After a very difficult few weeks over May and June, I have felt so overwhelmingly blessed by God’s presence and His love. Today is, I think, is a new beginning in many ways. The rain has cleared the fog and the sunshine is once more shining into the heart of my life. This week has……
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Precious Memories
This week has been all about the Victorians and writing, writing and more writing. Thing is, pictures of everyone writing are not very interesting so photos are a bit thin on the ground. Although we are officially celebrating Father’s Day this weekend by a trip to the beach and lunch out (a huge treat for……
Precious Moments
I seem to running around, trying to catch myself up, right now, so I have decided over the summer I will just be posting my weekly precious moments posts, as well as any reviews I need to do for the TOS crew. I need to slow down a little, and one way I can do……
Precious Moments
This week has been the last week before our ten week summer writing program begins, and I should have done a stack of work to prepare for it. Instead I have been luxuriating in the gorgeousness that is my life and getting thoroughly behind on all things writing. We have had a really lovely relaxing……
Precious Moments
Oooh, I’m so behind. I feel like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland: The date? My precious Moments post of course! All of the UK has been on half term and whilst I hadn’t planned for us to be doing very little all week, the children’s friends were all off school and available to play,……
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Last week began with a pink piggy party! Nik’s son is mad about pigs and as it was his 12th birthday coming up we decided to celebrate in pink piggy style! I wasn’t entirely sure how a 12-year-old boy would react to such an onslaught of pink, but I needn’t have worried, he loved it……
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After a sad Friday (which I won’t go into as other people are involved), we were gifted with a weekend full of friends and busy-ness which was just what we needed. Sunday we all had a lovely day at church, followed by fellowship with another homeschooling family as they joined us for an impromptu picnic……
Precious Moments
The week began rather well when we had an impromptu picnic Sunday afternoon. We invited Leah, Jonathan and their two girls (same age as my two youngest). Half way through I brought out the science bucket for them all to make some garden potions. They had a whale of a time, made a huge amount……
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Last Thursday Gary paced the rooms of our house trying to shift pain which he put down to indigestion. It was bad enough that at one point he was on the kitchen floor writhing in pain, but he also took himself off to work the next morning, not having managed to get any sleep. His……
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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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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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The week began with the local pet shop celebrating being open for a year. We happened to find out about it whilst B5 and I were buying dog bones (for our paleontology dig!) and the lady gave B an invitation. Well, B talked of nothing else all week, and how she had been invited to……
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The week before last we had our very first ever staycation. It was to save money, but I personally think it would have cost less to have gone away on a cruise! Well, not really but I’m thinking our staycation wasn’t a terribly frugal one 🙂 It was, however, one full of fun and laughter……
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I’m not sure why, but I was particularly looking forward to Mother’s Day this year. Whether it was my littlest’s sudden understanding of what Mother’s Day is, and her interest of when Daughter’s Day is (and could she please have some candy floss bought in for her special day 😉 ), or the fact that……
Precious Memories
Another fabulous week! We have all been hard at work, and enjoying ourselves thoroughly. We seem to be whizzing through all the work I had planned and the children (some of whom are not really children anymore) have produced some top notch work. On Sunday we spent the day at Wisley spending some time in……