Ady’s back – hurrah! A bad night really – went up at 11 and dropped off to sleep with book still in hand, woke at midnight when Ady rang to say goodnight and then again at 3am when Teeny awoke. Did musical beds for two hours until we both fell asleep again at about 5.15am …
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A quick PS Forgot to add two quite important things – the first was the hugely eduational lesson Monster had with the make your own chocolate croissants. As well as making then and watching them in the oven and smelling them cooking to decide when they were ready we also talked about the differences that …
A nice day but missing my baby! The grown up one that is! All up from fairly early – Ady at 4.30am to leave for NEC, Teeny woke me at 4.45am and after saying goodbye to Ady we went back to bed and finally fell asleep again at about 5.30am, Monster woke at 6.30 and …
Imagine the stereotype of a Home Educator – we met them today!! Hope that statement doesn’t offend anyone but I’m sure most of us would concede that there is a perception of people who Home Educate that we fit into a certain mould. We went to an Activeo event (local HE organisation) today at someone’s …
it went well! Bad stuff first then – another DREADFUL night! Monster woke at about 12.30 and I persuaded him to let me get into his bed where I stayed till he woke me to swap places with him (he was on the wall side I was on the outside), when he had finally gone …
tomorrow I get to put on a suit and talk to grown ups!I am off tomorrow for my first ‘real’ days work in eons! I have planned what I’m wearing, organised my briefcase and handbag, packed spare clothes, nappies, refreshments, pyjamas and milk (incase of late return) for children who are spending the day with …
Sleep deprived Nic does not a good mummy make!A dreadful night with Teeny last night – she woke around 1.30am (and I had been using my reconnection to broadband to the max and not gone to bed till gone twelve!), brought her into our bed, she wriggled and whinged so I put her back in …
Barbecues rule!Last nights barbecue was nice, I was a bit quiet and thoughtful although not really sure why and my mum said a couple of things which really got my back up – the main one was right at the end of the evening when she asked how the Activeo event had gone earlier in …
I is for idea, ice, if, ill, idol, idle, imagine, imp, invisible, infant, injection, insane (and insania!), ink, insect, instruments, intelligent, interrupt, inviye, iron, itch, ireland and indiaYep, I found the dictionary and although I admit to not being sure how exactly we are going to incorporate (another one!) these into the scrapbook its a …
An EXCELLENT day today – really reinforced the fact we are doing the right thing…We blew the library out in favour of starting the letter of the week scrapbook and letting Teeny have a nap so they would be on better form for the HE group this afternoon. I did some work of my own …
not super clear but its an icthyosaurus and an iguanadon with info about them – well we knew dinosaurs would be playing a big part in the scrapbook! not sure how we’ll deal with x, y and z!
cut out shapes (by me!) glued into place (by Monster) to make some i words
Monster doing the tidying!
So there’s me, Nic the alternative lifestyle recruiter…D’yo know, I’m so not a hippy, for heavens sake I’m actually a very materialistic and shallow kinda girl but somehow whenever we spend time with my friend Rachel I turn into some sort of advocate for all things alternative in life, the universe and child rearing! In …
We’re almost ‘real’ HEers y’know!Yesterday’s Activeo event went really well for us. There was only Chris and Julie (Ady’s brother) and one other lady and her two children there which was probably nice for our first one as we all felt really comfortable. Teeny played well with the twins and the other two children were …
A great bank holiday weekend all round really…Yesterday was really nice, we finally dug out our old tower from the old computer and took it round for my brother, which resulted in an arrangement to meet my parents for a walk later in the day weather permitting, then we drove over to our friends farm. …
Monster and Teeny
ooh its been a good one! Yesterday evening was all it promised to be – even though I knew how Friends would end (tried to be strong but had to read the ending after it aired in the US in one of my many weekly celeb gossip mags) it still made me cry. BB5 was …
Grr just wiped a wet finger across my mouse glider thingy on the laptop! Well no pics cos I forgot to take the camera and actually no slagging off my mother either as we had a really nice day – hurrah! One of those ones which is nothing mentionable but nice in its uneventfulness. She …
(assumes Brummie accent) Day one in the Goddard house and…. Sorry but I am just soooo excited about Big Brother starting tomorrow I can’t contain myself!!! and the last ever Friends ever too- ooh channel four with this evening of televisual treats you are really spoiling us…. Anyway, today was good and bad, lovely and …