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We got male :)

January 27, 2012 by

Baby boy, pink, alive and in our arms 🙂 Marmite made an arrival today, having decided to show it was time to leave the premises. A very lovely c/s which turned out to be a very right decision. He’s 6lb4 and snoozing in my arms 🙂 Benedict James George.  

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Pregnancy After Loss Tagged With: a baby brother, baby benedict, being big sisters, birth after infant loss, new baby boy at patch of puddles, puddlechicks new baby, rainbow baby

Thank goodness for structure.

January 23, 2012 by

Well, if I’m strictly honest, thank goodness for structure AND Groovy Girls, since the younger two girls are spending a quantity of every day playing with them. Who would have thought that ‘groovy girl gym’ could be such an enduring game???? I’m not complaining though, they are so eager to get back to playing together […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Gymnastics, Home Education, School Tagged With: dancing, gymnastics, home ed maths, Home Education, physics

Mythical Manga Madness!

January 20, 2012 by

The girls got a variety of art books for Christmas to join our collection. We have quite a lot of these, which are variously successful, depending on their approach. Maddy has always been out most artistic but really struggles with accepting ‘teaching’ in any form. She feels she should be able to do things rather […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Home Education, Maddy Tagged With: aspergers, drawing using books, inhibitions, manga drawing

Somewhere between hope and practical.

January 18, 2012 by

This has to be the most minimalist hospital bag I have ever packed. Enough stuff to throw in a cupboard without looking if Marmite doesn’t come home, enough stuff to last until someone goes home to get more if he breathes. If he goes to scbu then he won’t need clothes or nappies from home […]

Filed Under: Grief, Pregnancy After Loss Tagged With: 35 weeks pregnant, another bloody mountain, birth, birth after neonatal death, packing a hospital bag for birth, pregnancy after baby loss, pregnancy after infant loss, pregnancy after losing a baby, pregnancy after loss, pregnancy after neonatal death, pregnancy mental health

Soldering on.

January 17, 2012 by

Thank heavens for daddies that can come home from work when very pregnant home educating mummy can’t take it any more 😉 Today I was all done in by lunch time, to the extent that I couldn’t quite imagine lasting awake long enough to see the broth safely on the table, so Max came home […]

Filed Under: Gymnastics, Max Ed, Science Tagged With: gymnastics routines, making circuits, physics with kids, potato circuits, potato energy, soldering with kids

A New Year.

January 2, 2012 by

The last two years I did a New Years Eve post, one full of hope and joy, one full of anger and despair. This year I didn’t think I would take the risk. In fact, looking back at the festive period this year, I think I got through it all by just deciding not to […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: coping with new year after losing a child, freddie, grief, infant loss, losing a child

Christmas

December 24, 2011 by

It hasn’t been quite the run up to Christmas that I planned; work, school, the pantomime, camp and pregnancy have combined to mean no time, lots of stress and very little blogging of Christmas crafty stuff, never mind doing it. We have done some things together but I lost my Christmas joy somewhere along the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Grief, Uncategorized Tagged With: busy children, children in professional pantomimes, family Christmas, family Christmas when a child has died, family life, life after loss

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

Conversation Ed

December 6, 2011 by

Last week Fran handed in a science leaflet she had to write looking at health issues and ways of avoiding them or managing them. One element was smoking; I smiled when I saw what she’d written, which included lots about how the government couldn’t ban it because it would become an illegal trade in tobacco […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Home Education Tagged With: educating through conversation, family life, Home Education, talking

That Social Whirl Called Daughters

December 5, 2011 by

Oh how I could laugh in the face of “how will they ever learn to socialise?” Our feet are not touching the ground for a moment, so busy are we hurtling from one social or sporting occasion to another. Just call us taxi drivers, quite frankly. Amelie had a lovely few days with her friend […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Gymnastics, Home Education, School Tagged With: gym competition, gymnastics, performing in professional pantomime as a child, performing in talent shows as a child

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