The first time we went to Legoland was September 2004. Me and the kids have been at least five times since, today was Ady’s third time. Here we are 3 years ago: Here we are today: Things you may notice: 1 My hair is shorter now 2 We all look older, this is most noticeable …
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It’s started!
We were sitting watching TV tonight and I commented on something and Ady took on a superior tone and proclaimed ‘well when you’re on TV and…’ before he saw my face, realised just what he’d said and we both fell about laughing. I’m so not going to let him get all starry and refuse to …
By popular demand
Well okay, Allie said she liked looking at them, Si commented that Tarly hadn’t changed much and I liked looking back at old baby pics of my once-upon-a-baby’s I thought I’d dredge up a few more: Who’s this then? and this? An easier one Awww and a personal favourite
Probably covered it really already
Cinema this morning, lunch and play with toy animals followed by visit to the park where Davies learnt to climb onto the metal tube on the climbing frame and then from that onto the pitched roof. Which he failed to manage to climb down from. Three times 🙄 :lol:. Home for tea for Davies then …
Educatin’ the masses
We’ve just been to the park. I tend to avoid parks generally to be honest, I don’t like them much but if I am to be seen in one it is almost always during school hours when it’s just us and the odd toddler. But today when we’d got back from the cinema and had …
Processing
We went to the cinema this morning for the first of the films we’ve booked to see through filmeducation over the next week or so. Today we saw Earth which was probably the one I was least expecting the children to sit quietly through as its a documentary rather than an animation or a story. …
Not very productive but probably quite needed
We had a quiet day at home today. We painted some of the airdrying clay stuff that had dried, watched ‘Beat the Boss’, ‘The Really Wild Show’ and various other CBBC shows followed by Lassie, which neither of the children were interested in so we gave up on and then ‘Meet The Robinsons’. We made …
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Woo hoo big kids!
When I was younger if I ever imagined myself as a parent (which I tried not to, to be honest!) it was always as a mother of children, rather than babies. I can’t say I hated every moment of Davies and Scarletts’ babyhoods because of course I didn’t, but it was on the whole something …
Reasons to be cheerful…
I had a nice long lie in this morning. Scarlett was up early but came and got into bed with me when Ady went to work, and then got back up and went downstairs with Davies when he got up. I got up to find them happily Xboxing so I pootled about getting washing done …
Just another quiet weekend
Friday – I worked all day and Ady was off all day at home with the children. They put Freddie, Wobble and Punzel into two cat carriers and took them over to our friend Bruce’s farm. Apparently they had a great time there playing with the farm dog, cows, chickens, ducks, geese, donkey and horses …
Almost qualified as an Autumn Walk ;)
We’ve had a lovely day today, fairly spur of the moment last week I went through my diary and marked out a couple of free days this month and put a couple of suggested events in the Sussex newsletter and on the local Home Ed yahoo list. Today’s was Tilgate Park a council run park …
Another day, another media appearance!
When I got to work this morning I checked out the copy of the local council freebie paper as Lucy had told me Davies and Scarlett were on the front cover. Sure enough there they were. And two of my colleagues had spotted them too so were laughing at me over how Ady’s pictures had …
Over socialised
Our own personal brand of Home Education is very much based on time spent together, talking, just being and living really. I rarely fret about educational provision just because it’s hard to stop Davies and Scarlett asking an almost constant flow of questions, or making observations, or using stuff they see to illustrate a point …
Rainy days on Mondays
A very efficient morning today with me waking early enough to justify reading in bed for half an hour and finishing a book before getting up and finally putting away a couple of baskets of washing that has been cluttering the bedroom for ages. The children came and helped and it was all done very …
Busy weekend
We had lots happening this weekend and me and the children were still pretty tired from London on Friday, so with me falling asleep on the sofa last night while pretending to watch Hot Fuzz I didn’t get round to blogging. Yesterday was Big Monthly Food Shop day so I wrote the month’s menu and …
A day in ‘the smoke’
We headed off to London today. We used to go up fairly regularly for a while but it petered off last year with just one or two visits and this year I don’t think we’ve been at all. Actually I’d conclude from today that Davies and Scarlett are in a period of requiring two adults …
Worky work work
For me all day. Which means I don’t really know what went on at home. I know the geomags and the toy cars were played with. I know that in the afternoon Davies and Scarlett created a zoo. I know this because I was greeted at the gate with a sign saying ‘soo’ made by …
The shoe quest continues…
We were all up quite early this morning and breakfast was an easily organised affair as I’d picked up some reduced croissants at the supermarket last night – two almond and two chocolate. I’d have put money on Ady and Davies wanting the chocolate ones, I prefer almond and Scarlett usually has whatever I’m having, …
Yay!
Made about sixty quid on all my ebay listings, that’ll pay for Davies’ Legoland birthday treat visit in a couple of weeks :).
Shoes, Snipping and Swimming
We now have two definite crowers aka Sunday dinners here. Still holding out hope that Freddie is a hen though and doing daily egg searches. Punzel (who is on the most borrowed time) did a bit of a runner today – the children chased him over the low wall and onto the grass verge outside …