Monday – I was too busy worrying about my Dad to do more than basics, so Zoe and co came here in the afternoon instead of an art day. Girls did loads of work though. Fran really forging ahead with Mathletics, writing and so on and of course completed that lovely guest post for me. […]
Archives for 2011
Making T-Shirts – By Fran
For Christmas this year I decided to take it one step further with my Sisters and Mums presents. At the beginning of December I had to go into my parents unit to get a birthday present for my friend and I saw a name of a business that caught my interest (Which I will mention […]
Ten Months
Dear Freddie, Ten months ago I was sitting by your cot, wondering in a daze how this had possibly happened, how my worst fears had come true, how you could possibly be so sick when none of the dreadful and dire things I had been warned of for 10 years and 4 births had happened. […]
Easy enough for it to pass by
On Monday we had artetc and a dancing lesson. On Tuesday I went to work and busied myself there and got on with sorting out baby toys into pretty sections. While I was there, I heard that one of our suppliers sons is desperately ill and that was enough to twang a painful heartstring or […]
Total Lego Mania hits The Puddle
Our very first brush with Lego occurred when Fran was a baby; the Primo Lego (now i think an ex-Lego range) made its way into the house and stayed a while, largely ignored except to be scattered everywhere, by my “I-don’t-play-I-make-mess” first daughter. I think it was me that developed the obsession and I vividly […]
Last weeks Latinetc & this weeks Historyetc
Here I am, back to record keeping. Of all the myriad of reasons for doing that, along with ‘people come a read this blog and then tell me they started to home educate because it seemed do-able from what I write’ (a fact that is occasionally worrying to say the least!) I think my best […]
Artetc – Exploring Architecture with Art
I admit is, the current Lego phenomena here (over a month of solid play and counting) led me to suggest to Zoe that building a series of Artetc days around houses and street scenes would be interesting. I’ve got various non-art related ideas for this too and I do find that a tied together set […]
Telly Food Tech (aka Healthy Eating)
Introducing the first ever guest post by Max 🙂 This was my first crack at pro-active HE for a while now and it was generally a pretty successful day; everyone stayed involved through the day, enjoyed what they did and learnt something, so I guess you could say we met all our learning objectives for […]
Identical Laws
Apparently the same law that applies to home ed (have one very good day, you immediately get a very bad day) applies to baby grief in a similar way. So if you write a sentence like this:- “Now that, I hate saying this but I’m having to try and make it true, the worst of […]
Being a better mummy
Now that, I hate saying this but I’m having to try and make it true, the worst of the raw grieving is beginning to pass, I’m trying to keep my promise to Freddie that I would be a better mummy to the girls in remembrance of him. I love them so much and losing a […]
