I commented on a status the other day that at least reaching our thirties meant we embraced an age of being comfortable in our skin. That it was a good age to be. Despite everything that has happened, being in my thirties has been the age I have been happiest about myself. I’m fatter, plainer […]
Archives for 2012
How a home ed day in pictures should look….
There is a meme we old school home educators have done for years and years and year which is how a day looks for a home educating family. I say old school, clearly that’s ironic. I say how a day looks, clearly that’s a nonsense. It’s all part of the fun 😉 This is a […]
Childhood
This is the image that says childhood to me. The sun is shining, the children are wearing clothes which suit their style but which have seen their day. Those clothes are an invitation to play; everyone came home dusty and scruffy that day. The sun hats show they are loved and that someone has […]
Safety First.
Last week, two of the girls perpetrated a heinous crime in our home, breaking the keeping safe code that is firmly laid down amongst us here. I appreciate some children have vast and unlimited amounts of freedom to roam and be responsible for themselves. Some kids have ample opportunity to practice getting themselves around town, […]
An Update on ShareNiger
If you were following me a few weeks ago when I posted about sponsoring children in Niger with WorldVision then you might like an update on what we have achieved so far. After a slow start, almost 60 bloggers came together to sponsor an incredible 11 children in the Tera region of Niger. 11 girls […]
Glass Words at Glow
In the days following Freddie’s death, I was pointed to the Glow in the Woods writers and forum and a place where I would find comfort and solace and friendship among others who would understand what I was going through. I badly needed a place where the focus was not on angels or god or […]
Roll up. roll up, read all about it.
There is nothing quite like a quick poke at parenting on a public forum or news site for getting the blood boiling. I wrote the other week about how Cherie Blair had rattled cages all over by saying that what children needed was to have their mothers out at work being proper role models instead […]
Not such a gym mum any more.
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged gym stuff. There are lots of reasons for this, time being one of them. One day I’ll write more of what I think about it all but now is probably not the time. The girls still get a great deal out of it, though it has less […]
How's you solve a problem like a catch up?
You’d be forgiven for thinking we never do anything. It’s not even remotely true. These days the things I would like to blog far outnumber the number of hours I have for blogging. I wish I could record keep like the old days; I love looking back on those posts. Looking back on the last […]
I always said thank goodness for the internet.
One of the absolute default questions whenever you say you home educate is “how do you make sure you know everything they need to know?” My stock answer has always been “We have the internet, what I don’t know I google”. And that is exactly right, that is what we do. Maddy has been observing […]
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