to unlock little video clips on his W&G x box game including interviews with Nick Parks, clips of some of the films and ‘making of’ bits so he was very happily busy with that. Scarlett did some more ‘body art’ on my feet …
Cava fuelled reminising
Ady and I have been together for 16 years today. I was a fairly regular diary-keeper back then, hey I was 19, it’s what we did before t’internet and facebook and blogs ;)and I’ve just dug out the diary entry for 16 years ago. I won’t type it out, it’s embarrassing and actually possibly not …
Earth to table in two hours
Forest school this morning – today was week 8 of 10, so only two more after this. I wasn’t planning on staying although I didn’t have anything else to do so was intending to just sit in my car in the carpark and read my book. But I got chatting to a couple of the …
What’s new pussycat?
Ady was listening to the famous Tom Jones song in the kitchen earlier and as I walked past I said to him ‘so what is new Pussycat?’ and carried on back to the lounge. Cue Davies a few minutes later delivering a handwritten note: ‘wel mummy the fining wirih is noo piseckat is tat Davies …
Puppets and weeds
Last weekend when we picked D and S up from Magic Lantern I picked up a leaflet about a puppet show at the theatre as part of the Adur Festival. It’s a two week festival for the very local area we live in and the reason for the various library events I’ve been working at, …
Mooching morning, active afternoon
I slept in this morning, which was much needed 🙂 We didn’t have any plans for today so I happily spent the morning on the sofa online uploading photos and reading lots of blogs and forums and email lists about the review and stuff. Davies spent a couple of hours on the xbox and managed …
Bee style busy
Friday was our annual trip to Ardingly for the South of England Show. Davies, Scarlett and I have been every year for the last 4 or even 5 years and this year Ady took a day’s leave from work to join us which was really nice :). I’d managed to consume a whole bottle of …