The squidlets are being particularly gorgeous this morning. I’m not feeling very energetic but I am feeling so depressed by the horror of this house that I’m getting stuck into it anyway, and B in particular has been a huge … Continue reading →

Since K got sick over the weekend we still haven’t settled back into a routine *sigh* I really hope we’re coming to the end of this cycle of lurgification… B went out to the farm for the weekend for a … Continue reading →

Nobody is really up to par even today (with the possible exception of K who was sick for about five minutes on Tuesday afternoon), so we haven’t done much. B didn’t go out to the farm on the grounds that … Continue reading →

B woke in the night with a fever, and she’s still mildly feverish this morning but seems happy. She got up before any of us and was reading Goblet of Fire in front of the heater when I got up … Continue reading →

The gap in my blog last week actually does have a reasonable explanation this time – I had the lurgi first. Thursday morning we did do a bit more maths – B breezed through another repetition of the Smartkiddies 4-digit … Continue reading →

B has the lurgi so stayed home from pottery today. She spent a fair bit of time on her puter searching Youtube (mostly for Goodies episodes, I think), and playing Rune Scape, but also tucked herself up in bed this … Continue reading →

ABA meeting in the morning meat it was 12pm before K and I were doing anything together. We built a tall marble run and had fun with that for ages. Read lots of books. Took a nap together (and for … Continue reading →

fed chickens did the Quiz at the end of Module One on Smartkiddies (scored 9/10) read 1 paragraph Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HPGF) – she hated reading aloud, so sat and read to herself and asked for … Continue reading →

In draft form because I’m knackered. May come back and expand some other time… Monday: out at farm all day and overnight because she had a brief tummy bug on Sunday night while she was out there. I don’t think … Continue reading →

On Friday morning we spent ages wrestling with reading. Her feelings of being scared of books came up to the surface and I tried to get her to process them (not sure how successfully). She said she wanted to try … Continue reading →