A Happy Easter had by one and all in the Goddard house. Granny and Grandad arrived for their last ever vist up here (we move back down there in just over two weeks) on Friday – to much excitement from Monster and Teeny (even Teeny recognised them this time – although she flatly refused to …
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a pretty good couple of days here – yesterday Lynda was around for most if it which meant me and Ady achieved loads of moving stuff – repacked basement boxes and got them down from 22 to 7 – huge achievement and wonder quite how we accumulated so much cr*p in the first place! We …
Not much educatin’ gone on here today! Well thats not strictly true actuall! Me and Ady went to a work meeting, whcih went very well, then we came home and he got the phonecall officially offering him his new job, I had a long and in depth phonecall with boss lady – result is that …
A really good day today – spent nearly two hours on the phone to a friend who I met at baby clinic when I had Monster. She has a son a couple of months older than Monster. She is thrilled we are coming home, really looking forward to getting together every week again and is …
Ahem, drawing a line under my apauling Blog upkeep in the past here is the start of a whole new, far more regular entries phase – maybe!First an update – back in December life was in limbo – work was up in the air, didn’t know where we would be living and still very unsure …
gets worse! can’t believe its been this long but of course i have the seasonal excuse of crimbo to let me off the hook!So all is well, kids have been doing lots of crafty stuff, making cards, decorating biscuits, ripping all the cards off the wall yesterday while i was on the phone and making …
Once a week – ha!Well I have the excuse that last weekend was Teeny’s first birthday and my parents came up. She had a great day, sensible amount of pressies all of which she loved – main one was a FP little people dolls house and another was a pink girlie handbag full of play …
I’m a bit rubbish at this daily blog business – so if i aim for once a week i stand a chance of beating myself! So after the rubbish weekend have had a few nice days – Monday we went out with the kids round the shops – pretty well behaved actually then came home …
So today I am officially ‘shouty mummy’ I hate, hate, hate the weekends when Ady works – I feel like a trapped single parent home alone with the kids. Its not so bad in the summer when at least we can wonder round the park for a bit but with no one around to visit …
I am writing this in a hurried fashion as a) have had a really good day today and want to capture that before the kids wind me up over bedtime and I just do a rant on them instead and b) Teeny is really, really tired as she has not slept at all today but …
still a bit early to juge how today is going 🙂 but Lynda will be here soon so I will be getting some work done!Yesterday was a good day – Lynda was here in the morning so I did some work and xmas shopping (well actually clothes shopping for me and Teeny but they were …
Having quite a good day today so far… Saturday was great – Ady was off and we all walked down into the local town centre – Monster went in his ancient pushchair – ever since we had Teeny he has walked – probably a bit rough on a 2 and a bit year old but …
today started low, got worse but has ended pretty much okay. Ady has had a really crap day at work, for a while it looked like he was going to have to work this weekend but luckily he is still off – hurrah! So i have been getting regular updates on his day which probably …
so today i am feeling a bit sad. i have started reading the montessori book and it is making me feel bad about sending Monster to nursery for nine months last year. i knew it was doing neither of us any good but everyone kept reassuring me that he would get used to it. i …
Very good week so far – Mum and Dad came for the weekend – some pretty heavy discussions on the topic of HE. We first talked about it a few months back when we went down to stay with them and it was still a germ of an idea – I said that it was …
Saturday morning and all is calm for now! Kids are sat infront of the Fimbles eating their lunch – the request was for letters (alphabites) so they both have those and some fishfingers – well it means i don’t have to cook again later!! Mum and Dad are due to arrive in the next hour …
Today I worked so Lynda was round to play with the kids. I overheard them talking about which was the odd one out – Lynda was showing Monster groups of blocks where one was a different shape, size or colour and he was picking out the odd one – very impressive and also very reminiscent …
So here we are, the intention to start HEing Monster and Teeny was made about two months ago and I have spent the interim period signing up to countless yahoo groups, asking loads of people about their ideas, opinions etc, spending a fortune on Amazon on all sorts of HE books and generally veering between …