I shall focus on the positive of all this today 🙂 It was that sort of day 😆
Started off with everyone doing music practise. I shall have to get teachers for them sometime soon i think, but money is tight just at the moment, so i’ll be waiting until the new year i think. Need to tune Maddy’s guitar (gulp) but Amelie and Fran are okay and enjoying making noise. Everyone was reasonably busy so i went off to sort out our passports while MF looked after them.
Josie and i had a nice time in the post office, she was good company. Managed 3/5 passports. Had to get new birth certificate for Amelie (bank lost her full one and i forgot, Max put wrong marriage certificate in for me 🙄 ) Will go back tomorrow am to complete mission.
Did a fair bit of shrieking over state of house.
Then went out to Barnwell Country Park for a picnic with Hannah and co. I’ve not been there for years and i don’t think last time we went we were particualrly impressed but i saw that they were doing nature trails there so we thought it would be a nice diversion. Josie is looking so much healthier for a week outside that it seemed a good idea to try and continue it while the weather is still summer-ish.
After a lunch and a very minimum of opportunity to chat, thanks to clingy and repeatedly returning children 🙄 we set off on the trail.
I think it would be fair to say that they warmed up eventually but there was a fair bit of whining while they did so. However Hannah and i have a nature study plan (rofl, a plan… a plan which consists of “doing some”), so they might have to get used to it. I think a bit of practise at just being out and doing something will have to be got through with gritted teeth 🙄 😆
In the end they all did pretty well; the younger 3 did a spotting thing and saw butterflies, swans, geese and more. Amelie was doing a fair job of spotting the words too and the bigger 3 spent time in bird and kingfisher hides, found different types grasses, drew what they could see (Maddy did a recognisable cow parsley and teasel bush) and Fran surprised me by what she could write and spell quite happily. She surprises me with that a lot, she’s far more able at it than she chooses to show me!
By the time we got back to the car everyone had had a lovely time and were very pleased with the cuddly toy prizes they received. Yum, more stuffed things 😆
Finished off with Doctor Who, though we’ve nearly all watched it all now, which is a shame because it has been a lovely family obsession; last nights was The Satan Pit, which really did have an EXCELLENT monster 😆
‘fair bit of shrieking over state of house’…sometimes I think that it would be funny to do a film of many different women all over the world shrieking over state of house/hut/tipi whatever..it would be a really funny film because in any language we could all totally empathise…
I hope you did it properly though..you have to have some wild gesticulating in there and tearing at hair.
My fave line mid shriek over state of house is to suddenly point at something and demand an answer..i.e: “WHAT is that doing there?” or “What is THAT doing there?” or “WHO put that there?” or the all time low down mean momma classic shriek: “Everything on the floor goes in this black bin bag!” Cue children rolling eyes and wandering outside to get some peace;)
lol. Never forget before commencing shrieking to have a scout about for anything of yours that is lying around. I tidy my stuff up then have a righteous shriek about the other occupants’ stuff that’s making the house all untidy else they just find the one thing of mine that lying out and use that in their defence.
Am I the only sitting here thinking “WRONG marriage certificate” or does everyone else know there are more than one kind? We took our 3 +spare1 on the farm trail the other week and I’m so glad I didn’t pay, they hated it although not more than DH did *rolls eyes*
lol, good spot.
he’d put in our huge special marriage licence with the seal from the archbishop, instead of the thing saying we were actually married!
Hi Merry
I got a CHROMATIC-HEADSTOCK-GUITAR-BASS-TUNER
for xmas … makes it really easy to
tune, even with plenty of background noise (which makes it pretty impossible
by ear when home educating!!!)
Got it on Ebay and it did what it said it would do! It cost about £14 including
the postage.
It would probably be easy enough for her to use herself with a bit of
an introduction.
HTH
Best wishes
Sally
Ohhhh…. the state of the house shrieking …. mine turns into something like
the ‘state of the nation speech’ … gets far too boring and involved and
EVERYONE
phases out on me and looks all far away and blank. It’s like you can suddenly
see those dead bits of bush rolling down the sandy streets whilst everyone
wishes
they’d had the sense to hide in the saloon before Sheriff Sal came into town.
Trying to lighten up, but is it a home ed thing that it seems so difficult a thing
to tolerate when everyone else around me just picks up in the evening when
their kids are in bed??????