This is worthy of a blog instead of the one liner on brightkite. At Gymmies today, Josie not only joined in much more confidently and started having fun much quicker, not only really listened to the people running the activities and got much better with each go and not only climbed to the very top [...]
… we get on with educational pursuits.
The last 2 Thursdays we’ve had really good Brownie sessions – 2 weeks aog i led my first session and we did cress and mustard and bean sprouting, as part of the Seasons badge. This week many of them dressed up in Chinese outfits and we made red envelops [...]
Before i begin, i would like to make 3 things very clear.
1. I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a politically active home educator. I home educate for my own reasons and in a general sense tend not to get overheated about political changes that perhaps i should care about more. But there [...]
my photoshop skills are really not too good. If anyone wants to take the idea and make it look better, format it better, change the photos to their own etc etc or if anyone wants my photos to just do a better job, please feel free. I like the idea, but my execution isn’t very [...]
Sometimes, it feels like much more than 2 weeks since the cleaners last came. (Damn, giving up cleaners as redundancy reality bites is going to be hard.) Today was definitely one of them, with mess beginning to creep up in the “i can’t face doing anything because it is all so untidy” sort of way. [...]
If i hadn’t had a splitting headache for most of it, today would have been an excellent day. As it was, it was mostly passable with some excellent bits and no awful bits (unless you count the endless “WE BLOODY DO OWN SOCKS, SO GO AND FIND SOME!!!!!!” arguments.)
The big girls are very into Civilisation [...]
Josie is well and truly into the “4 years old and THINKING DEEPLY and sometimes WORRYING” phase now. She’s a smart enough little cookie and exposed to far more than her sisters were at her age; she isn’t phased by Doctor Who (which would have terrified Fran even as a 7 year old) and can [...]
