A while ago I was reading over on Note From Lapland about the Finnish Schooling System. Finland is oft quoted by the home educating community as a paragon of virtue; they start at 6 or 7, learn to read at this age rather than earlier, have a holistic and charming (Chalet School like!) schooling ethos […]
Archives for 2011
This is the thing.
This is the thing about pregnancy after losing a baby. Some moments it’s fine. Other millennia it’s just a bit tricky. Rainbow babies, just like other babies, don’t do constant reassuring cartwheels, beating morse code of “I am alive, I will live, I will cry and breathe and open my eyes for you.” I just […]
It's just not cricket.
It would be an understatement to say I am a failure when it comes to going to major events. My pop concert count stands at one whole event, which was to see Bucks Fizz when I was 11. I’m not proud of the count, I still don’t mind saying that they were my favourite band […]
Needing knitting project help.
It is nearly time to start making this baby a blanket and I’m struggling for inspiration. Fran had one made from a pattern and the other girls used it too; after her I never managed to make ones for the others, so my Nana stepped into the breach. Freddie’s I made as a sampler while […]
Gifts from the heart, flowers from my past.
We’ve got a long way to go before having cut flowers in the house are an every day occurrence; I do get the occasional bunch of them from Max and the girls, which I appreciate enormously but it is a long standing joke here (and I suspect in plenty of homes) to immediately say “What […]
Activity with Macavity and more.
Zoe and I got back to doing our Art Day/not Latin this week, in the hope that we can get a bit of routine going after a summer of holiday and other commitments and then Fran heading off for school. Although it won’t always work, this week we did manage to time it so Fran […]
20 Weeks Pregnant
Closer to 21 weeks now in fact. I’m counting down in a reasonably big way. When I was pregnant with Freddie, it seemed terribly important to enjoy every last minute because I was sure he would be the last. Even with all this misgivings I had, I enjoyed it. This time it is harder to […]
Tom & Jerry and The Wizard of Oz
Forgive the speedy whisk through this; I’m late doing it and I really wanted to milk something educational out of a dvd offer for the girls. But well, it’s been a busy month and I think when you home educate there is a danger of trying to make EVERRRRYTHING educational. We kind of used up […]
Farewell Fiver
On Friday morning our perhaps most beloved of all of us rabbit, died. Max went out to find him stretched peacefully out in their mini house. There was no evidence of anything wrong, he was chunky ad his eyes were clear and no obvious swellings or anything. He wasn’t particularly old, just 4 1/2 years, […]
I think it's gonna be a long, long time.
Dear Freddie, Today you should be 18 months old. Such a very big age, so very firmly toddler. Walking with bits of talking, chubby hands holding mine on days out in the sun. Proper food, maybe even a proper chair at the table. Probably in your own room, maybe even weaned. Dirt clothes from making […]
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