Month: April 2016
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Thanks Everyone!
Gary is out of surgery and groggy but well. It all seems to have gone to plan, and he will hopefully be back home tomorrow <3 Thank you all so much for your prayers <3
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Please can you pray?
The severe abdominal cramps Gary was having yesterday turned out to be acute appendicitis. He has been in hospital since yesterday and is due to have it removed shortly. Please can you pray all goes well? Gary seems more concerned about how hungry he is :), but us girls (especially the younger two) are quite […]
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Precious Moments
This week has been full of delicious learning mixed with some very frustrating home ‘improvements’. The bath, which already had a broken side panel and broken plug, suddenly gave up the will to live splitting by the taps and leaking water down the back wall and into the living room. We bit the bullet and […]
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Making Chemistry More Understandable
I took chemistry for both GCSE and A Level. I didn’t understand any of it! The GCSE I basically learned the text-book and then A Level, well one needed a bit more understanding than mere memory and, whilst I passed and got the grades I needed for uni, let’s just say my Chemistry A Level […]
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Heeeelp…….
Okay, so I began crocheting. I thought it looked really easy and the end product looked so professional, so I bought my wool (100% cotton) and my crochet hook (of undefined size) and excitedly began. Only I really did not understand the youtube videos. So I bought a book. It was for beginners, and apparently […]
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Simple Art Study: Norman Rockwell
L13 is currently working her way through a simple study of the great artists. She studies one artist per week and her goal is to learn one new technique with each study. Recently, she studied Norman Rockwell using the excellent and free art lessons from Concordia University: The lesson, which I downloaded and printed out for […]
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Activity Based Learning: Building Skills for the Future
Oooh, I’m just a little bit excited about this coming week! As the saying goes, a change is as good as a rest, and apart from 30 minutes of maths and working on some review products, we are looking forward to a bit of fun this week! Because there are, like, a zillion activities to […]
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Seasons of Joy Weekly Journal
Thursday night L woke me at 3. Inwardly I groaned. It had taken me a while to switch off that night and I felt like I’d only just got to sleep. But she had just had a nose bleed. As she had been asleep when it happened, she hadn’t been able to stem the bleeding […]
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Precious Moments
The biggest news this week is that we have finally got the base down for our teen nook and man cave for the bottom of our garden! The week began with dismantling the small rotten shed we had and smashing up its concrete base, to be incorporated into the larger, soon to be laid, concrete […]
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Reflections on the Past Three Weeks
I can’t believe a whole three weeks has passed! Where on earth does time go? I am reposting our goals for these past three weeks with the ones we achieved crossed out. I am hoping this will show me what we are managing and what we maybe need a bit more work on. My other […]