Life, Love & Literature

Not been a great week, not a bad one at all but not one I look back on and think ‘yes, got this sorted’.

Week­end was dif­fi­cult, again noth­ing par­tic­u­larly bad about it.  Kids just pressed the wrong but­tons a bit, I was just tired I expect (although Pete agreed).  Also I was in a lazy mood and didn’t go through and check that I had every­thing for the boys work this week or get much house­work done.  I shot myself in the foot there because my mood is often related to how clean and tidy the house is (nags at the back of my mind and makes me feel guilty and cross if it’s a mess).  So wasn’t feel­ing refreshed on Monday.

We had dif­fi­culty stay­ing focused, I got dis­tracted by (my) work — I usu­ally try and do an hour before we sit down in the morn­ing but had a big job I wanted to tick off, they were dis­tracted by Lego (now Jack has finally fin­ished build­ing his Christ­mas presents) and we were slow to start in the morn­ings, which imme­di­ately put us out.  Elderly neigh­bour wasn’t well and although I obvi­ously don’t begrudge it at all we found our­selves run­ning errands I hadn’t expected.

Didn’t have a map we needed so post­poned Geog­ra­phy as I thought it was worth buy­ing a local Ordi­nance Sur­vey map, hadn’t printed Sam’s Eng­lish so we were work­ing from work­books, I’d ordered a Chem­istry set for Jack so we could do some exper­i­ments but of course it didn’t have all the things we needed in there…

So les­son learned. Goal for next week is to have every­thing ready on Sun­day night!  And do the iron­ing and hoover­ing at the weekend!!!

This is some of what we did.

Made lots of drag­ons.  Can’t be both­ered putting up all the pho­tos but they are here with instructions.

And lots of pan­das.  This is Jack’s gor­geous bag.  They will be up on Activ­ity Vil­lage soon.

Look­ing at blood flow by hold­ing a hand in the air for 2 mins and then com­par­ing the colour with the other (should be white — drains of blood).

And showed how a heart valve only allows the blood to flow one way.

Learn­ing about the ori­gins of place names and find­ing examples.

Swim­ming.  Con­den­sa­tion, sorry, as soon as I wiped the lens it steamed back up - hydrother­apy pool and gets rather warm.  Dif­fi­cult to see but Sam has one of these and they are brilliant.

Jack made a cake on his own (I was banned from kitchen).  Wasn’t an over­whelm­ing suc­cess but was edi­ble and I love that he will try.

And I proved I’m worth the money I’m paid by not only mak­ing, but eat­ing (can’t stand waste), green eggs and ham.

And yes it wasn’t nice!

Apart from that the boys have been work­ing their way through the ‘Walk­ing with Monsters/Beasts/Dinosaurs’ dvds again.  They were so scratched Santa put new ones in Sam’s stock­ing hav­ing been a bit over watched.