In many ways, my blogging goals will be the most difficult to achieve due to that ever elusive time. Yet these are important to me. I've missed being part of the blogging world and I've missed having a full set of posts to track the year and prompt my ever diminishing memory 😉 So, without…
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New Year Goals: Family
These five family goals are probably more important to me than my personal goals. Last term was so incredibly busy we struggled to eat together at the table, or spend any time together just having fun. I can see as the teens get ever older and become more and more separate from the family (for…
New Year Goals: Personal
This is a quickie post to document my goals for this year. I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying through some of the more unbalanced areas of my life. The following goals, therefore, attempt to address these issues. Read one book a week: I asked (and received) lots of books for Christmas,…
Happy New Year…
...from my family to yours! Normal posting will start again tomorrow. Here's to a great year ahead!
Interest-Led Learning for Teenagers: An Interview with Thomas
Describe how your school has changed over the past few years? It has become harder as we have approached IGCSEs. We have to set our own goals and fulfill them. It was waaay more hands on when we were younger, now it is less so. I like a balance of hands on and book study.…
Interest Led Homeschooling Teens: Interview with Charlotte
Describe how your school has changed over the past few years? It is more serious now. I can choose the subjects I do with a view to the future, and also when I do them. It is less hands on and more book learning, which is just the type of learning I like to do.…
Seasons of Joy: The (Im)possibility of Self-Control
The last time I wrote about my battle with weight it was to share how far God had taken me, and what I perceived to be the impossible journey ahead, now that I realised it all boiled down to self control. My word for 2017 is self control. I haven't even started teaching with the…
Les Miserables – What a Treat!
Happy sigh. What an incredible time we all had in London on Saturday. Back in April we had bought tickets to go and see Les Miserables in the West End to celebrate Charlotte reading Hugo Victor's book by the same name. It would be an early 14th birthday present for the twins and an early…
That’s My Girl!
Song comes onto the radio... Charlotte, squealing: Oh, this is my boyfriend's and my song! Me, at the computer,looking up in surprise shock: Eh?! Thomas: What's it called? Me, almost apoplectic, trying to get myself together to exclaim 'what boyfriend?!' The tune begins. I relax and giggle... Charlotte, with an obvious smile in her voice:…
Why Angelicscalliwags?
Inspired by Ticia's post about why she called her blog Adventures in Mommydom, I thought I would share why I called my blog Angeliscalliwags and why on earth I spell it differently to how the dictionary spells it 🙂 https://angelicscalliwags.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/family-and-party-pics-186.jpg Slightly less than a decade ago I had three five year olds. I knew we…
Broken Vessels
I posted this on my face book page a week or so ago: “Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's…
New Beginnings
We live close enough to London that the speed with which Londoners live their lives trickles into the mentality of our village. Perfection and 'getting it right' pervade expectations. I am not a high achiever. I live a small life. A life of great importance, but only to a small amount of people. And that…
Really?!
Charlotte, after an afternoon at the swimming pool with her friends, wearing exactly the same swimming costume as her twin sister: 'We were admiring our swimming costumes in the mirror before we went in, and, oh my goodness Mummy, we looked so alike no-one could have told us apart.....' Paused for a thoughtful second: 'It's…
From a Tiny Acorn Mighty Oaks Grow
A week or so ago I was in the kitchen creating some sedimentary rock with bones buried or half buried inside (like you do). In order to create one of the layers I needed to mix some earth with the plaster. I popped outside to find some and came across a pot with some lovely…
Reader Question: How Do You Manage Chores and Pocket Money ?
This would be another fairly regular question I am asked. A couple of years ago I wouldn't have been able to give a definitive answer because I hadn't quite found a comfortable place to sit with regards to chores and money. The past year or so things have settled into a really helpful and healthy…