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Educayshun

September 27, 2010 by

Damn. I’m all behind again. We’ve had a good few weeks anyway; the homework diaries work really well still. Everyone likes it, everyone is busy and occupied (well, except Amelie who is converting education avoidance into an art form 🙄 ) I regularly depress myself with the fact that the girls do not get the […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Gymnastics, History etc, Home Education, Photos, The Girls, Trips Out Tagged With: craft, educating at home, education outside school, home, Home Education, home making, home schooling, knitting, teaching children at home

Our Family Tree

September 19, 2010 by

The “family tree” has been a watchword in our family for a long time – we lived opposite one that became christened such for a couple of years, in honour of  “The Tigger Movie” and Maddy planted one a few years ago in a pot which is now a strapping sapling, waiting to be planted […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Creative Every Day, Freddie, Photos, The Girls, Thinking Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Don't rock the boat, we don't have lifejackets

August 30, 2010 by

I think perhaps people underestimate the effect the last few months have had on the girls, perhaps because on the face of it, they appear to be doing so well. Although this is a blog about family, I’ve avoided talking so much about them because it seems a private thing, but sometimes I worry they’ll […]

Filed Under: The Girls, Thinking

That was the week that was

August 8, 2010 by

There has been a noticeable absence of girl news this week – this being entirely due to there being a notable lack of girl. In order for me to have a little head space, but also do some heavy work on our websites and for the girls to have some fun but also a little […]

Filed Under: Music, Sport & Dance, The Girls, Trips Out

Going round in circles isn't always bad.

July 30, 2010 by

After the success of the Kandinsky Monday, it was probably inevitable that more would follow. The girls have been fairly actively arty all week, which suits me just fine. I can hardly believe it, but in some senses we are (as a family) heading in to the run of ‘the run up to Christmas’ soon […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Photos, Sport & Dance, The Girls Tagged With: Kandinsky, kandinsky for kids

Music, movement & painting in circles

July 26, 2010 by

Zoe and i commenced “the plan” today, working our way around Fran, Skye and Amelie going to a workshop with Tim Noble at their dance school. While they were out, we got the others working with a fairly intensive day looking at the art of Kandinsky with the help of a rather fab book from […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fran, Home Education, Music, Sport & Dance, The Girls, Trips Out, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, dance, educating at home, education outside school, family, family life, friends, home ed with other families, Home Education, home schooling, kandinsky for kids, kandinsky project, oil pastel project, teaching children at home, tim noble, using oil pastels

Counting Magpies

July 12, 2010 by

A very busy week. I’m hoping to persuade Max to blog Friday as a guesting blogger (he might) but I don’t think I’ll hang on for him so I’ll do a quick phot round up. After the busy weekend and then Monday doing art with le Ciel Rouge, we visited Stanwick Lakes on Tuesday with […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Freddie, Gymnastics, Home Education, Max Ed, Merrily Empire, Music, Photos, Sport & Dance, The Girls, Thinking, Trips Out, Writing Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, educating at home, education outside school, grief, Home Education, home schooling, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death, teaching children at home

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