Archives for 2006

1) ONE HOMESCHOOLING BOOK YOU HAVE ENJOYED Yeeek… it has been ages…. always liked One to One though, very comforting in the early days 🙂 2) ONE RESOURCE YOU WOULDN’T BE WITHOUT Oh goodness… the internet! (And The Book People…) 3) ONE RESOURCE YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER BOUGHT Some of the official Montessori equipment, […]

I’ve been mum-the-taxi this week; F and M have had swimming lessons at 8.30, A at 9 and then F and M have had to be at their musical theatre rehearsals from 10-3 so there has been a fair bit of rushing in and out and when you add BM being extremely busy into that […]

… are completely s*dding pointless. Remember i did these splash courses so that hopefully they’d all end up in Level 2 together? Guess what… One in level 1, one in level 2 and one in level 3. 🙄 Well of course 😆

Because clearly a fundamental communication error is occuring, otherwise how would my children translate “please put the clothes you don’t need into a pile in the hall so i can take them upstairs” into “please kick my clean washing across the kitchen floor and liberally sprinkle it across the hallway where we can all walk […]

This morning we had to be in the pool (well, F and M did) by 8.30. We made it, we were early, i think that we were little short of the choir of angels singing the hallelujah chorus as we got there, not shrieking, not running, not late, not at each others throats, not having […]

Thursday morning i parcelled early then we headed off to Claire’s for a day of playing with Charlie and lovely toys. Midway through the day i got THE TEXT to say my new niece was on her way, so i was mildly distracted, but as usual i managed to come away from seeing Claire having […]

Congratulations to my sister G and her partner D on the birth of Baby Ella, 8lbs 12 last night on 10.08.06. Told her it would be a great birthdate; she didn’t oblige with a birth time of 04.02 but you can’t have everything and if i remember correctly, it is the day they are getting […]

I’ve just been to Tesco and i bought…. biscuits, chocolate, 5 notebooks (Amelie is getting through a lot of them!) a laminator, 2 packs of pouches, washing up liquid, mad person pills, 2 tops and 2 pairs of trousers IN REAL SIZE 16!!!!! Your turn. I can’t remember the last time i owned size 16 […]

Today we had old friends round. J&J are some of my very oldest friends, i met J at the same time as Kate and our elder 3 are the same ages almost exactly as their lot. Mr J is now house dad again for the summer and after not managing to catch up for ages […]