I could put “not much to report” – because in HE terms there isn’t – and this is supposed to be an HE blog after all.
However, have had a lovely day with Beans and Goddards, celebrating BB’s birthday. Thank you very much for inviting us and it was great to spend time with you all. Maddy most pleased to have spent time with Monster and SB; Amelie is considering whether Teeny warrants “sister” status, given the Buttercup link 🙄 Possessive? Her? Nooooooo….
Have taken the big two swimming again this evening; not quite so successful, Fran could only seem to go backwards, but fun nonetheless! She tried breaststroke, which was slightly more successful, she only sunk on the second stroke 😆
Josie has discovered strops, temper and bottom lips – all very funny. We’ve really seen it all before, it’s only funny 😆 She has also, thanks to R 🙄 discovered how to move the travel cot that has been blocking the bottom step and so can get upstairs; she evidently also observed R going down stairs forwards, so has been trying that too.
Today Fran stayed at home with Max and did loads of cooking and game playing; i think some major daughter/daddy bonding happened.
Yesterday Maddy and i spent a whilke looking at some words – the -ook words, given her favourite words is look – she finally “got” that she could read them all if she thought about it and we played for a while with words from her word flowers, building silly sentences. I don’t know who was more surprised by her reading ableness – her or me!
Have come home in ponderous mood; realising i have a couple of massive and potentially disasterous issues at here that i have to face at some point. Not really quite sure how to without rocking a rather precarious boat 🙁 Still can’t really get my head around what you do in a situation where there is no middle ground, no compromise, no way of starting dialogue but no way of letting it lie and staying sane either.
However hard we try to stop them, kids always find a way of getting what they want!
I couldn’t teach a child to swim- I’d go mad! Well done you for doing so.
I taught my brother when he was 7 and i was 14 – he was terrified and used to cling to me till i bruised, but we got there. Not sure i am doing such a good job with the girls but i’m assuming if you put them in water often enough, they eventually start to float!
As for Josie – honestly you’d think i was trying to ruin her life, not avoid her cracking her skull falling down stairs or be found dead upstairs after choking on some stray ello!
Sumaiyah was terrified of the black lane lines and the water filters.I got really impatient about it.Hannah suggested that possibly i was expecting too much. I relaxed and let her play and or cling to me .She is now much more confident and can nearly swim a width unaided.We would love to see you all there.Must go next week..
SB just seemed to do it in the end. we actually got there by here initially learning to ‘swim underwater’ [sink in other words]
hugs on other issues. Can’t think of any sensible advice.
Was lovely to see you. have flickred of course – and deleted the ones I knew you would hate!!
IMO h.e and home life are mixed up. Swimming a bit hit and miss here, Well done to Maddy on her reading. Whatever the issues are hope you can find way. I have issues with a family member, no comprimise can be reached unfortunetly, and as christmas nears it always gets worse.
Good luck with the issues you mentioned. Sounds tough. xxx
My girls can swim, mainly because they have been to the pool lots and have more fun moving around it. They are a bit older than yours. They hated the boring repitition of lessons so gave them up quickly and taught themselves.
I see this very much as a home-ed blog and it’s my favourite one. I like the fact you are detailed and update regularly!