Friday 29 October 2010

Time

Time seems to be running off into winter without me. I am finding the days, hours and minutes are slipping out of my hands without me ever having achieved the things I wanted. We have Halloween in two days, with a party invite and at least 5 costumes to sort. A birthday in four days with no sign of a party sorted, friends invited or presents wrapped with two more family birthdays to follow in November. All this will fly past and I shall find myself faced with December and another birthday and Christmas looming large.


I have all good intentions!

Wool and fabric have been purchased, patterns researched ready to make all sorts of lovely gifts. Ideas for home Ed have been discussed and half planned, resources picked out. But still I find us running out of time nothing ever really accomplished. Or maybe it has. We have all been reading, sharing stories and ideas. We have welcomed in the sky plus box I had long fought against only to find we are able to pick and choose far more selectively what we and the children watch instead of sitting sifting through rubbish and wasting the time watching it! Music is being practised diligently and daily, and while not all of it is really soothing it is wonderful to hear.

Maybe the only time really lost is the time I spend worrying. All the rest will turn out in some way or another as time well spent.

Friday 22 October 2010

Creative Kids!


Our kids always seem to be being creative.

With language, music, craft and even sometimes the truth!
All the pictures show them making and sharing and a wonderful snapshots of those moments.
But mostly they are creativein how they continue to play with each other and their friends. Their heads are full to bursting with all sorts of imaginary friends and characters, voices and songs. As parents we would love them to be put down into words maybe contained within poems. It definitely would be useful for others to see that they have been doing something more structured or definable.

That's just not happening in our house!

Perhaps we should tape cameras to them and put up cctv to track their every move to show that at the moment they are playing games full of greek gods and egyptian myths, Harry Potter and goblins. So much of our childrens lives are structured and curtailed its really wonderful to see ours flying around the garden on broomsticks or picking out a stick every where we go on the hunt for the perfect kobesh.

When the days get you down and you despair that you have not achieved anything of merit I think its good to remember the best achievements are the ones they set for themselves and attain. And that they still have those carefree moments of childhood available everyday. And then let them go outside come sun, rain or snow!

Creative Kids!





Thursday 14 October 2010

Trying........

Trying to get things done,

Trying to inspire,

Trying to create,

Trying to be confident,

Trying to complete,

Our days seem to be an endless round of trying and it can feel like we are never actually succeeding.

But sitting here having been through a very "trying" couple of days, I feel good about it.

Trying is like throwing all sorts of things into the mix all the time but with the knowledge that doing so enables everyone to find something that works for them.

I hope that means we are succeeding in finding the core of how home educating will work for us!

And anyway we'll keep on trying!