This is something of a milestone - I'm blogging from the sofa using the laptop on a wireless connection! Hooray! I still have all my e-mail settings etc on the desktop comp so am not in the habit of using this machine much but it's rather fun.
Anyway, I've just depressed myself by reading some Patch of Puddles archive - going back 3 years to see what they were doing when Fran was 5. Ooo-er! I am SO behind!
Our Tuesday went reasonably well - not quite as much done as Monday, but we did some more Bible, some more Hero Tales and some more Boxcar children. Can't remember what else filled the day but never mind. Wednesday I was out at work all day and DH was home with the girls. He looked at the Sonlight Instructors Guide and couldn't make head or tail of it, so didn't do any. Today I've been at work this morning with Shannon at the childminder and Jade at my friend Kate's, as my Dad has hurt his back and couldn't manage childcare. Actually he's been coming over once a week for over 8 years, since I was pregnant with Benjamin, and now he's approaching 75 he wants to stop. Which leaves me with a dilemma about what to do with Jade on a Thursday morning. We can't currently afford for her to go to the childminder as well. So that's weighing on my mind.
I've had a nice selection of packages in the post today. I got a selection of organic skincare products as a free gift with my Christmas present subscription to Green Parent magazine; a Little Hearts Matter teddy bear as a gift from them to celebrate their 10th anniversary, and an Usborne Books order which I only placed 2 days ago so that's impressive.
Since Jade came home from this afternoon's school, we haven't done much at all as I am again chronically tired from more terrible nights' sleep thanks to Shannon. Am pondering the possibility of getting some help in the daytime for a couple of weeks so that I can nap, and maybe if I know that I'll be able to catch up in the day I'll be able to stick to my guns in the middle of the night and refuse to feed Shannon, no matter how long she stays awake complaining about it.
And now I must go and do something useful.
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Without planning to, it seems I am going against the mainstream in many areas of my life. Home-birth, cloth nappies, attachment parenting, long-term breastfeeding, formerly home-educating and Christian! So here's the blog of me, DH Bill, DD Jade (June '01) and DD Shannon (Nov '04).
About Me
Blogs I read
- Grit's Day
- Happy At Home
- Home Educating the Puddle Girls
- Just another morning here
- Life is a Highway
- Making It Up
- Moving at the speed of life
- Mud & Mischief
- One word? When seven would do...
- Petits Haricots
- Seeing with new eyes
- Stepping off the path
- T-Bird Anni Rides Again
- The Portico
- To the Manor Born
- Where the Days Go
4 comments:
Wayhey! to blogging from the sofa! good isn't it!
and NEVER look at Merry's blog to compare anyone with.... I'm not entirely sure Fran was what you would call a "typical" 5 year old!!!! At least if she is then you and me both can console ourselves that we are behind together ;-)
Anni
Ahem. That would be the little 5 year old who didn't read till 7 1/2 then *rolls eyes at the pair of you!*
Little hearts site made e cry; that little girl Jodie is just the age Fran was for her first surgery :(
Have to say that whilst I like our wireless network for the laptop and for browsing etc. , I do tends to prefer to type much on the desktop. Or at least sitting at a table.
Couldn't be having an email setup where it just lived on one machine though. Ours is networked setup so we can all access our email from any puter.
Are you trying to deal with little 'un in the night or is DH. It only worked for BB when I took her away and put up with the wailing as much as I could. I guess in the end it didn't last long that period, but it felt like it.
She is often waking still in the earlyish morning, but she now toddles through climbs into our bed and has a bottle and then goes back to sleep mostly
But Merry, it's not so much about what F was doing as about what YOU were doing with her! At least twice as much as I do with Jade!
Chris - DH was dealing with her, and he's very good at doing so when he's awake, but in the night she can be in bed with him and me in the next room and she wakes up, cries, wails 'cos I'm not there and gets out of bed to come and find me and he sleeps through the whole lot! I of course wake at the first whimper!
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