Bad start to the day, and I am not one to moan usually. but (there is always a but) was up at 4.30 so he could head off and catch a flight to Scotland for three days. He has left us in chaos (not his fault), we were waiting for the paint to dry on the floor in one of the bedrooms and last night it was still tacky. So I had the prospect of moving two beds this morning with 11yo DS. he tries you know, but 11yo just dont have experience in furniture moving, and now I think I have pulled a muscle. Other DS is very load and active this morning, where is Super Nanny when you need her?
Well I had better get my butt of this seat and go get some decent clothes on. My friend is coming today to help out a bit, she does cleaning for me too ... works both ways I get stuff done she gets £££.
COME BACK DH - ALL IS FORGIVEN!
Monday, 14 April 2008
Sunday, 13 April 2008
A peg too close! 13th April 2008
Look at this!
This yellow peg which is from one of those picture maker toys. This peg ended up side aways up my Seb's nose. Funny - yeah right! I put him for time out, he was being stupid and the sad thing is I cannot even remember now why he was in time out. Time out is our porch, some people have a naughty step but us - the porch! Its got a glass door where you can keep an eye on 'them' when they are in time out! YEAH RIGHT! There is a 8 foot tall plant in there too - Arthur, he looks after the children when they have been naughty. If the kids mess about in time out Arthur tends to fall over so they daren't move an inch. Well - after a moment or two in the porch my 4 year old started yelling, I called him him and saw he had a bloody nose. Wondered what he was up to, I was also half way through doing Sol's nappy change so I made him stand still and be quiet while I finished up. I managed to get a few sobs about a toy up his nose, and sure enough I looked and there it was. He kept sniffing but thankfully it was wedged side aways so could not go up any further. I yelled for No1 son to go looking in my little pen basket for a pair of tweezers - I just put them there a couple days ago .... thank goodness. and we got Seb up on the kitchen stool and performed the surgery.
Crying afterwards he was complaining about me sticking tweezers up his nose - ungrateful boy! His nose bled off and on all day, the peg cut him while it was coming back down but there wasn't much I could do about that.
This yellow peg which is from one of those picture maker toys. This peg ended up side aways up my Seb's nose. Funny - yeah right! I put him for time out, he was being stupid and the sad thing is I cannot even remember now why he was in time out. Time out is our porch, some people have a naughty step but us - the porch! Its got a glass door where you can keep an eye on 'them' when they are in time out! YEAH RIGHT! There is a 8 foot tall plant in there too - Arthur, he looks after the children when they have been naughty. If the kids mess about in time out Arthur tends to fall over so they daren't move an inch. Well - after a moment or two in the porch my 4 year old started yelling, I called him him and saw he had a bloody nose. Wondered what he was up to, I was also half way through doing Sol's nappy change so I made him stand still and be quiet while I finished up. I managed to get a few sobs about a toy up his nose, and sure enough I looked and there it was. He kept sniffing but thankfully it was wedged side aways so could not go up any further. I yelled for No1 son to go looking in my little pen basket for a pair of tweezers - I just put them there a couple days ago .... thank goodness. and we got Seb up on the kitchen stool and performed the surgery.
Crying afterwards he was complaining about me sticking tweezers up his nose - ungrateful boy! His nose bled off and on all day, the peg cut him while it was coming back down but there wasn't much I could do about that.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
10th April 2008
Reaching the point of inner contentment with regard to our children's education has been a long road. Forgive me if I don't make sense here, I do understand what I am trying to say even if no one else does.
It seems to me the last few months has been an extremely steep learning curve for our family. We became home educators in early 2007 - quite by accident need I add and here we are over a year on and just feeling great about it all.
What can be more liberating than just taking control of what your children learn, see & do? Who wants to be sending children into the schools we live so they can have a 1 in 3 chance of being bullied, worse still being the bullies. With 4 children that's a big risk, a big risk that something bad will happen to one of my 4 most precious things in my life. Would you let your kids go somewhere if they had a 1 in 3 chance of being damaged? Who wants to send them to school where they have a 2 out of 5 chance of leaving school not being able to read or write sufficiently well to get some basic qualifications? I think we will take our chances at home - thank you very much.
It seems to me the last few months has been an extremely steep learning curve for our family. We became home educators in early 2007 - quite by accident need I add and here we are over a year on and just feeling great about it all.
What can be more liberating than just taking control of what your children learn, see & do? Who wants to be sending children into the schools we live so they can have a 1 in 3 chance of being bullied, worse still being the bullies. With 4 children that's a big risk, a big risk that something bad will happen to one of my 4 most precious things in my life. Would you let your kids go somewhere if they had a 1 in 3 chance of being damaged? Who wants to send them to school where they have a 2 out of 5 chance of leaving school not being able to read or write sufficiently well to get some basic qualifications? I think we will take our chances at home - thank you very much.
A VISIT FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY
We had a visit from the tooth fairy this week. And what a drama one wobbly tooth can cause too, my dd took several days out from real life to walk around with her hands clamped tightly over her mouth so her tooth would not fall out. She was terrified, and boy did she let us know. no sleep, no eating - she would not do anything.
So in the end the bad mommy that I am got my friend to hold her hands and I pulled the tooth out. After the initial shock she was the proudest girl in the world.
Strangest thing is that her replacement tooth is now growing in the gap, but her other new front tooth is actually growing behind her other milk teeth. I am sure they will straighten up, but it still is odd.
Monday, 17 March 2008
17th March 08 - DISASTER STRIKES
Our fishtank broke! Well cracked, leaked ... luckily I noticed it fairly quickly and luckily we had a spare tank in the garage, and luckily husband was there on hand! It was late Sunday evening where I popped into out TV room to lock the interior doors as our heating had gone off. The interior doors divide the house and when they are open its cooler as the back of the house is not sheltered from the weather. I noticed the water level had dropped in the tank and realised something wasn't right. Looked down the back and it was trickling down through all the electrical stuff for the tank, and making a real mess of the floor. The water had also penetrated the cupboards under the tank and several books were ruined.
So we spent our Sunday evening negotiating a 4 foot long tank into the house, adding gravel and rescuing fish and water from the old tank.
They all survived despite their ordeal.
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Its a jungle out there!
This was such a busy day ...
This morning after the usual panic to get everyone ready and out the door we made it in good time at our destination. We went to the science museum, W5, in Belfast. The little playgroup were going, one of our children belongs to the playgroup so we had arranged to meet up at the museum and spend the day. We had a lot of fun, and at 4.30 pm we arrived home with some pizza hut pizzas, and the children were very tired and very happy.
But as I said ... IT REALLY IS A JUNGLE OUT THERE! ROAR!
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