I do try not to. But this has been an awesome (to quote Josie) week. I was included in a round up of educational posts, proving beyond doubt that cakes on plates is the way forward and I should be Minister for Maths. (There is no point telling me you have to be good at […]
Amelie is 10.
Today our beautiful Amelie turned 10. She drives us mad, our Amelie. She’s a bundle of so many things, so many infuriating things. I can sum her up in a list of words: funny, feisty, fabulous, fearsome, ferocious, flawed, focused. You can guarantee to find her slap in the middle of any fight in the […]
The shame of the failed housewife…
One of my dirty little secrets is that I have a cleaner. I’m deeply embarrassed about this really but for reasons I can’t explain on the blog, I can’t actually stop having one. It’s a left over of the days when running the business, having lots of home educated children, a house new enough to […]
Science in kit form.
The girls and I have made a pledge to have used every single kit in the house by the end of the summer. We are far too guilty of hoarding nice things to do rather than actually doing them. I’m also desperate to get some stuff out of our house; the planned conservatory is unlikely […]
Ben at 14 Weeks
He’s changed so much this week that a short post on his achievements seems just right. Over the last fortnight he learned that breast full time is better than anything else. He started by refusing formula, then moved on to refusing breast milk in a bottle. He’s back to fully breastfed now and we got […]
Finished it Friday: Nina's cardigan.
I’m properly proud of this, as it’s my first ever completed baby clothing item and I think it came out okay too. Ben’s is still waiting to be made up but I wanted to get Nina’s in the post so I finished hers off first. That’s Ben’s on the right. I think I liked the […]
Maths in bits (of plasticine) – fractions for beginners.
If you know me at all, you know that large elements of my maths teaching revolves around cakes on plates. It’s served me well over the years. In fact, there is a series of blog articles in it somewhere; I’ve been meaning to do it for ages. My main home ed maxim is that there […]
The Smacking Thing
I guess there is every chance that by the end of this post you’ll hate me. Or worse, be deeply disappointed in me. Or angry with me. But there is something I would like to say because I’m a little tired of sanctimonious parenting posts preaching perfection at me. I’ve been meaning to say it […]
Are you calling me darling?
Dear Ben, Today you are 3 months old. Do you know that even now I find it hard to believe I am not typing “you should be 3 months old”? I still find it hard to believe our luck. I’m not sure that I ever was very good at trusting everything would generally work out […]
I went to blog camp.
Having missed out on the chance to get a ticket because my head was too broken while I was pregnant, I nearly went into rapture when Sally sent me an invite to take up a reserve place. I’ve got lots of time for the way Sally, of Tots100, The MADS and BlogCamp fame, runs her […]
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