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I am not impatient, oh no!!

i am, however, wondering whether i can get away with negligible sleep – i don’t think so though!

American Dreams hey!

i have just been on the phone to MIL about various family health issues ongoing, and she told me about a conversation she had had with a church friend – it seems we have converted her into a pro HE radical! I am glad about this – it is upsetting that my parents steadfastly – with no evidence! – feel we are doing the wrong thing by HE. it isn’t really pointful to discuss it, as they just DO believe this, and if there are any glitches of any kind, it is always because we HE and school would be better now chris’s niece and nephew were initially HE, and chris’s parents were very unhappy about this, they were far more autonomously HE and v much more rural isolated, so not the same, but i was concerned about how they would feel about us doing it. I think they had reservations, but we are diff parents of diff children, and although we don’t homeschool, and are pretty child led, and if we amass 1 hour of formal stuff in a day it seems we have done well, i think the fact that then there is so much other stuff that being closer and more involved in our lives they can see the educational value of [ie the cooking and games etc] that we obviously have not only convinced them it is ok, but enough for them to say it is def better than school!! euge! [sorry for extremely long sentence!]

today the girls have made birthday presents for josie [sorry merry, but you need to prewarn a smile and a thankyou i think! i have a bought 'family present' too, but the girls were so pleased to be offering something they had made, and it does have a lot of counting thoughts, as it is most of this afternoon in the idea then making] SB done some maths – area – and piano, and a swimming lesson and reading like there was no tomorrow – a mixture of history, science and story books. BB has been a pickle, made rockets at the library group, and persuaded me into letting her do ‘bedmaths’ – a high treat!!

hopefully done properly!
SO, a catch up, where were we?? hmm, i will do a brief summary for chris’s days, he might add to it, and might well not!

Thursday was film education week, and the girls and chris went to wall E [in city 1], and def enjoyed it. no time to stop and relax though, as a rush back to BB’s gym [which she adores, and spent some time rolling over a ball and beaming - well thats what she said!] followed by a play on some swings within walking distance, and then SB’s gym class [also much enjoyed, more beaming!] [this is town 1]

Friday, hmm, yes, it was off in entirely other direction [city 2] for the other not-so-local group meeting on Kenya, which was also v much enjoyed. girls disappointed that Merry’s lot not there, as not managed to meet up for ages. there were apparently some very yummy donut-like treats made, which we are going to have a go at at home.

for me, the first week back at work from annual leave is always difficult. i am reminded of how much i would like to be a SAHM for a bit, and how much i love spending time with my children, HE, crafting and just chatting, rather than the evening time when i am frazzled after a hard day at work, and they are grumpy about whatever.

so, yay, the weekend! i had a lie in, and the girls played. we were going to go to city 1 for a prehistory day, but somehow didn’t get our enthusiasm up! it being the first migraine free day for me, i wanted to be stress free, and chris didn’t fancy it. instead, after doing various home ed things – including more halloween fimo! we went to a fair in town 1! SB is a total daredevil for fairground rides, something she definitely doesn’t get from this motion and height sick/phobic parent!! BB was also eventually persuaded on some rides, which she enjoyed, after a trampolining start. there was a bungee trampline that SB entirely adored. an easy way to spend £15 in no time at all really. We did have to have a short word with SB when she moaned about using up one of her rides to go on something with BB, but she did it, and then perked up again. We had words with both of them when we went to the chippery restaurant in town to finish the day. I don’t know, but SB used to be fine to take anywhere, and now she is distinctly awkward in restaurants, and with the messing about, eating messily and squawking it just is not fun. SO, in killjoy mood, i have banned eating out until further notice [not that it is a common event!] chris and i – however, tempted by a turkish restaurant in town 2, but will get his parents to babysit so that we actually enjoy it. i can’t remember when we last went out on our own.

Sat evening was spent wondering why i don’t file things for my tax return, and how come there are so many places to lose bits of paper!!

Sunday and we went to little nanny’s. hooray! visit long overdue, and she was very glad to see us, and we her. the girls were both delightful, bb mostly self absorbed in her games, and SB and Nanny playing rummy, ludo and draughts. BB and i joined in for ludo too. i made myself useful .

today has been a lot of chilling and shopping i think. allegedly some bedroom space was tidied, but it isn’t ver apparent!

on a regular home ed front, SB has enjoyed doing the wizard whimstaff spelling most days, and either singapore maths 2B or wizard whimstaff maths [just for the fun of a format change] we have done some piano, violin and recorder practice, a bit of latin and french. fun with pattern blocks and tangrams, she has done my h2opia and myfarm on facebook, and fantastic contraptions and watched a lot of junior jackanory. BB has also done some before the code, pattern blocks, lots and lots of reading, recorder practice and just playing.

when either chris blogs, or i finish by tax return

we love this book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

or do we love it this way