off work

and feel like a complete failure and fraud about it, rather than making the most of it. i guess if i was in the position to enjoy it, then i wouldn’t be having it, perhaps. Went to GP with headache, dizziness and nausea, and got on to all the other bits and GP felt that perhaps i needed some enforced slow down time.
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whilst i was doing that, and then going back to bed to sleep, as left in a far more topsy turvey mental state then went to the GP!, the girls went to nanna and grandads with chris. they baked a cake, bb read a book, and sb did some maths i think. home in time for ballet.

anyway, today SB complained that all she had done all day was home ed. SO i said good, well done! cousins are coming at the weekend, and I thought some whip cracking in sept would hopefully make us productive, as when we get near xmas… so we story of the worlded this morning, SB still wants to do book 3 – so we had fire and plague, then book 1 with SB and BB on the egyptians [still on catchup!] since we all enjoy snuggling and doing this, i can’t see it as a reason to complain! she then did some more of her scraperfoil rabbit, and BB her window mosaic – this is home ed, but is this a reason to complain??

we went out and sorted out skittles hutch and run whilst at vet, and discussed his snip – BB entirely intrigued! and then the portions of snowy’s that won’t disturb new babies – as still doing well. the bigger babies adorable, tho snowy a bit nippy currently – new baby nerves no doubt! think flopsy a v well mannered soft and strokeable black with perky ears, fudge and longhaired lop – may end up being a lionlop [possibly colour a frost point? no idea], dora a perky eared adventurous one, may be blue magpie or broken blue looking at other pics, v lovely!, and shadow, is def a lionhead, you can see the rufflies around his/her neck! sort of dipdyed, as gets darker towards head!![hmm, might be sort of a sable marten] the new babes are balck bodied and pink bodied currently, so need to see what they become! ANyway, we did a bit of on the hoof genetics with ear floppiness. i have no idea, but looking at ours and knowing the grandparents, we surmised there were 2 ear genes – l[lop] and p[perky] and since a lop plus perky grandparents gave perky snowy, and lop gave lop skittles, and amongst all the kids 1 lop, we thought lop may be recessive, as all the kits must have an ‘l’ from skittles and a ‘p’ or an ‘l’ from snowy. is this some home ed to complain about??? [colour genetics! lol!!]

SB did some galore park english – OK, she is not fond of doing the english, so we do this in tiny small chunks! and today, i suggested she now needs to start writing the answers in sentences – did NOT go down well! fair enough, complain, but it was only short! the she did the 2007 primary maths challenge paper [first time she has had a go at these] and only got 16, but she did make some silly mistakes, and a couple of things we haven’t done for a while or not at all, so think she should do a bit better. we entered her anyway, and she hopes to get between 18 and 20 if possible. [ie she would like to get a bronze certificate like chloe did!] so i encouraged her to do a bit of maths prac. she did the whole thing in about 15 mins, so perhaps going back and taking time might have helped. At this point we were also in the bathroom, as BB didn’t want to have her bath alone, and SB didn’t want to be in the playroom alone as we have painters doing the windows in the sittingroom… so the primary maths challenge paper liberally sprinkled with bath water!

ANyway, next we did piano prac together, me and SB, and we have to decide this week whether to work hard and do grade 1 this time, which is do-able, partic if i have more time at home, or whether to do next term? I am tempted just to do it, as she has remained disappointed we didn’t do the grade 1 clarinet. she may get a pass rather than a merit, but i am not sure that she minds. and then she went swimming, and BB and I baked a cake. I do have to say, that there was lots of playing, whizzing about, dancing, singing and cuddling in amongst this strenuous education!

Skittles returned, tea was had, watched the fish episode of the free david attenborough dvd‘s and then the girls played ‘sperming’ eggs i think obviously the rabbits have caught their imagination, and there is always loads of procreation on natural history dvd’s!