Up early this morning with Tarly, so we sat and snuggled on the sofa watching tv together. Davies got up and we sat altogether cuddled up. Lovely 🙂 The children asked to play with the wooden train track today so when I went upstairs to get dressed I brought it back downstairs with me and …
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do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
A bit of a mixed day really, mainly due to my own impatience and the childrens’ tiredness rubbing against each other at times. First thing we sat and did Davies’ Christmas scene stickers. I offered to sit and do the Christmas jewellry with Tarly but she wasn’t interested and wanted to play on barbie.com instead. …
On the 11th of December things that went wrong for me
started with getting up late On the 11th of December things that went wrong for me; Tarly ate tree decorations and I started with getting up late On the 11th of December things that went wrong for me; children wouldn’t get dressed Tarly ate tree decorations and I started with getting up late etc. One …
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All is calm, all is quiet
which is something of a novelty at my house so I’m enjoying the peace 🙂 We’ve had a lovely weekend, Kirsty & James arrived on Friday evening, Saturday morning was filled with making heart shaped sandwiches and transporting all the party stuff over to the hall. I spent a slightly hysterical hour in the hall …
Deck the hallls
with pink fluffy fairy lights! With apologies for using the same song again! Party Preparation Day today, so my poor neglected, mother went out to work two days this week children got to play xbox and watch films all day with occassional fob offs of lickin the bowl or getting some microwave popcorn while I …
Oh the weather outside if frightful
First full day at work today and I LOVED IT! 🙂 I had a ‘proper Mum’ spell first thing this morning of trying to get D&S dressed while drinking tea with one hand and checking emails with the other and persuading them to eat toast – and that was with Ady here too! Lucy lives …
Birthday!
Happy Birthday Alison, lots of love, Ady, Nic, Davies and Scarlett xxxx ps, do let me know if you want a sentimental post about how I first met you, lots of slushy detail about our friendship and how wonderful you are 😉
Birthdays…
Happy Birthday to Jax 🙂
Happy Birthday Scarlett
Four. Whilst there are still many obvious traces of the toddler you have been the glimpses into the past to see the baby I once cradled are more fleeting, more rare and more precious. When you sleep the shadow cast by your eyelashes onto your cheek is still the same, when you curl your fingers …
I spoke not a word, but went straight to my work…
Cos, you know, you can’t be all rowdy at the library! Thanks for all messages, texts, emails and comments – it really meant a lot. 🙂 Not least cos I was actually really quite nervous this morning, partially I’m sure because I hate feeling wrong footed – I like to be super confident, know what …
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Putting this here to remind me
It looks like an interesting site although the competition is for 16 and overs.
Don we now our gay apparel
Davies and Scarlett have been really into playing with each other today. They have periods like this sometimes when they just enjoy each others company so much and play together all day, even when there are other children around. I’m sure school attending siblings are close too but I love the fact that not only …
All the creatures were stirring, particularly the mouse
We had storms here all night, kept me awake for hours. D’you know I truly think that very rare but there just the same sleeplessness is easily my most obvious sign of feeling like a grown up nowadays. Mortage, marriage and motherhood never really did it for me, but lying there awake due to the …
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Does he ride a red nosed reindeer
Today was our day of Christmas shopping. Pre children we would always take the first week of December off work, draw up a rota of where we wanted to go and spend most of the week Christmas shopping. We used to arrive at our chosen shopping destination, split up for an hour or so, meet …
A ’54 convertible too, light blue
Hey, it’s DECEMBER!!!! 🙂 Deck the halls, open the advent calendar and break out the chocolate liqueurs and brandy snaps! Had one of those days when it all felt a bit bordering on the hysterical today, I get them sometimes. I’m sure if things had been different I could have been a manic depressive, instead …
Reassured
I suddenly realised that all the things on my list of things I needed to get done before December sort of had to be done today today. So we planned on leaving the house at 9am, which was an impressive aim given I didn’t get up til gone 8am. But we would have pulled it …
Blood, sweat and tears
None of the above! Alison and children arrived (very) late on Monday night. Ady had already gone up to bed and I’d already drunk plenty of wine to keep me awake while listening to all the music videos I linked to (and maybe done some dancing round the lounge too :lol:). Davies and Scarlett hadn’t …
Killing time…
I simply can’t work out how to get ‘free’ music so I’m satisfying my clompy DM footed meander down memory lane with youtube 🙂 Stevie Nicks – Rooms on Fire James – Sit Down EMF – Unbelievable KLF – 3am Eternal – this one takes me back so quick I lose my breath! KLF – …
Now because I’m trying to push that youtube clip down a bit
because it is cocking up my template I’ll blog about today now. Also because we have house guests arriving later and I have not remotely prepared for them so I’ll not get the chance to blog later. I didn’t do a lot this morning, mainly because I got up really late (I wasn’t actually asleep, …
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That maths post then…
Way back when I first started to think about Home Education I spent lots of money amassing the various ‘tools’ I thought I’d require in order to do it properly. These included some things which have indeed proved useful – a laminator, a subscription to enchanted learning, a blog ;), membership to all the various …