Catching up -last week november

Oh dear, I got to a blah moment, stopped blogging, and here I am, weeks behind again. So in this time, what has happened? well, SB continues working on classical civ, french and also ran biology and geography! not doing quite as much clarinet as i would like as her exam coming up. we are sort of hanging on with doing maths, but all other things seem to not be happening. this is in part as some she only does with me, and so many evenings she is out from when i come home until her bedtime at cadets or judo [2 and 1 eves] and done lots of cadet things at the weekends, including a really interesting communication day. She is really getting a lot from cadets and has applied for their marching band thing, so that is all really positive [even if ginormous time commitment] and she is also now good at ironing and polishing shoes! I am consciously not worrying about slippage of timetable on geog and biol [am i kidding anyone?]

BB has ground to a halt home ed wise. it is difficult sometimes to maintain momentum, and i am perpetually busy at working, and DH is still finding his feet after the loss of his dad. She is doing lots of reading, drawing, lego and minecraft/terraria. she is also writing most days into a diary and when reminded, doing piano and maths. Oh dear.

However, we have done some trips and joint things!

One trip was a daytrip into London to the cartoon museum. they looked around hogarth answering some questions and then moved on to making their own charicature cartoon person, helped by someone dh thought was your ultimate archetypal cartoonist! both girls very much enjoyed it, and got a lot from the session. they then went on to the british museum before coming home, having had a fab day.

as usual, multisports and conservation group also happened. I think on the weds we did a working hard home ed day!

at the weekend though it was tree decoration and making secret santa time! for te tree dec, bb pretended to be a bauble shop, sb was the interior designer and i was the buyer. it was quite fun . for my secret santa, i upcycled a 7 up bottle and then filled it with a spicy seed mix.

sunday we went to see murmurations, and did actually get to see them too!! [tho quite dark] we went to the rspb reserve with the manor borns and did a very muddy walk first! and saw not a lot from the hide either! m and i had a good old talk as we went round,a s not seen each other for ages. C and SB also had a good natter and BB was remarkably happy dancing between the 2 of us! DH and M bringing up the rear. We nearly missed the murmurations as it was getting so dark most people had gone home. i wish the sky had been less cloudy so we could have seen them better tho. home for a meal and more chat.