Lax parenting… something like the ‘benign neglect’ of our home educating days that served the girls so well. To be honest, parenting Bene badly is something I’ve had to practise at a bit, since his first year or so mostly consisted of me hovering over him in a panic that he would stop breathing, stop […]
Josie's Big Day.
A very long time ago, Josie did her first ever gym competition. She was terribly nervous and although she did fine, forgetting her floor routine mid dance had a big impact on her and she said she would never do another one. Move on a year or move and I was a bit surprised to […]
Amelie again. Another trip to hospital.
You know how some children just cause you nothing but trouble in the health care department? In this house, that’s Amelie. This week she excelled herself with a dramatic bit of poorliness we still haven’t got to the bottom of that resulted in some of this… Another trip to a&e. It started very suddenly on […]
Amelie Foot Update Part One
Sunday: As it stands (ha!… or doesn’t stand might be more appropriate), Amelie has done a significant amount of damage to her foot, merely by doing a perfectly normal warm up activity where she happened to go over on one foot. The first trip to A&E left us believing she had just hurt some ligaments […]
How to have a Fashion Design Birthday Party
I’m notoriously bad at organising birthday parties for my children, I think I have done about 4 in all of their lives. But when we got offered a Harumika Party Pack to review, Amelie got her wish – a birthday party for the school friends she was about to part company with that was all […]
School Life Lessons #homeworkfail
There are some lessons that my daughters are learning pretty quickly about me. a)I don’t iron and therefore if you leave your uniform in a heap, you (not me) will get bellowed at by your headmistress the next day. b) I don’t do instant, so if you tell me about a school trip/lunch money/ sports […]
An almost finished product.
A few weeks ago the girls were involved in a show at a new dance school they’ve joined. All the older three did something solo in it, though Fran also performed lots in group dances, at one point doing three consecutive solos to cover spaces by absentees and also led her little ballet troupe through […]
And now she is 11
Amelie. The name most often said in the house. Since way back then… And then…. And oh my goodness, I know this face now. With a certain amount of this along the way… I love them big, but these were special days. Suddenly this. This. Eleven. Almost her whole life has been captured here on […]
The Ten Things That Make Me & Us.
A person, a family, are far more than a collection of things, ailments, personalities, looks, interests and abilities. What I notice more than anything about having a large family, is how we all alter with each other; each little change brings about something new. With the exiting of Amelie from every day home ed, Maddy […]
That Panto. Memories for later years.
When I was a child I wanted toi dance in a panto more than anything in the world. Actually, I wanted to dance more than anything in the world but my mum said she would pay for lessons for me (at 10) only if I phones up and did the finding out myself. I was […]
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