Homeschooler

Well as many of you know, I’ve dipped my foot into the homeschooling waters. Liam suffers classic middle-child syndrome and isn’t quite as easygoing as his two brothers. Combine that with being very bright and a very fast learner and we ended up with a child in school refusal.

So – after much discussion (and two days of internal suspension) Liam came up with a plan to attend school part-time to study his core academic subjects, and to stay home part-time. So I’m now a part-time homeschooling parent teaching non-core subjects.

We’re studying Catering & Hospitality and  Business Studies. It’s working out quite well so far. Two weeks down – many more to go!

We’ve started the catering side of things by watching series one of Heston’s Feasts.

Have you seen it?! Fantastic viewing! I love the drink me potion from episode one, the edible candles and cutlery from episode two and the supersized pie from series three! I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the series over the next week or so!

And I am definitely looking forward to the dinner for four Liam will be preparing before 21 August. Which will perhaps be slightly more conventional than Heston Blumenthal’s dinners!

PS…

I promise to try and write more regularly. Really truly!!

What to expect

Hey – you know that book women read when they’re pregnant? What to expect when you’re expecting. Well where does it tell you what to expect when your teenager starts … umm … you know…. doing grown-up things. Good things. Fun things. Things that grown ups do.

You know what I’m talking about right???!!!!

Where does the book tell you what to expect and how to deal with it?!

I mean I’m very happy for everyone involved but to be honest I don’t really know how to respond. What’s the protocol? A high-five for having a great night out (in)? Ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen? Sit down and have a serious discussion about the birds and the bees? Again…

I’ve come to realise I want to know as much about my children’s sex lives, as they want to know about mine. That would be nothing whatsoever! I mean who wants to think about their parents having… you know… sex! And conversely, I don’t want to think about my kids doing it either!

So – while everyone involved is in a nice, happy, respectful relationship – all is good. And I think awkward discussions can just be forgotten about. And every now and then I’ll top up the box of condoms in the bathroom cupboard…

:-)

I’m baaaaaaaaaack!

Nablopomo…

I have failed.

I was doing so well and writing every day! I lasted almost two weeks!

Then a family crisis hit and I missed several days and everything backed up on me and now I can’t seem to get my head above water!

The good news is, I now have shelves in my walk-in wardrobe! I cannot begin to tell you the immense pleasure this gives me. SO MUCH PLEASURE!

And the flow on effect is amazing. Now I can sort all the clothes and all the linen. And all those things that were sitting elsewhere, and can now go in the wardrobe, creates empty spaces in the elsewhere spots for all the other things that were piling on top of each other to go to!!

It is exciting!

But anyway – back to my original point. I failed to write in my blog every day in November but I will make a valiant effort to write every day in December instead.

Does that sound fair and reasonable?!