So, last Saturday we went aboard the ferry home, crossing from Belfast to Liverpool overnight. Gary slept with the older ones in a cabin, I slept with the littles in another cabin. It was a stormy night, which the little ones slept dead to the world the whole way through. Unlike their mother and…
Category: Precious Moments
Precious Moments
Apologies if this was posted twice or you received duplicate copies. When I posted it the first time it came up with a 2nd September date, which was wrong. So I reposted. With the correct date. I hope. Not sure though....don't really know what I'm doing half the time! This week started off with a bang…
Precious Memories
This week we have been inching ourselves back into full-time school with Maths, morning meetings, and A5's reading, writing and arithmetic. It has been really good to be back working again. Even though we only had 2 weeks off it was enough to refuel my tank and regain my enthusiasm for home school as well as allow…
Precious Moments
This week has been the week of very little computer or screen time. I wrote on Tuesday about how we were all limiting it, including Gary and I. I was finding it hard enough to fit in blogging since I have been using the night-time hour to, you know, sleep. Cutting our computer time down to…
Precious Memories
I love these precious memory posts because they give me an opportunity to look over the week and remember. They are a chance to soak up the beauty of our lives together, not perfect by any means but special none the less. There are moments I capture on camera that by the end of the week…
Precious Moments
It's been another quiet week on the school side of things but very noisy on the coughing side of things with all of us down, to some degree, with a cold and flu type bug. I am once again so grateful to have Gary as my husband. For the two days I was feeling rotten…
Precious Memories
This was such a great week this week. We got loads done, had lots of free time and enjoyed each other thoroughly! My photos begin on Saturday. Saturdays are generally recognised as family work days in our house hold. This is our chance to wash cars, clean out animal living areas, wash bedding, garden, and…
Precious Memories
This week has not been one of our academic successes. We often get weeks when one or other of us have absolutely no desire to work. This is normal and with the help of the others, the lethargic one is buoyed into action and the week remains fairly productive even for the reluctant child/adult. Very…
Precious Moments
This week has been all about our new school room. We had hoped to have it finished by now but we are nowhere near it. Everything takes so much longer when you have five children needing your attention. We have almost finished our science nook: 1) Gary is working on some shelves which we will use…
Precious Moments
This week has been a bit slow in the school department with much of my time taken up creating a new learning space out of our old hallway. The reason for doing this is to have a quiet place for the older ones to study, away from the little ones when necessary and also it…
Precious Moments #4
Well, I had just covered The Snowy Day in our tot school and preschool, having planned it perfectly to coincide with some snow we were due to get. The plans of mice and men and all that.....the snow didn't happen but the unit study had to (nothing else planned). So we went ahead without the…
Precious Moments #3
Every week I organise a full week of enjoyment for my little ones. I don't want to let even a moment slip by out of my reach without my actions or my words speaking love to my family. The older children absorb my enthusiasm, I think, and throw themselves, very unselfishly into making sure their little…
Precious Moments #2
In February of last year I started a blog for my children. I had just been diagnosed with a cancer which had spread locally but doctors couldn’t tell me if it had spread systemically. I wanted a way for the children to be able to look back and remember all the wonderful things we did…
Precious Moments # 1.5
Here is the magic that happens outside of lessons: Our beautiful C10 This has been a wondrously busy week, filled with trips, family and a little one year old who matured in front of our very eyes. We are all tired, but very content and looking forward to the new term. B1, who is now talking Last…