Tuesday
With Lily at home and the atmosphere quite stressed, we attempted to carry on as 'normal'; of course normal in the Horler house-hold can be elusive. Just heading out the door to meet a previous client in Ham, and I notice the cat has been sick. Except it's not sick. It's half of a Cookie; Cookie being the family HAMSTER!! OMG, how horrid. Lily of course is the owner of little cookie so that did not help the whole 'stressed out at home' situation. I decided to cancel the coffee, clean up the Cookie mess and instead we headed to the local library and spent time reading, choosing books and just taking stock.
The library turned out to be a great learning opportunity as being Shrove Tuesday, Noah had lots of questions about lent and pancakes and easter, so we sat and looked at lots of books and learnt all about that. Once home, I read with the children. Noah and I are reading Journey to the River Sea which we are really enjoying, and Lily and I are reading War Horse as we would like to see it at the Theatre.
After lunch, we started to look at the Solar System and Noah and Lily started to assemble a model, whist we looked up facts and information from the books we had loaned from the library.
Wednesday
We had a really difficult start to the day; lily was sent back to school and she cried, screamed, and sent abusive BBM's to me. Lovely. However, tough love seemed to work because she came home from school with a smile on her face! There are a few things still to iron out, and it may still be that another school may suit her better, or she comes home. For now we are trying to be supportive and listening.
Noah had a play date on Wednesday as I had to do some midwifery work. In the evening he helped me to make dinner and made his first 'Cottage Pie' and was very proud of him-self!
Thursday
Initially I was supposed to teaching a Y7 class, however as Noah was unable to come with me and I did not want to 'off-load' him again, that was cancelled. Instead, we sat and played chess, then we talked about his home learning and decided to come up with a more structured time-table together, accommodating what he most likes to learn and balancing that with my work and what I would like him to learn. We are both please and excited about the time-table that will start next week.
We then did some Art and Crafts and Noah created a giant beef-burger poster (his favourite food). This made us hungry so we shared a picnic on the living room floor and chatted about all sorts of things!
Painting
Time to whizz off then for an antenatal (Noah brought workbooks along) and then before Piano we visited the park to enjoy the early spring sunshine. Life feels sooo much better when the sun is shining!
Practising piano
Today
Our new time-table has Fridays as a chill /geography/ field trip day. Noah made us breakfast (dippy eggs!) and we are currently sat in bed reading, watching TV, and blogging! Later on we are out for lunch.
Making breakfast
I am looking forward to starting next week again; I still have a lot of wobbly days home-edding and Noah is on the waiting list for two local schools. On the days when I feel calm and focused, I feel I can cope with anything - however some days I think arrrgghhhh. Can't do this! What is reassuring is seeing how much Noah has progressed over the last few months; his speech, interest in learning, ability to play creatively, his love of reading are all really noticeable developments. He really enjoys being at home, but is not adverse to school either, so we are just taking it week by week at the moment!
Angela x
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