Today we spent a good protion of the day with Tammy and Sam, doing more of Tammy’s full on prairie muffin baking. Kids had a ball, as ever. I do love my local HE friends and i do appreciate the way Tammy takes my rabble in and does things with them without so much as […]

About 1/3 of the parcels that have left here since Monday night I’ve spent £150 on postage so far this week. Making cards “5 mince pies in a bakers shop. Round and fat with some holly on the top…” The stairs clearly wore Josie out. She slept from 8pm to 9.30am without waking up. Still […]

Josie has learned to go downstairs backwards – she’s practised all day!

My ideal is that “education” ends up being based almost entirely around conversation. It used to be something big here but a change of car (no Fran in the front seat anymore) and an extra child has knocked the idle conversation stuff on the head a bit this last year. Plus i think we’ve got […]

An awful lot of the people who read this blog know Maddy, some of them really quite well. Most of those people don’t, i suspect, know quite why i did what i did when i had her diagnosed with Aspergers. A very few of you either knew her when she was younger or has seen […]

… there are a whole lot on the “HomeSchool Blog Awards” – there are nominees from our own blog ring there too – i’ve got one, Sarah has TWO and i definitely recognise a few others too 😉 I’m going to allow myself to be immediately entertained by being in the “HomeSchool Mom” category 😉 […]

I know, you aren’t tired… talk to the hand…

Hm. Must learn to walk away during Xmas card making sessions – managed to infuriate myself completely with both big children today because their efforts looked like 3 year olds sticking and pasting. *Grumble* *Picks self up and trills * “Tis the season to be jolly…!” Have done most of last weeks parcels, made up […]

Less than 2 weeks to Xmas (shrieks quietly into pillow.) MUST do cards tomorrow, must sort out a billion and one things i NEED to do, must post parcels, must go to lock up, must do tax return…. All of which makes EXCELLENT reason for sorting out and re-setting my Flickr account. *Sigh* I really […]

First off, is it me or is Flickr behaving differently? It never used to show me my private photos in my own blog badge, but today it does. Second – phew – i have located a particularly ernestly requested toy online which i’ll hopefully be able to get in time for Xmas. Phew. It was […]