Sometimes, it feels like much more than 2 weeks since the cleaners last came. (Damn, giving up cleaners as redundancy reality bites is going to be hard.) Today was definitely one of them, with mess beginning to creep up in the “i can’t face doing anything because it is all so untidy” sort of way. […]

If i hadn’t had a splitting headache for most of it, today would have been an excellent day. As it was, it was mostly passable with some excellent bits and no awful bits (unless you count the endless “WE BLOODY DO OWN SOCKS, SO GO AND FIND SOME!!!!!!” arguments.) The big girls are very into […]

Josie is well and truly into the “4 years old and THINKING DEEPLY and sometimes WORRYING” phase now. She’s a smart enough little cookie and exposed to far more than her sisters were at her age; she isn’t phased by Doctor Who (which would have terrified Fran even as a 7 year old) and can […]

Although in general, people don’t remember the come back song called New Beginnings. But i do feel a bit like i’m living in The Land of Make Believe because life has taken a dramatic change. And no, no one ripped my skirt off… yet. Friday was a day of high stress indeed; Fran went off […]

Tuesday pm we did indeed manage some Latin (me and Fran) and both really enjoyed doing it; i could remember enough to get her started and explain what was going on. I do love Galore Park and as simple text books go, i think every one we’ve had would get 5 out of 5 for […]

There is many a true word spoken in a Disney tune 😉 I liked the one above, which jumped out at me from Tarzan. I’m often not sure who has learned the most since we’ve HE’d but it has certainly been good for me. During a conversation at my parents over the weekend, i said […]

On Wednesday we joined up with old and new friends for latinetc which we’d asked to joined in with. The girls adored time spent with other kids they love and seemed to get a lot out of the activities on offer. Fran is very taken with the idea of Latin at the moment so was […]

To say i have small and niggly work related insomnia would be putting it mildly. Juggling to the best of my ability, we managed to have a good day yesterday and get back into being a home ed family. Considering i’m not really well (did panic last night my tonsil was flaring up but it […]

The Christmas break seems to have come and gone fairly quickly, though no doubt slower than for most. I have this idea in my head that we get 10 days of hunkering down as a family but in fact i think that happened once or twice and hasn’t happened for a while. We’ve had visitors […]

We had a lovely new year with the Beans, quiet and demure and Baileys fuelled 🙂 I like having late breakfast with someone who has already delivered a baby that day too 🙂 I’m really horribly rubbish with lots of people in one place these days, not to mention noise, even got a bit mooted […]