Urgh, just read back yesterdays post and realised it was horribly whingy and self indulgent so will put that behind me and pull myself together again.
Really tired after going to bed at 11 for an early night but getting woken at 4am by Tarly and not really getting back to sleep but today will be a Good Day.
We’ve got Home Ed group later and the theme is Scotland. I have a couple of very weak ideas for actvities and plan to dress Tarly in a kilt but above and beyond that I don’t have much else inspirational to offer! Will take lots of colouring materials and get them to design their own tartan or something 🙂 After next week (theme weather so loads of mileage there) we’ve only got 2 sessions booked at the hall – the following week I’ve cancelled as both Jenny and I are at Kessingland and there is no one prepared to take responsibility for running it, collecting money and having the key (well there might be if I really pushed but I’d rather not be worrying about whether it’s all OK while I’m away so I think they’re meeting at soft play instead!) then three sessions during July before the hall gets used for something else through the summer holidays. The group has finally started to get somewhere so I hope the break doesn’t wreck all our good work. We still intend to try and meet weekly at other locations and I’m planning some sort of sports day type event for the first week out of the hall.
The kids are eating yoghurts and playing with Lego and watching Fifi the flowertots (can’t see the attraction other than a very annoyingly catchy theme tune myself but they seem captivated) so I’m off to get dressed, turn the computer off and Do Something Constructive with them for the rest of the morning. They need to do Ady’s Fathers Day cards anyway so that will be a good start.
The rest of it? I think a holiday is long overdue really. This last four months have been what Ady’s work call ‘The Season’ – the manic period of the year, so he has been working long hours, we have been filling every weekend with something and we’re both just worn out. We’re really looking forward to Kessingland as the chance to relax a bit, spend some time with friends, enjoy watching the children with their friends and get a bit of time to ourselves without family thinking that if we are not working then we should be spending time with them.
Hopefully once we get back Ady’s work will slow down and I can spend a bit of time getting some of the stuff like writing an Ed Phil, planning the structure of our week a bit for September and maybe even doing something about my own dreams.
Back later to report what a splendid day we have had 😉
Hi again I’m all caught up, you busy blogging fiend you!
Sounds like Kessingland will be just what you need at the right time then. A real break from everything.
Please let me know how your cocoon/chrysalis is – feeling increasingly guilty and worried about Freya bumping it off it’s perch.
And, from your previous post:
“D’you know the only thing I have ever managed to keep to is diary writing as a teen and blogging the last couple of years – and that is a totally selfish act as I enjoy doing it and it doesn’t feel like a chore.” Exactly. You like writing, you enjoy writing, you are a writer. It will happen, I’m sure of it, just follow up any inspiration and I really think you have it in you to do it.
Comment by Ali — 15 June 2005 @ 11:41 am
welcome to 1.5.1.1 I’m noticing a couple of little glitches with the style sheet, but it’s 2.13 am, so I’ll get to them after sleep. Let me know if there is anything actually not working as opposed to just looking weird (like having your google ads on top of the comment box as you are typing, I want to keep typing to find out if I actually get to type behind the ads, but that is going to take a whole extra line, and I don’t know if I can keep burbling on that long, ooh, maybe I can, yes! words disappeared behind ad!)
So, like that.
Comment by jax — 16 June 2005 @ 2:14 am