This week was a bit ticking over home ed i think. SO have to do a bit better next 
however, was a pretty busy one, and the end of the week was taken in making and crafting for second xmas with the inlaws. Daddybean made some fab preserves, SB some fudge and peppermint creams, and BB some choc for cousin A. I had a v busy end of work week really, and felt that i hadn’t touched base with kids/family since weds science is v ‘worky’ for me, with not much non teaching time, and then i rushed off to meetings, and thurs and fri were also late finishes 
Just struggling with an hours in the day deficit i think!
Anyway, yest off to celebrate xmas with daddybeans family. BB bit slow to ‘warm up’ really, and i think effected by lack of mummytime, so we did lots of cuddling. SB warmed up cousin A, so soon they were having a fab time. SB is so great with little children, prob cos of her caring and easygoing nature. SB pleased with her presents, and BB partic happy with a glow in the dark dinosaur jigsaw which she nearly completed before home time. A was v happy with the passing down of the leappad as well as a rubens barn doll. SO a lovely afternoon spent, and home with v tired girls who both fell asleep in the car
Sunday we had arranged to go geocaching with lecielrouge and their new dog skipper! [v brave of me as i am somewhat nervous of dogs 
] Z smiled the marina man into letting us park and we set off. nice easy geocaches to find, with treasure to swap BB was Not In The Mood for walking – apparently she wanted to do a craft kit with me. if she had let me know we could have taken something with us to do at Z’s . Skipper was a bit of a nightmare for trying to race away, so sure z and w have pulled shoulders now .we had a moment of panic over getting onto busway, but all ok, and once on BB improved hugely. We found all the caches, one v v cleverly hidden, and we also dropped off our historyetc TB. We debated going to an off route cache, and today one of SB’s TB’s was placed in it! nice cup of tea revival at cafe at end before back to lecielrouge for v yummy curry kids then played various games including wii, whilst we played tcket to ride, american version. great day! BB wailed all the way home tho – pretty tired! so we snuggled before bedtime. My prep for appraisal has gone for a burton as run out of paper – eek!! sent everything to work, and hoping to print there, otherwise stuffed