Month: November 2017
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Yearly Wrap Up {2017}
As this year comes to an end, I am left pondering where it has gone… It seems like I have blinked and Thomas has become a young man, Charlotte and Lillie young ladies; A9 has crept into adolescence with her usual placidity and B6 is no longer a toddler, her podginess has left her and […]
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Precious Moments: Reflecting
Last Saturday night Gary and I were attending a close friend’s 40th birthday. There were lots (and lots) of people and usually I would find every excuse possible not to go. This friend however knows my propensity to opt out of large gatherings and made me promise I’d go. So I did 🙂 Whilst we […]
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Interviewing the Sassy Sol!
Each Thursday the older girls get out of maths to spend some time doing a bit of school work with the little ones. They are (un)surprisingly enthusiastic about this. I mean no maths….what more needs to be said? This morning they were putting on a reader’s theatre type play as Charlotte became an interviewer and […]
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One Girl, One Passion, One World
For the past couple of years my youngest twin has been passionate about the plight of trafficked humans and human slavery. At 13 (when this notion of slavery really took off) I wasn’t sure what I should be doing – encouraging her or dissuading her. I mean human trafficking is a sordid, excruciatingly painful and […]
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Forgetting about the urgent and concentrating on the important…
It has been no secret that I am struggling for time right now. Our lives have become a type of busyness that I always promised myself would not be a part of my life. Yet we have become sucked in somehow. And I wonder how it got so out of hand. Nothing we do is […]
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Precious Moments Over the Past Few Weeks
We’ve all been beavering away for the past few weeks, the older ones on their IGCSEs and the younger ones on their Life of Fred Maths, Astronomy and Ancient Egypt. Everyone is involved in the up and coming production of Raggedy Doll at our local theatre, whether it be in sound and lighting (Gary and […]
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Precious Moments: Holiday in Northern Ireland
Welcome to my precious moments post, a few weeks too late but nevertheless here now 🙂 I am struggling so much to find the time to do everything I need to do. I understand now why home school bloggers of older children tend to write fewer posts. Even though my three older ones are to […]
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The Magic Stories {Review}
Today I want to introduce you to The Magic Stories from Allsaid & Dunn, LLC, publishers of The Reading Game and authors of the Wordly Wise series. The Magic Stories are an additional supplementary reading program, and follow up Allsaid & Dunn’s The Reading Game. However, you do not need to have used The Reading […]