Category: A Year in the Life

Just a quickie post today, to avoid repetition of yesterday's post 🙂 The littles are feeling much better and have done all their school work this morning. I had decided that I would do half days today and tomorrow, as Lil was getting a bit agitated at the thought of getting behind. The younger two…

Three definites, one possible and two okay-for-now. This is the current status on the chest infection making its rounds through our family. I feel very blessed to have got it first, and to have been so well looked after that I am ready to return the favour and then some! Poor ol' Gary is struggling…

It's so good to be up and about again! Lillie was working a full day today and so I needed to give her a lift. It was Baltic! Actually it wasn't but after four days in bed it sure felt like it. After Lil was dropped off we got on with chores: whilst listening to…

I got up this morning determined to homeschool. I am after all a homeschooling mum, and therefore should be doing just that. I started well. Having been in bed for four days solid and with too high a temperature to wash, a bath was a necessity, if I didn't want my body walking away without…

Today I woke up before the alarm went off, no, actually, before the alarm should have gone off had I set it. Hmmm. I'm thinking there might be something in this. Maybe if I never set an alarm I'll wake up early every morning... I probably should mention that reason I woke up so early…

Part of my reason for writing A Year in the Life of a Homeschooling Family  is to document the struggles of homeschooling with a child who is chronically unwell. I think it will be useful for me to have a record of what works and what doesn't. A vast majority of thought time today was…

It felt like a singularly unproductive day today! The littles, having got out of bed early every day last week, lay in until 730 this morning. It must have been first week back enthusiasm, which has waned somewhat this week! There was also lots of chores to do from the weekend, which the older girls…

I woke in a really bad mood today. It's rare but when it happens it's not a pretty sight. I had been up until one sewing some Minoan doll costumes for the girls to dye today, so I was tired and stiff. I made a coffee and went back to bed for five minutes to…

Brr, it was Baltic today! So much so that we all wanted to spend the day in our warm beds. The thought did flicker through my mind, but after mentally visualising the reality of painting pottery and making a mummy whilst still languishing in bed, I decided getting up seemed the more sensible option. This…

Having been awake for most of the night with a nasty migraine I was very grateful that Gary had a day off today. He works six days on and two days off, which is wonderful because he does actually get days off now, unlike at his last work where he seemed to work seven days…

Y'know that shampoo ad which says repeat and rinse? Well, that pretty much describes my early morning fumblings. My phone read '3 missed alarms'. Really, I need say no more. Yesterday I did at least know that I missed them. I mean, I actually heard them. Today, not so much. Thankfully, Abs and Becs were…