Posted in Special Day on December 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
It’s here! The children have been asleep for hours and went without wanting stories and much earlier than normal (Charli even tidied her room!). They have been incredibly excited and there is so much magic in the air.
We have (I have) spent most of the day making a ginger-bread house…
The girls started off [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on February 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Do you remember those simple days? Tying your shoe laces for the first time felt like such a huge accomplishment. Charli brought home her first ever ‘homework’ book last week. She had a week to complete various tasks and one of them was to learn and practice tying shoe laces! Beautiful!
She’s [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sarah, Sophie on October 16th, 2008 9 Comments »
We’re into the sunshine term of hat wearing and late evenings. Early bedtimes for the girls are harder to achieve with sunlight streaming through the curtains. The garden is such a wonderful temptation and hard for them to resist. I’m having to work extra hard to ensure a proper ‘wind down’ at [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on July 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
The week before term-break didn’t really feel like Charli’s first week at school. It felt more like a ‘taster’ before a two-week break of reflection and wondering about the future. I had so many vivid dreams of my childhood and schooling, as well as a few strange ones of being within Charli’s body [...]
Posted in Sarah on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
In my first year of motherhood my bedside table was stacked high with a wide selection of parenting books. The subjects of most interest at that time were sleep, health, breastfeeding and developmental milestones. My reading of parenting and child psychology books became a little obsessive. There was a time when the [...]
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