I reckon this post will come back to bite me on the posterior. I can nearly guarantee when in fact; I reckon I have just under 2 years before I’m holding my head in my hands and wailing ‘WHAT was I thinking?’ If it happens sooner than that, it is conclusive proof of that unwritten […]
And now she is 14.
My big girl, my biggest girl, is 14. Max and I have spent quite a lot of the evening saying this in awe. 14. Wow. And she looks so beautiful in that picture too, growing into the young woman she is becoming. She feels like a young woman, another adult in the house really. A […]
Getting school life taped.
We are approaching the end of the 2nd term of having one child in school, unless you peddle in the pointless currency of 6 term years like this school does. I’m not sure that was worth the effort of rebranding personally; I only work in 3 terms and I suspect it will go the way […]
Learning to Read (version 4) with Reading Eggs
I want to preface this by saying that we were given some Reading Eggs books free of charge to try out by the company so that we could review them, but that we have also already been paid up members of the site for 6 months. We also bought the first set of books ourselves; […]
Josie is Seven
It’s a bit of a given, if you have a birthday on November 5th, that your birthday will include fireworks. If you happen to be Josie, your birthday will also include penguins, which it did in various forms, from handmade ones from Maddy to purchased ones from various people (and one she wangled on a […]
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 […]
School's a-coming
Fran starts school next week. Although the reality of how much I will miss her is sinking firmly in, I’m still feeling very positive about it. It seems she is too, though she isn’t saying much. If asked, she says she is looking forward to stretching herself to a new challenge, which I like and […]
Trauma and tears at ENT
Fran (who has given me permission to write this latest twist in her cleft care on the blog) had a routine trip to the ENT department this week. She was referred by her Cleft team surgeon and speech therapist, who were concerned by her hoarse voice, which has developed over the last year or so. […]
All about Fran
When MuddlePuddle and then PoP started, it was really mostly about Fran. She has always been the one to do things first and rightly or wrongly, I suppose I tended to focus on her. Things have gone on at her pace, often aimed for her interests and needs with everyone tagging along. But all that […]
All a bit complicated
There are a lot of things in this post. Some reasons to chatter and some reasons why I haven’t been doing so much of that too. Sometimes the only way forward is to tumble it out and let anyone who wants to sift the melting pot. There is the large and the small tucked into […]
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