Category: A Year in the Life

Last night I could not get to sleep. There was no reason for this insomnia, but not being used to it anymore I felt yukky when I got up today. I was up by eight, and I walked out of my bedroom, and there was nobody around! Usually chores and half of the workbooks have…

It's just a quick post today, as everyone is out with friends for the afternoon, and we had finished most of our school for the week yesterday. I did almost finish our Passover book, went over Latin vocab, times tables and read some more about Roman houses for our unit study. I read another chapter…

Sometimes the day starts skewered, and today was that day. I woke at the fairly respectable time of seven. Within minutes I had Lillie telling me she was leaving for work, Charlotte bathed and fully dressed with chores completed joking about with an also fully dressed Thomas asking me which weekly chores I wanted him…

I woke up this morning to the littles almost done with their workbooks for the day. Apparently they'd been up early and organised their day. Hmmm. I'm fairly certain that was my job to do? Actually, they'd only planned up to the end of their work books. Y'know, dress, teeth, hair, breakfast, workbooks... Not sure…

It's been a funny ol' day today. Having been out in London yesterday, and having finished most of the home-school I had planned for the week the day before, the littles only had their work books to do. By ten they had all but finished. They had a friend coming over in the afternoon, but…

In celebration of finishing our Astronomy Unit Study, Gary and I took the girls to the Science Museum in London. We had such a great time, even though the place was heaving with visiting school children. We visited the space exploration department, as well as paying to see a 3D re-enactment of Apollo's landing on…

It's been a good day today. I captured this lovely photo of Thomas and Lillie this morning. Often the first thing Thomas does on arriving home from college is be greeted with a huge hug from one or both of his sisters: The older they get, the closer they are. I love it! My big…

'Mummy, mummy! The fish has rabies!' Charlotte squealed in my ear... 'Eh? You what now?!' 'Look, it's foaming at the mouth!' She finishes, doubling over in hysterics And so begins the cooking dinner of yesterday. Things are never boring with Charlotte around! What with foaming fish and cracked boiled eggs, and mis-timing on almost everything…

I'm going to start today's post with a photo from the weekend. One of the things I enjoy most is listening to Gary and Thomas playing and singing together. Saturday night was open mic at church and they were performing together. Unfortunately, I needed to stay home with the little ones thus missing the actual…