Managed to just about squeeze in my current favourite TV crime drama last night. A BBC4 offering called The Bridge. Scandinavian with subtitles. Perfect. S, 7, fell asleep on my lap as I was stroking her hair just about 2 minutes before the title credits and great soundtrack rolled and O, 3, was kind enough to sleep until 10 minutes before the end. Thanks to the wonders of modern breastfeeding I was able to catch the last serving though, until next week! In fact I might watch this week's again!
Today's title track is the soundtrack.
Early start this morning first stop gym. O was very cool about my going and staying with his Daddy after some separation anxiety last week. Today I finished the second stage of my program. The first six weeks is termed "Foundation" at Slinfold and the second "Development" and so now, after 12 weeks, I am ready to move on to the third Maintenance phase. As I will be leaving the gym at the end of the month I hope to pick up some ideas for things I can do at home and integrate into daily life.
Straight from the gym I headed over to Southwater, near Horsham, for the quarterly board meeting of the company I volunteer to be on the board of directors of which is the business arm of the breastfeeding charity La Leche League. We had a productive, positive couple of hours before I headed off again! This time to rendezvous with TDO and the trio who were at Fishers Farm Park for lunch.
Together we all took Middle Small AKA E, 5, to meet with his Grandma and Grandie at Secretts Farm Shop near Milford, where he headed back to their house and has gone for a two night sleepover. We will see him again on Tuesday morning. He was very excited. When S went to see Horrible Histories some weeks back and have a sleepover he missed out and is keen to play mario kart on the Wii with Grandie. Always a different atmosphere when one of our number is missing but interesting to have a different vibe.
Part of me thinks I ought to be writing some more philosophical, grander, thought provoking challenging blog posts or maybe split out a diary of the trio's progress that I need and use for my own planning purposes from the journal of home education more generally. The thing is when I first started blogging I had lots to say and share now it bothers me less whether we are defined as home schoolers or unschoolers or autonomous or attachment parents because we have worked out what works for our family at the moment and are really just getting on with doing it! Enjoying each day.
Unbelievably it has rained again all day today. Grey, cold and miserable weather. Not a favorable gallivanter's climate.
Together we all took Middle Small AKA E, 5, to meet with his Grandma and Grandie at Secretts Farm Shop near Milford, where he headed back to their house and has gone for a two night sleepover. We will see him again on Tuesday morning. He was very excited. When S went to see Horrible Histories some weeks back and have a sleepover he missed out and is keen to play mario kart on the Wii with Grandie. Always a different atmosphere when one of our number is missing but interesting to have a different vibe.
Unbelievably it has rained again all day today. Grey, cold and miserable weather. Not a favorable gallivanter's climate.
1 comment:
You so don't need to box yourself in (in my opinion) they're just words, labels after all... if it works for you, that's all that matters. I mean, how do we keep learning and growing as parents if we construct limits for ourselves that we wouldn't put on our children?
As for 'challenging' people - I don't know about you but I think my greatest challenge is in living an out=-of-the-ordinary life. Seems to me just your being 'outside the box' is challenge enough!
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