Archives for 2006

The Fimo arrived; 4 massive boxes of it! Of course, they haven’t sent me the images yet, so i can’t actually sell it, which sadly means me and the girls will have to use it all instead 😆 Weehee! Back sometime 🙂

In the last few days Maddy has acquired the ability to add up vertically across tens and also to read. Startling really. I think she’s done it even quicker than Fran did and certainly with a lot less effort. Of course, with Maddy you never know if she’ll still remember next week, but i took […]

My friend’s test came back all clear. No need to test the baby and no more than normal chances of a repeat 🙂 Thank goodness for that 🙂

Feel like i spent all yesterday trying to juggle the needs of everyone in a rather high maintenance fashion for a sunday 🙄 However, it was largely successful i think, everyone seemed to end the day happy anyway, apart from Amelie who got terribly overtired and itchy last thing. Amelie and i spent the morning […]

I spent with Josie and Fran, while Max took the middle two motor-racing. We’ve had a very pleasant day indeed, pottering about and doing not a great deal. I’ve sat and done some new BM pages, not least a start on some new resources; had a bit of a practise with this Hama Bead Flower […]

In the words of Nanny Macphee *ducks and runs away from Alison* My aim for the last 2 weeks was to get some sort of calm, rhythm and structure back into our days. I feel like we’ve achieved that, i think everyone is much happier in general. next week i’m starting up our “timetable” – […]

Of a not very still life. This was the scene of the top of my fridge this evening and there seemed something so “home educating family with 4 girls”ish about it, that i wanted the photo; ballet school, tap shoes, cheque books, car keys, fruit still in its net bag, fish in a vase in […]