Today I have felt…

a bit like one of those monkeys that carries their young around all the time. Little Matilda has a cold and wanted to whine in my ear about it all day long. Can't say i blame her, poor little thing, its tough to have a blocked nose when you dont know how to blow it! 

Oh how i need sleep this evening, im just keeping my eyes open long enough to type this. You know when you are really lacking sleep when you start fantasizing about sleep and the people asleep in the beds of the ikea catalogue make you feel a bit envious…

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anyway got some post from some lovely londoner friends of ours today with a very important non baby present but much needed…

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mind you though, in my view why keep chocolate for emergencies??

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got to love me a bit of spring….

the sunshine and the buds on the trees on the way home from school this morning was lovely. Pure pleasure. The girls are really interested in the trees and plants growing in people's gardens and so we had a nice little chat about spring too. love that. I think i may have said this before but i am a recent convert to the sun. Having very celtic skin and having spent lots of my teenage years trying and failing to get a tan (including a few near misses with over-exposure!) I just about gave up on the 'sun' 

But in the past few years and probably in part due to the horribly dreary weather we have in this country I have found myself yearning for the sun. I love the feel of it on my face, it 's so healing. I am probably never going to be a sun worshipper because of my skin and some things can be just plain dangerous when you are fair skinned but i love that sun kissed glow, it feels so healthy and happy….and warm….

So put me down for a few more pleasant walks in the sun and maybe even a spot on a beach where the sea laps the sand, a towel and a really good book…….
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my brown eyed boy…

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who this week got moved into a more advanced group in his swimming lessons. The teacher had said to me the week before that she felt he was too good for her group and wanted to see if he could cope with being in the next group up. I was a little nervous as to how he would cope too, moving out of a group which has in it one of his best friends. 

When i mentioned it to him he was not happy about it and had clearly been thinking about it all day when i picked him up from school on monday to go to the lesson. I encouraged him to have a go at it and if he didnt like it then we would ask if he could go back down to the other group.

So, he went a little unwillingly and gave it a go. It is quite a leap, he is no longer in the learner pool and so cant put his feet down and i did wonder if it would be too much for him.

But when he got out I said to him 'so how did it go'

'It was superb' he said.

One of those times when pushing him was the right thing to do, its hard to know sometimes, we are told that being a pushy parent is not PC and potentially damaging to your child but in this case he was just that little bit unsure of his capabilities that he needed a little helping hand….

its just a matter of walking the fine line i suppose……

I dont need to tell you that I was proud of him and i told him lots on the way home. 

Was good to know that i had made a good parenting choice too though!!

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introducing….

the Mohawk…

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heh heh..i have a real temptation to put a few star stickers on her forhead and start singing the 'young ones'…love it though, sometimes it sticks straight up and sometimes just kind of curly like a little tube wave on her head…surfs up dude!

She is still a bit of a random sleeper and that is largely why i am so tired but I can also attribute the tiredness to Isaac having a bad dream and getting into our bed the night before last and also the fact that Ben had Ofsted, the school inspection people, on monday and tuesday of this week. I dont like Ofsted, it turns usually calm  people into overactive worriers and their partners bear some of the brunt of it too….aaand it doesnt prove much really…pah!! its the new four (well five) letter word in this house….

I could go on for a long time about how ridiculously under-valued teachers are…it bugs me when people go 'oh well, at least if you are a teacher you get all those holidays!" There is the overtime, planning, marking, pressure from parents, school governers, ofsted reports. It bugs me that teachers seem to be expected to 'parent' kids as well as teach them. I mean im all for good role models in school but the buck stops with the parents ultimately and its way to easy to blame teachers for kids rubbish behaviour and attitude. Don't you think?

Anyway Im going to get off my soap box and put it away because im too tired and i need to get some sleep before any one of the number of people who live in this house wake me up.

Latah x

ps sorry about spelling mistakes…i need some sleep…
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the tiredness….

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heh heh…times that by four and you just about have the measure of it…just about keeping my nose above the water…..back at a reasonable time to share some more thoughts….

if…

I can retain them long enough to crowbar them into my long term memory because my short term memory seems to have gone on vacation….to try and catch up on sleep….

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