This year I thought it would be good to reclaim Mother’s Day, given that last year it was right up there with one of the saddest ‘ignore it’ days of the year. I know the girls and Max found it hard to know how to deal with it. Given I’m also trying to get back […]
Archives for February 2012
This new life.
Ben is one month old now and the enormous stress of the early days is lifting. The relief of the changes in him after he reached term was enormous. He’s still a very snoozy, and occasionally twitchy, baby but he’s awake gradually more and more and when he is, he’s alert and lovely. In the […]
366 photo challenge
I’ve been trying to log a photo a day (not hard with 5 gorgeous bits of subject matter in the house!) this year. My attempts, such as they are since I only use my phone, are over at merrilyme and I’m liking having a snap shot of the days of the year so far. This […]
Next stage learning at home and school.
When home educated kids get towards being teens, things tend to go one of a few ways. Sometimes, as in Fran’s case, they head off into school; sometimes they stick with a very autonomous and alternative education, trusting that aptitude and interest and enthusiasm will serve the child well when they get to a point […]
Half term was mainly brought to us by….
PR parcels. 😆 oh, with added Hama, fimo and junk modelling, which means no great change here 🙂 I had every intention of a good half term as I really wanted to make the most of Fran being off school but I was probably being over optimistic in all sorts of ways. However, in the […]
Maddy is 12.
I planned Bens birth, well, his virtual birth, as carefully as I could so as not to affect Maddy’s birthday but Ben had his own ideas and so we were home and back. Luckily I had done lots of early buying, but things didn’t arrive on tie or were wrong. It all felt like, as […]
How times change.
We are now into the 4th year since Max left being employed by someone other than us and the fifth year since he worked full time. I feel like, even without all the added complications of the tragedy that then befell us, I’m only really properly recovered from 5 years of trying to be a […]
Happy due date Benedict.
In another world, I would have hit today and been thinking ‘well, any time in the next fortnight’. Instead we have a three week old. Today we’ve had slightly better feeding, immediately after mummy had a total meltdown about all sorts of things which now seem entirely remote, and more awake time. He even fixated […]
St Patrick Day craft.
One or other of the children pointed out that with rainbows and green as his theme, we should have called Ben Patrick instead. I did try, but no one would have it at the time 🙂 Today I wanted to do something crafty with the girls and got as far as pulling out some inspiration, […]
These days
These are not easy days. I used up all my emotional energy getting to the end of being pregnant. In my head I foresaw two outcomes: scbu followed by death and healthy baby who came home and did well. It didn’t occur to me I might find myself coping with staring endlessly at a sleepy […]
