Tomorrow i get Maddy back, this time, i hope, for good. And you know what is great? She’s ready to come home 🙂 I can’t wait.

Hands up if you knew the derivation of the word Plantagenet then? Bonus points if you can name the king whose hat coined the word and the colour of the Broom plant? No googling 😀 Having identified to myself that normals were a bit time consuming and boring right now, we went for a change […]

… to restore family well being and we managed one. After a slow start which included some flashcards with Moo and Fran (she got all 140 right, dunno why she wanted to do them though!) and also Max doing a fabulous season clock with them all, we decided to go out. The intention was to […]

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Spent the morning, among other things, learning some new signs with the girls; cry, baby, naughty (can’t quite fathom the difference between naughty and more atm but i’m sure we will) cuddle, can, have. Maddy is stringing little sentences together, albeit it slowly: todays best was “mummy, can i have orange juice?” She was identifying […]

Geoboards and more.

A while ago i decided to conciously make the effort to spend bits of each day with individual children but its gone by the wayside. So today, in between waffling away the day, with Js here to soak up the residue, i made more of an effort. I took Ammi for a bath; she has […]

“Fear holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing. It kills a small piece of us each day. It holds us to what we know and keeps us from what’s possible, and it is our worst enemy. Fear doesn’t announce itself; it’s disguised, and it’s subtle. It’s choosing the safe course; most of […]

Maddy, on discovering that the student can’t click her fingers, apparently said “Its because your skin is brown” and then Amelie topped that by saying “I sleep in Daddy’s bed but he makes me cry in the night…” Wail. Just wait for that Social Services referral… Still have been enormously entertained by Ammi wearing the […]

Tomorrow in fact…