You finding it strangely hard to write without some 🙂 🙁 😆 :shock:’s I can hardly function in type without an emoticon these days!

Peaceful morning of this and that. Fran is heavily into the maths rod pagers and worked on those for most of the morning, i pootled away getting a craft ready for group, Fran rewrote her book review in nicer handwriting, Maddy made a card for E and Amelie made an alien. That doesn’t seem much […]

First day without in about 10 days i think. 😆 Blog is undeniably getting a bit boring at the moment i think. Not only is everything going relatively swimmingly but the kids are actually asking to do maths, writing and reading. I’m not asking for family related conundrums, but i don’t seem to have much […]

Who said nothing more could happen today? I feel i really want to offload this, it’s been a fundamentally important day to me and so it is bloggable. But its a bit waffly and emotional so please forgive me just this once. Don’t pick me to pieces too hard. Even though i’m relieved, i’m also […]

So i might as well blog it. I finally fell asleep at 3am last night, Josie got up to play for 2 hours at 4am. Hmmm. So i’m feeling even more sleep bedriped (well, that is telling, that was supposed to say deprived, not bedriped!) than normal, plus i’ve decided to only way to deal […]

If you look in the comments, there is a link to a rather excellent Gaffer edit of this picture.

Home life is good at the moment. Oddly, the big two kids are really aware that i’m teetering on a bit of an emotional brink and are being lovely. I’m getting more cuddles, more affection and possibly more toleration for my flights of fancy than ever. There is something to be said for having bigger […]

Home educating Utopia 🙂 Fran and i get inspired by Jules’ blog about symmetrical pictures. We decide to give it a go. Having played with coloured squares on paper for a while, we got out paints and used cotton buds to blob paint on to folded card. Then she translated those blob pictures back on […]

The weekend wasn’t quite as bad as i thought it might be. We went to my parents, which proved a good distraction and though i cried quite a bit, privately, i didn’t fall to bits. Friday we pottered about here, packed and then drove up. Girls were lovely all day, helped choose presents for Josie […]

As a complete aside, this all unfolded right in front of me yesterday, though we didn’t know what was going on. We left AWorld, decided to go through town to get to Staples and suddenly found ourselves in the middle of police cars everywhere, sirens blaring and a police car that screamed past us and […]