Ok so it’s not quite Merry’s house round here…

But I have sat and packed up 25 parcels of ebay sales tonight, which netted me over £100 so that has indeed paid for one of the kids’ DSs for Christmas. Hurrah :).

I worked today, it was quite slow and dragged a bit really, can’t quite believe I will have been there a year next week. There is still tweaking to do with making me work ideal for all of us but Ady and I have been talking about that tonight and hopefully we can make a few changes to get it smoother. I’d been planning to email a Home Edder I know who also childminds just to find out a bit more about childminders for HE children but given she knows noone suitable locally, certainly who wouldn’t end up being the route by which we became known and also the charges for two children would pretty much equal my hourly wage that isn’t going to be an option really. Ah well new year always brings about change doesn’t it, we’ll see what changes the coming one has in store.

I’ve also been pondering our weekly activities set up the last few days and trying to decide if everything we do works for us and if not what could we do to change that too. Again, I’ve a few thoughts which I’ll chat through with Davies and Scarlett and try and come to some conclusions, but life’s been feeling just a bit too full and harried this last few months and I want to make sure that remains a good thing rather than becomming something that characterises our days too much and starts to get in the way of just living. Scarlett is due to start 2 evening things a week after Christmas which will only leave one weekday night a week that we don’t have a committment for, which seems slightly excessive somehow. When we factor in my working too it begins to limit the time we actually have for doing all those wild and free things that for us at least, home education is supposed to be about. Recently I’ve been struggling to fit things in with any less than about 3 weeks notice in advance and there is a balance between busy and just crazy which I think we are maybe not striking quite right at the moment.

So there you are, a blog post which managed to be about pretty much nothing and probably raised more questions than it answered. Which quite probably describes my state of mind fairly well atm. Weekend coming up, that might help.