I am sure i must have used that blog title before as well. Life is settling into a bit of a pattern sans SB. We miss her, but have made adaptions to missing her. SO I don’t look to share with her this or that, but put it in a letter. we-ell, as we aren’t so much supposed to put home things in the letter, I write about her, what she has been doing, what i look forward to hearing, but it is all suffused with love 
. It is all made easier by knowing SB is with a lovely family. BB has settled into a pattern. this does seem to involve coming into our bedroom most nights sometime between midnight and 2am, and a lot more minecraft. She is also reaching out to friends on an internet closed friends group. Which is lovely even if the conversations are slightly off the wall 
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so this week has been a good bookish week. As going out things, BB has had art on tuesday, whwere they were drawing without looking at their paper. BB has done this a bit, and so says she is good at it I did like her drawings tho. Kfish took her as DH was waiting in for bathroom things that didn’t all come :(. Thankyou kfish . the waiting for bathroom things tho did mean that BB missed swimming – and for nothing 
Weds was wed4ed, which has had a blog post f its own. BB went to judo afterwards v happily. SHe goes in and out of wanting to do judo, but i think it is good for especially a girl to be able to throw an assailant and then run away. SHe is happy tho, and that is the main thing I think it is grading next week or on her birthday.
Thurs was a going out shopping day and friday she elected not to go bowling with the local home ed group. DH was a bit sad as I think he had looked forward to it, but BB tought it would be too many people and too noisy. She went to cubs on the thursday, which she also loves [and I am sure that is noisy!] and they made sock puppets.
There has been a lot of home ed. since she had had a previous slack week, she is seeing if she can do 5 things a day for the next two weeks. as rather a relief to us parents, she has decided that mst of what she is currently doing is quite easy . This does mean that at some point we will need to bite the bullet and make it harder – eek! – but currently she is feeling v happy with what she is doing, so will stay as we are for now.
so – french – amazingly we are doing this, a book a week. This week’s book was the weather. We go through the weather in silly and exaggerated voices several times together, and she looks at it again in the week herself going through the book, and then at the end of the week, I try and remember to do it again. Conquer maths is going v smoothly [on year 3] , explode the code is too easy really, since she can read, but I am using it for surreptitious spelling and writing practice . She is getting confident again with reading music for the piano and our latest ‘new’ piece she was happy to sight read without fuss [she has played it before mind you] . For reading to us, I bought some ORT first chapter books for her for stage 10+ Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 10+: TreeTops Time Chronicles: Pack of 6
