All that glitters

The past three weeks have seen some new challenges come into my life - they're not really for sharing on this blog, but let's just say that events and surrounding emotions could easily have been from an EastEnders episode.

A couple of the things I have learnt from these experiences however, are firstly, facebook, blogs, twitter and such only allow people to see a tiny part of what is really happening in our lives - and only the bits we want them to see, and secondly, it really is the little things that matter: laughter, sharing, wine, good coffee, cuddles, saying sorry and most importantly - time with friends and family.

The past 18 months has been a real journey for my family and it's not always been easy.  Homeed is the road that we are currently on, and I am having to learn (and un-learn) so much; using the blog helps me to see not only what we have done, but to formally process (lots of) the thoughts in my mind.  When you choose to step outside of 'mainstream' choices, it can be a lonely and scary place; I still have the same concerns as parents with children in main stream education (will they be ok? am I doing the right thing? am I a good parent?), but I am certainly not questioning the choices of others - I am too busy worrying about my own choices for that!  This blog gives you a snippet into my daily life; I don't tell you every-time I cry (well sometimes) or when my wobbles have me googling local schools, or when I actually miss the school run.  I tell you what's going well, what we are up to, how we have reflected on things, or changed things, or learnt something amazing together.  Those are the bits I want to share as that is what keeps me going: even on the really bad days, sending them back to school is not necessarily the answer (we've tried that one).

This time last year, I was not in a good place with homeed and I have realised that whilst we have had some tough times of late, actually we (I) am in a much better place; we still explore the option of school, and we still change regularly how we work our weeks.  Homeed is not perfect - but then again, neither is school.

So in-between the tears, angst and working things out, today we officially 'started' our Christmas holidays with a trip to see Peter Pan on Ice followed by hot chocolates and cake.  We have also started on those Christmas Crafts............

Snowmen Nails!

Glittering snow flakes

Tree hearts

A festive robin

 angela x

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions” 

Leonardo da Vinci