It’s orgo-planning time of year again, that moment when some home educators (and I number myself reluctantly among them) find themselves accidentally aligning with the academic year and thinking about what people in the house might ‘learn this year’. In fairness, I haven’t done this for quite a while. We bumbled along without plans for […]
Archives for 2010
Van Gogh Oil Pastel Day
After a quiet weekend, we set off to Zoe’s on Monday for another art day which I had in concept but err… not in planning 😆 Still… nothing that couldn’t be solved over tea and a few books. We’d decided to carry on following the Usborne Treasury book from last time and try aversion of […]
The flip side
I’ve been umming and aahing about something to wear that would remind me of Freddie; eventually I’d like a name necklace but I’m not ready for the questions yet. The other day I saw this beautiful bead; an oak tree with a sapling on the back. It just felt perfect – so I treated myself. […]
That was the week that was
There has been a noticeable absence of girl news this week – this being entirely due to there being a notable lack of girl. In order for me to have a little head space, but also do some heavy work on our websites and for the girls to have some fun but also a little […]
Pictures speak a thousand words.
My new Facebook profile picture received lots of lovely comments – young, pretty, relaxed, peaceful, happy, content, gentle being just a few of them. I like it, it shows me how I like to imagine myself. It’s cut from a larger picture. One that shows me as I hate to imagine myself, with the far […]
Feelings not Reasons
This morning someone posted a longish paragraph about how to help someone experiencing grief. It was interesting, I read it carefully and wondered a lot how it related to me in the situation I find myself. I found it particularly interesting because I’ve had a week off from the girls this week and been at […]
Caught in a Landslide
Dear Freddie, Today you should be four months old. I’m managing not to count the weeks, I’m managing not to think so much now about the things you should be doing. For me you are frozen in time now, that little boy of 0 to 11 days old. A little boy who I only really […]
Going round in circles isn't always bad.
After the success of the Kandinsky Monday, it was probably inevitable that more would follow. The girls have been fairly actively arty all week, which suits me just fine. I can hardly believe it, but in some senses we are (as a family) heading in to the run of ‘the run up to Christmas’ soon […]
Don't look, run.
Blogging the inane. I’m doing that, because I don’t really have the spare energy to write the awful. How many times can you write “My son is dead”? How many times can I look at a post and think “I wrote about him,” “I didn’t write about him,” “I cried today,” “I didn’t cry today”. […]
A new way to follow PoP
I’ve made PoP a page on facebook, which you can find by clicking on the widget to the right and “like” if you choose. I’ve been thinking about the way my blog feeds into Facebook and wondering if it is a bit invasive for the people who follow me but maybe don’t want to read […]
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