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Home educating for a day.

September 17, 2013 by

The trouble with slightly milking how ill you are with a cold while your ex home educating mummy is very sleepy, is that when she realises you’ve got one over on her, she has weapons. Today has mostly been brought to Josie by education city, reading eggs, tricky word practice and Oxford reading tree. Bwahahaha. […]

Filed Under: Josie

The Ten Things That Make Me & Us.

March 27, 2013 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Fran, Josie, Maddy Tagged With: #10wks10yrs, about us, allergies, asthma, baby loss, blogging, bullying, chicken pox, cleft lip and palate, depression, eczema, family life, hypothyroidism, no toes

It's like, fashion, right?

November 22, 2012 by

Being a bear of very little style, my children get most of their fashion sense from Groovy Girls and friends, most noticeably the daughters of my lovely arty real life friend Zoe (who has a mean art blog these days!) Zoe's girls have style in clothes and artistic ability and my girls love both theirchandmedowns […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Drawing, Josie Tagged With: drawing clothes, fashion design, history, learning about fashion

And now she is 8.

November 5, 2012 by

Josie, my little firework girl, is 8. I can't even say it seems no time, because so much has happened since, but still, I can hardly believe my littlest girl, my baby girl, is 8 years old. This year, for perhaps the last time, she still wanted all her presents from our shop; dolls, toy […]

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Not such a gym mum any more.

July 17, 2012 by

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged gym stuff. There are lots of reasons for this, time being one of them. One day I’ll write more of what I think about it all but now is probably not the time. The girls still get a great deal out of it, though it has less […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Gymnastics, Josie Tagged With: gymnastic competition, gymnastics, gymnastics videos

Learning to Read (version 4) with Reading Eggs

December 7, 2011 by

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; […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Josie, Uncategorized Tagged With: how do home educated children learn to read, learn to read websites, learning to read, reading eggs, reading eggs access code, reading eggs websites

Josie is Seven

November 6, 2011 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Josie Tagged With: birthdays, budkins farm people, creative play, holztiger animals, how children play, josie is 7, le toy van wooden farm, online toy shop, wooden animals, wooden toy farm

The Things They Say

May 15, 2011 by

I love it when children come up with cute things and say them. Josie, for instance, last week said ??I think I must be allergic to not having chocolate, because I felt sick, so I ate some chocolate and now I??m fine!?? Result. On the other hand?? ??How old IS Kate Middleton??? ??About 9 years […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Josie Tagged With: funny things children say

Making something grow

April 19, 2011 by

Thanks to my many lovely friends, the garden is still looking beautiful; daffs are hanging on, tulips blooming, one magnolia is still making new blooms and the other is about to burst open. Not bad for an iPhone. It’s worth a thank you. I didn’t want to garden last year, but being sent trees and […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Creative Every Day, Family Life, Freddie, Garden, Josie, Photos, Trying to Conceive Tagged With: garden veg patch, gardening, gardening with children, growing vegetables, growing vegetables with kids, vegetables in pots

Sail away

April 14, 2011 by

I’m a little short on the mental energy to blog, but I committed to a post a day, so here it is. Yesterday Josie and I made paper boats. She wax designed one side in thick coverings of colour and then we learned to fold them. We used some Stockmar crayons that we were given […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Josie, Science, Uncategorized Tagged With: crafts for 6 year olds, easy experients for young children, making paper boats, sinking and floating, stockmar crayons, wax resist on paper

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