Far too many dots in this Blog
Ok so a bit more than new year :-)
What has we been doing? Well - not a huge amount. This week I've been sitting in front of the screen rather more than I should. But DD1 and I have been watching the run of St. Trinians films on channel 4 , today was number three (Pure Hell at....) so just the Colour one left to go (The Great St. Trinians Train Robbery). TBH that one is my favourite - but partly for the story and otherwise for the wonderful Frankie Howerd.
And I've been reading the two books that have arrived from Christoperus Books. More of those over on the learning blog though. Save to say that I'm very happy with them - just need to work out how to make payment for the Path of Discovery overviews that I want to get. Not that I expect any of this preparation to end up as actual education - but that some of it will transfer from me to the children in some odd, osmotic fashion. Hee Hee...... anyway they came from www.christopherushomeschool.org
Finally had the car serviced (eek!) and booked in to get the wiper arm done (more eek!) - why do these things always need doing after Christmas? - but they both needed doing before we travel north to the Scottish Borders and the Muddlepuddle winter camp. DD1 and DD2 are *really* looking forward to this. DD2 will be 4 on the day we arrive, so I have been told that I'm to make her a chocolate cake for her to share with her friends there. Not sure how I'm going to do the 'present' thing as her main present isn't something that it would be sensible to take with us - oops!
I've also decided that we are not going to be attending Greenbelt this year - I've booked us (with DP's agreement) to go on another camp over the same weekend.
(edited here as a bit personal, thanks for the heads up on that ;-)
I'm still going to offer to do the bands listings for them, and stay in contact with a view to going back next year when DS is older; and as I am the one that feels differently about the situation I need to be the one to go. And maybe God has a different set of thoughts in mind for me at Greenbelt in the future. Certainly I think that a year off (completely, not just from working) will do me good. But DD1 is distraught at not going - sometimes I think she lives from year to year to do the choir and touch base with a few people there. But I'm hoping she will come around to the idea of going elsewhere for once, and on her return she will be old enough to do the youth programme and have a bit more autonomy than she has been able to have.
Ho hum.... got all philosophical there and typed out a load of stuff I didn't mean to.... still need to pass this on to the relevent people so maybe this will all end up edited before too long.... (yep edited this a few weeks later, see above)
But more on the camp we *are* going to do instead. Tents, provided food, a holistic atmosphere and nature, nature, nature. And a lot of lovely people who are as out there as I am and then some :-) All readers of The Mother Magazine, and its publisher. And I'm quietly excited by the thought of going there, and at doing something different, and and and and and and.....
Far too many dots in this blog.
What has we been doing? Well - not a huge amount. This week I've been sitting in front of the screen rather more than I should. But DD1 and I have been watching the run of St. Trinians films on channel 4 , today was number three (Pure Hell at....) so just the Colour one left to go (The Great St. Trinians Train Robbery). TBH that one is my favourite - but partly for the story and otherwise for the wonderful Frankie Howerd.
And I've been reading the two books that have arrived from Christoperus Books. More of those over on the learning blog though. Save to say that I'm very happy with them - just need to work out how to make payment for the Path of Discovery overviews that I want to get. Not that I expect any of this preparation to end up as actual education - but that some of it will transfer from me to the children in some odd, osmotic fashion. Hee Hee...... anyway they came from www.christopherushomeschool.org
Finally had the car serviced (eek!) and booked in to get the wiper arm done (more eek!) - why do these things always need doing after Christmas? - but they both needed doing before we travel north to the Scottish Borders and the Muddlepuddle winter camp. DD1 and DD2 are *really* looking forward to this. DD2 will be 4 on the day we arrive, so I have been told that I'm to make her a chocolate cake for her to share with her friends there. Not sure how I'm going to do the 'present' thing as her main present isn't something that it would be sensible to take with us - oops!
I've also decided that we are not going to be attending Greenbelt this year - I've booked us (with DP's agreement) to go on another camp over the same weekend.
(edited here as a bit personal, thanks for the heads up on that ;-)
I'm still going to offer to do the bands listings for them, and stay in contact with a view to going back next year when DS is older; and as I am the one that feels differently about the situation I need to be the one to go. And maybe God has a different set of thoughts in mind for me at Greenbelt in the future. Certainly I think that a year off (completely, not just from working) will do me good. But DD1 is distraught at not going - sometimes I think she lives from year to year to do the choir and touch base with a few people there. But I'm hoping she will come around to the idea of going elsewhere for once, and on her return she will be old enough to do the youth programme and have a bit more autonomy than she has been able to have.
Ho hum.... got all philosophical there and typed out a load of stuff I didn't mean to.... still need to pass this on to the relevent people so maybe this will all end up edited before too long.... (yep edited this a few weeks later, see above)
But more on the camp we *are* going to do instead. Tents, provided food, a holistic atmosphere and nature, nature, nature. And a lot of lovely people who are as out there as I am and then some :-) All readers of The Mother Magazine, and its publisher. And I'm quietly excited by the thought of going there, and at doing something different, and and and and and and.....
Far too many dots in this blog.
