*Laminate mixing charts. *Print off colour colouring charts. *Make playdough. Buy food colouring, milk, washing up liquid. *DON’T forget crayons…. *Pack crafty stuff for collages. *Plastic laces. *Montessori colour things. *Hama beads in 6 shades and circle boards – ironing paper, DON’T forget iron. Lined paper – i like this because….. (PENCILS!) *Paper circles for […]

“Um…. well, sums is maths… maths is short for mathematical, so it means sums, like Fran is short for Frances…” “Oh, so its sums with a ‘mathical’ added on the end?” I love my Fran 😀 Well, today was okay. Started off with shocked daughters on waking and discovering that Max and i had removed […]

Girls were great about me being poorly today and largely entertained themselves. I was about but not really functioning early on although lots of scratchy toast and hot chocolate helped a lot – mid morning the throat started to subside a bit – i’m actually wondering if my ear drum has burst though as its […]

Questions by Alison. 1. If I said “I bet Fran would be reading today whatever you did last summer”, would you hit me? No, i wouldn’t hit you but i wouldn’t believe you. I think that she was capable of learning this time last year, and would have been just as capable this year but […]

Don’t forget we are puddling on friday….. Anyone want to come round to mine tomorrow? Or meet anywhere else? K and A have my phone number….

ARGGGGGGGGGH. Fran has more snot than i’ve ever seen, Josie is doing lime green poo and i have one tonsil roughly the size of Wembley which is making my ear feel like it might explode outwards at any second. Ammi is coughing, in fact, only Maddy is really “well”. I’m just going mental over the […]

Gallery Not much else to report really, girls went out to Burghley house and jumped on their Uncle all day, i have a sore throat again of the enormous lump on one side variety and feel slightly depressed. On the other hand i have improved BM, nursed my bubba, had a lovely weekend and got […]

Fran started the day by being sick, not a lot, but enough and was clearly out of sorts for most of the day. We had planned on going to an Easter Egg hunt at Sacrewell Farm but it was really too cold for babies and sick people. So BIL, SIL and I and M went […]

Nic, your photo just reminded me, i keep meaning to put up some sort of “warning if you have a child with eczema” page with these. My mum brought these up for me at the weekend. I’d not had any of Ammi after chickenpox before because she dropped the camera in the bath just before […]

Well, i guess it finally clicked. For a bit of quiet time this evening, i sat down with Fran and the first of the new Flying Boot books – she read me it really quite nicely (having finished the first StudyDog earlier) and then said “I just want to read more and more.” So i […]