Well that’s a result then! 6.30pm, both children in bed asleep, house is tidied and hoovered, all washing done and drying, have achieved several items on my list (cleaned bathroom, written grovelling letter, rung round several possible venues for WAG group’s new home etc) and in the last 15 minutes I have finally got out the knitting needles and wool my Mum gave me months ago and with the aid of a library book re-discovered how to knit 🙂 Very basic and judging by how laboriously the book got me casting on and knitting a few rows I don’ think my relationship with said book will be a long and happy one. If I bring my sticks and yarn to Melrose does anyone fancy teaching me some more complicated stuff? I’m a quick learner, I just need to watch someone doing it for real instead of looking at pictures of hands!
Kids will both probably be up and bouncing around by midnight, but frankly if they get 12 hours sleep and I’m up with them again at 6.30am I won’t mind if they sleep through.
I’ve been a shouty and intolerant mother today. But that is because I am tired and impatient and they are tired and horrid, so we all parted friends and I think tomorrow will be better. We did get a bit of educational stuff done. Davies finally tried out the next DK Play and Learn cd rom – which is for 5-7 year olds. Admittedly some of it was beyond him due to the instructions being written as opposed to spoken but once I read them out he was just fine. His mouse control is excellent now and I was really pleased to see him counting something on screen using the mouse pointed instead of touching it with his fingers 🙂 He is really starting to recognise numbers and letters at last too, so hopefully the time is right for that 100 Easy lessons book if it ever gets here!
More playing with The Incredibles, some colouring and drawing, some dressing up and some watching of TV and that’s been our day really. My plan now is to spend an hour on my online learning course, cook myself some dinner and then maybe have a quick trawl round the ring before an earlyish night. You may or may not hear from me again this evening.
Well done Nic. What course are you doing by the way – you keep mentioning it is an online learning course but learning what?
It’s with http://www.vision2learn.com and I’m doing a web entrepreneur course. All free and so far I’ve learnt quite a bit. I am dreadful for having a wild burst of activity on it and doing loads and then forgetting about it for weeks though 🙂 The courses are more aimed at current employees bettering themselves and I believe Jax applied for one which they had no tutor for 🙁 There is not a second one which appeals to me to do after this one, but it’s a good exercise in using my brain again 🙂
I tried to sign up for that one as well, but they don’t offer courses to people living in Scotland. Which seems odd to me, given it’s web based, isn’t it. Thinks – maybe I should just give a false address – did they actually send you anything in the ordinary post?
Yeah, I applied for some web wizard one – thought it would be dead easy to do and a useful addition to my cv, but they told me there was nowhere near me doing it – don’t understand that given that it’s supposed to be online, and what are they doing advertising it that way? Annoys me something rotten.
I am actually a ‘student’ at Croydon college although i will never need to attend there. not at all sure why they need to group it geographically, if anyone wants to use my address to get on the course and I’ll forward the stuff on please let me know.