Fran currently has several things on the go:
*House cross stitch – supposed to be a present so need to get it done this week.
*Postcard Scrapbook – Brown Owl says she can do badges at home which seems a good opportunity for focus, so we thought we’d start with “Collector”.
*Scotland Lapbook.
*Australia posters.
*Timeline – kings and Queens of England

I’m sure there is something else, i’ll have to read my blog.

Maddy has:
*Dave the Duck
*Egypt
*The body

Amelie is very interested in drawing and letters at the moment, so we are trying to really include her in table activities. Its great to see her taking part.

I’d very much like to get some of this tied up before we go away, specifically the Scotland lapbook(s) if Maddy decides to join in again, or the moment will pass. So that is the aim for tomorrow. Maddy can take Dave to Devon and Fran can take the postcards, then if we can find a “collection” to visit down in Exeter, she’s sorted for that one. I think i’ll sit in bed in a minute and do half the stitches on the outline of the cottage “roof” so she can get on with it in the morning. Would probably be worth taking the timeline on holiday as well so we can use it when we go on visits.

I’ve got loads to do tomorrow; feels like this year has just rushed by. I can’t believe Josie is almost 9 months old now, as long out as in. ARGH.

Weekend really was lovely but i’m a bit aware i was quite stressed. I’m feeling distinctly jumpy and anxious, not sure why, but really was very shaken by the near miss in the car. A fraction of a second and i think we really might not have survived it. I don’t know how we did miss. Horrible. However, loved having so many friends about, loved watching all the happy children, enjoyed the time i got with various people. Thanks to Barbara’s mum and Alison’s mum for having me and mine as well Kind of nice to sink into the strong masculine arms of my husband and be conveyed home though

Car was fine and i didn’t crash either. Thanks to the assembly of technical support for checking the car out for me.

And thanks for the great party and the fabulous company

This happened a mile from where we live yesterday, this tree was uprooted along the road that i drive down to get to nursery… now granted i did spot that it went a bit dark and rainy for a while, and i noticed a couple of claps of thunder but we didn’t even shut the patio doors. How the **** were there 120mph winds less than a mile away???

While discussing this with Js, Fran pointed out that she did ask me to close the patio doors but i was too busy in the next room, playing with my new laptop. Wonder if i would have noticed if they had been sucked away?????

Nature Anthem

Hours of happy memories already

Considering the amount of posts i’ve done today, its really been a very positive day.

Js has been here, playing with Josie and Amelie at various Happy Street, Lego type things

Before she even got here, all the big three had launched into Bob the Builder flowers, which they did such a nice job on and were quite obscenely proud of!

Then Maddy and i did her story, while Fran was… hmm… not entirely sure, it was something industrious though, which felt nice. Maddy got a big kick out of her storyboard and followed it up with the picture of a flower growing, which she did entirely off her own bat; i loved the way she sectioned it off to show time passing. She is SUCH a different girl to Fran!

Fran and i spent some time on the beginnings of a scrapbook of postcards; she got them all sorted into sensible sets and then we did a page on Edinburgh and Stirling Castle. She did some great writing.

I think more lego and some dvds happened then, while i started trying to sort out the desktop, the aim being to hand that mainly over to them. I’m gonig to clear off my email and web stuff from it so i don’t get drawn to it through the day, even if its on for them to use (as it mostly has been recently, Ammi is very much into software and both the others love to do Studydog still.)

Fran decorated her box house (don’t ask, she’s asleep in it!) with a variety of flags all stuck to lollysticks, Maddy was very busy at something else and 578 photos uploaded on to Flickr later, it was tea time. Oh yes, and Maddy and i started Dave the Duck’s diary. That’s all her own writing there!

Tonight has been mainly trying to settle Josie off a bit earlier (failed) more flickr-ing, the start of Olga-da-Polga (finished The BFG, made me cry) and some serious and much needed discussion.

I loved this:

How different are my big two?!?!?!

You scored as Remus Lupin. You are a wise and caring wizard and a good, loyal friend to boot. However sometimes in an effort to be liked by others you can let things slide by, which ordinarily you would protest about. Remus Lupin 70% Hermione Granger 65% Ron Weasley 65% Albus Dumbledore 65% Harry Potter 60% Ginny Weasley 55% Draco Malfoy 50% Sirius Black 45% Severus Snape 45% Lord Voldemort 30%

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Nice laptop, lovely wireless!
Keyboard will take some learning though.
Weird!