Regrouped for our WedEd? 😉 meet this week, which was lovely in itself but made even better for me by Fran being on half term and so along with us. I do miss having her about, even if I am pleased she is doing well at school. The kids started off with a Day of […]
Various achievements & good things.
Last week Amelie and Fran went off to audition for dancing parts in our city panto, one of those with proper paid cast members (although not dancers!) and a dame and everything. It seemed like it would be a good experience for them to try out an audition, particularly as Fran, buoyed up by how […]
23 Weeks Pregnant.
Marmite is looking like making it to a major milestone, that of ‘viability’. It’s odd to be thinking like that. I never gave 24 weeks any thought with the girls and then with Freddie all I could think about was that if we got to 24 weeks and he died, at least he’d be a […]
Hama Bead Designs for Autumn
From time to time me and the girls get creative and start making pretty things with Hama Beads again. This is a good time of year for spooky and autumnal designs, so we’ve been beading merrily over the last few days. The girls had fun making things, most of which I still need to take […]
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
There can be few images of loss in literature more potent than that of the empty stool shown to Scrooge in the Cratchit house after Tiny Tim has died. There are few images more powerful in a film than that of Dumbo’s mother as she is torn from her child and left without him. It’s […]
More thoughts on school & home ed.
A while ago I was reading over on Note From Lapland about the Finnish Schooling System. Finland is oft quoted by the home educating community as a paragon of virtue; they start at 6 or 7, learn to read at this age rather than earlier, have a holistic and charming (Chalet School like!) schooling ethos […]
This is the thing.
This is the thing about pregnancy after losing a baby. Some moments it’s fine. Other millennia it’s just a bit tricky. Rainbow babies, just like other babies, don’t do constant reassuring cartwheels, beating morse code of “I am alive, I will live, I will cry and breathe and open my eyes for you.” I just […]
Needing knitting project help.
It is nearly time to start making this baby a blanket and I’m struggling for inspiration. Fran had one made from a pattern and the other girls used it too; after her I never managed to make ones for the others, so my Nana stepped into the breach. Freddie’s I made as a sampler while […]
Gifts from the heart, flowers from my past.
We’ve got a long way to go before having cut flowers in the house are an every day occurrence; I do get the occasional bunch of them from Max and the girls, which I appreciate enormously but it is a long standing joke here (and I suspect in plenty of homes) to immediately say “What […]
Activity with Macavity and more.
Zoe and I got back to doing our Art Day/not Latin this week, in the hope that we can get a bit of routine going after a summer of holiday and other commitments and then Fran heading off for school. Although it won’t always work, this week we did manage to time it so Fran […]
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