Category: A Year in the Life

I walked out of my bedroom this morning at 715 to three girls hard at their school work. My bedroom opens out to the dining area and there they were: Charlotte translating Latin, Abigail sitting a maths test and Becca finishing off her spelling workbook. I glanced up at the clock thinking I may have…

It was the day of our visit to the next school on Charlotte's list. This was the one we both felt would be a good fit for her. It is a specialist music college, and whilst Charlotte wouldn't be studying music per se, she is very musical and it offered the Drama and Theatre Studies…

This morning went by slowly and quietly. Thomas was at college all day, so left fairly early to catch his train, and Lillie left at 7 this morning to get to work in time. With only three in the house, it felt empty and quiet. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. I mean I like…

I was feeling a bit delicate from the day before. Between the girls going to bed and me getting up, they had read yesterday's post. They were very indignant that anyone should ever make me feel that way! They reeled off more and more ways that homeschooling had been a blessing in their lives. Then…

This morning, the twins and I went to visit one of the schools Charlotte is interested in going to next September.  It was a small Christian school, and all my correspondence with the head of sixth form had been very positive. It took me an hour to get dressed.  Not an hour to get ready,…

Usually Fridays are a relaxed affair, kind of like a catch up day, making sure everything I had planned gets done. Today was no different. Charlotte worked hard at completing chapter one of her Latin textbook and her reading for classics. She had a couple of new books be delivered, one about Homer and the…

Sometimes, homeschooling is not so much about the schooling as it is about the discussions, decisions and compromises which make up the day. This morning was one of those times. Charlotte wants to go to school to do her A Levels. This is no surprise to me, and I absolutely think it is the best…

The house was very LOUD on rising this morning. So much so, I had thoughts about doing a 180 degree turn and heading straight back to bed. Alas, I had a tonne (really, the noise indicated this!) of hungry children to feed. As I moved into the kitchen I was assaulted (or, at least, my…

As is always the case on a Monday, all the girls teamed together to help Lillie finish the kitchen (chores never seem to be fully done on a Sunday evening!): Thomas: Hey mum, I'm going to spend the morning in the shed writing Me: You what now?! That's a sentence I never expected to come…

It snowed last night! And with more heavy snow forecast for later on, I have declared a snow day! Also, we are finally celebrating my mum's 75th birthday (which due to illness we have had to cancel numerous times) this afternoon, so a day off seems appropriate! Have a wonderful weekend everybody!

You know you're a home-school mum when you sneak outside at midnight and use your kitchen spatula to scrape the thin covering of snow of your mother's car to use to make a comet the next day! This post is just a quickie today. Becca was awake throughout the night feeling really rotten, and unable…