Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

I’ve been meaning to blog for ages and tend to in my head but at the end of the day it just seems so much to remember and write up and I put it off for another day. Jan reminded me yesterday that she was enjoying my little blogs and so I’m going to put more effort in.

So a quick summary of what we’ve been up to:

* Magna - we renewed our yearly pass there as there was a special offer on in February.
* Lovely visit with Merry so we could be in the vecinity for -
* SB’s birthday party at a soft play centre. Fab time had by all.
* A had badgers which she’s still really enjoying
* Home ed group at the Nature reserve where we were looking at soil and then Babs and I took the kids away to do a geocache.
* Another home ed meet up at a soft play, I think as a group there were 80 home ed kids there which I think is quite impressive!
* Club Penguin is what both kids are currently obsessed with. Not sure if I can find any educational benefit to it though but they are enjoying it a lot!

Yesterday we headed north (I resisted the temptation to just keep driving till I got to Scotland, if James were with me we may have just run away there!!) to Jax’s for Small’s belated 5th birthday party. We had lots of fun and was lovely to meet Jax’s bil and kids as well as catch up with Jan and Jonathan although was slightly perturbed by Jan’s M being as tall as my M and she’s 2 weeks younger than A. I should be used to it by now I guess

Educashunally M has been reading the first Beast Quest book, I think he enjoyed it, but he’s not sure if he’ll read the second one. He really just doesn’t get that interested in story books. A has been reading a book on dolphins in her own way, in other words she can read the long words in it but is struggling still with words such as ‘on’ and ‘the’.

Both children have been really enjoying the Usborne Sticker Maths that Alison gave away at Melrose. So much so that I bought M his own copy and since that one wasn’t quite the same and some of the original book had been used A then wanted her own copy. I don’t mind though, this has been the only time they’ve both been really happy about the maths, I’ve even been woken up with them coming into bed with their maths books. This is good. I also really like that M is reading what to do and just doing it all himself really, I mean it isn’t particularly stretching but as a confidence builder it’s working really well.

A had a poster she needed to make for Badgers, it was about Ireland, I think for the global badge or something so she made that and did more writing than she has ever done in her life!! Mostly without complaint it has to be said. M did his own poster too without writing as he didn’t need to

I think that kind of brings me back up to date, I’ll try and blog better next week.