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Monthly Archives: August 2007
thank bosch its friday!
great excitement as chris took delivery of our new washing machine. a bad month to need to buy one, but the last one we bought v cheaply 12 years ago thinking it wouldn’t last long. anyway, chris did a fair bit of work tidying the room of doom.
when i came home from work [early] chris’s parents wre there having come to take abot 20 fish out of the 30 chris picked up last night for their pond. SB had done some more maths and was doing loads of cbeebies. BB was poisson rouging and starfalling. We chatted, I read lots of books, SB did some handwriting practice. watched some kleine hippo.
went into the garden to pick veg for tea. lots of french and runner beans, a carrot!! [first of season] and some onions. the sweetcorn seem to be coming back to life – good-oh.
bB helped me cook tea, and then both played various games – next to each other but not together. rather cutely BB will often refrain what SB has said – she so adores her sister. then mayhem outsider.
BB fell asleep over tea, and SB and i? sorted out the crafts cupboard and science shelf – meant she found my hidden fimo stash!! but all much better organised, even if some of it unusual, as SB was quite clear where she wanted things.
OK, so this is a boring blog post, but actually i had a very nice normal kinda day, a bit of work and more home. i need more normal days!
bene gesserit litany against fear
i remembered this, and Jax mentioned it on her blog, so i thought I’d put it here as a reminder
LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear – From Frank Herbert’s Dune Book Series
? 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert
Published by Putnam Pub Group
ISBN: 0399128964
Posted in General
transistors and fimo
woke up with my brain obviously 2 sizes to big for skull, from the amount of pounding to escape that was going on. so decided that really only option was to swig pills and collapse in bed, which I did. A rather bad day to be off sick really but can’t be helped. i eventually surfaced at 2-ish, not feeling brill, but BB very insistent.
So read books, SB and BB did lots on the ‘puter. SB had done some maths earlier. SB and BB going through an awkward phase of shrieking, screaming and wailing at each other. not good for mummy’s with migraines.
got them set up with painting, and then went for some more quiet option. Then to GP’s for hosp referral. When I returned, to bring tranquility, I thought we could do the brainbox electronic kit. not quite so tranquil as SB chose to make the transistor radio, and there was a fair bit of shrieking argument over who was going to build each bit. But they did mostly do it cooperatively, and it worked. we then turned it into what SB called ‘half a telephone’ and took turns being the shouter or listener. rather cool kit.
BB seems to have a particular fascination with making things work and joining them together. I guess that we didn’t have the same toy around for SB at her age, and she had lots of fun with happy street, train tracks etc so i can’t compare. But she does seem to have? joy in making things work.
a quick tidy up and dinner, then when BB collapsed asleep, SB and i did fimo.? together. she wanted to make things to sell, and has done lots of twiddle things. so this time we made coasters and decorated a jar. Bedtime, reading and now prison break.
oh, and Chris has brought back some fish for our pond
Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, General, literacy, numeracy, science
a merry day
chris played gallant hero and networked up a system. girls played. adults chatted. lovely day, and i left with empty hands for a change. this month just too expensive, what with parties, kelmarsh, new washing machine, car insurance etc. have an xmas list!!
rahter laughingly, we got home with SB complaining she didn’t do any fimo, so we had a fimofest last night. I made a keyring for a friend’s leaving present. Both girls donelots of reading. SB ate 12 mini spring rolls – we were all really hoping for one.
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