At Latinetc last week I made a start on doing some poetry study with the older kids. I managed to forget my book, so grabbed one from Katy’s shelf and luckily it had one of my absolute favourite poems in it, which my mum used to read me when I was very young. An odd […]
Archives for 2011
The Home Ed Round Up Bits
Trying to think what has been going on the last couple of weeks in the “in between other more meaningful posts” places. I always end up going to look on Facebook and Twitter to see what I’ve been doing. We finally managed to get most of the Lego builds in one place and one piece […]
Bye Bye Button Rabbit :(
Button a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr. At lunch time today Fran came in to say that Button, our 8 year old rabbit, was shaking and not looking right. She had been hopping about just fine yesterday, though I thought she looked a bit lethargic and slow but she was still happy to chase […]
Knitting Progress
The knitted sanity blanket continues and I’m starting to think this blanket says a lot about the process of the last year. There was no expectation of anything changing, ever again, in the beginning and no expectation of recovery, or learning to live alongside all of this. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to […]
Reluctantly Spring
Hey, little boy. I see you.
A Day in the Garden (and a chance for a present :) )
After a grumpy day yesterday (I think top of the list of ‘how to help your friend if she loses a child’ should be ‘if she says the day is starting happy, she’ll crash within an hour and needs hourly moral boosts and love all day’) I wanted to do better today. The sun was […]
Home Ed Growing Up & Heading for Further Education
I think it is inevitable that this was going to happen in this house but it is certainly not unique. Over the years I’ve watched remarkably young early teens develop a keen awareness of their ability to take control of their life from within their own family. Of course, my experience of purely schooled teens […]
Basket with Flowers
Basket with Flowers a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr. Testing out blogging directly from Flickr. If this works, 10 seconds with the lovely Jeni will have taught me something which defeated me for 5 years!
Friday Club: A Favourite Childhood Memory
In a basically secure childhood, it should not be so hard to think of a favourite memory. I had to dig deep and think hard. So much of childhood is defined by me as school; the homework, the bullying, the boredom, the lack of satisfaction and isolation, the shouting in the morning as we tried […]
Empty & aching and I don't know why…
Dear Freddie, Today you should be 11 months old. Your birthday is creeping up and it is preying on all our minds, even in the places I normally expect it the least. I know we all wish we were planning the first ever boy birthday in the house instead of trying to work out how […]
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