just another morning here

And no returns!
So, September has come around all too quickly. I’m putting my fingers in my ears about all the ‘not-back-to-school’ picnics that many of my friends are organising/attending – a brilliant idea for promoting home education, I just wish I could go to them as well! We’ve had a summer of re-visiting a few of the activities we used to do lots of while home edding, and it has made me yearn for that lifestyle over again – but the children are happy in school and all want to stay there! We’ve had some serious discussions about their educational options over the summer and although they see some disadvantages of schooling (as do we), for them the things they enjoy about school outweigh the down sides. Plus, I am looking forward to starting my slightly different job, which will be a bit of a challenge, and I love the kids at my school too.

Not being able to go to any ‘not-back-to-school’ picnics, and having a new job which might entail writing things down occasionally were obviously the only excuses I needed to join in with the kids’ annual stationery acquisition today – I bought myself a diary, little pencil case, and a 3 pack of these pens in different colours and am happily writing all sorts of things. Sad but true, I think my favourite part of school was writing in different colours, and having all sorts of different colour inks for underlining/highlighting. Don’t think I paid much attention to the content, but the presentation was always pretty (a bit like this blog really!)!

The children packed their lunch up and took it off to the park to eat it today, leaving Steve and I to have lunch together so that was a nice interlude in the day After that I sat and played Animal Crossing – well it is the last day of my holidays! Joe went to TKD and they all revisited Luigi’s Mansion on GC, then did some music practice. We’re all back to school over the next few days – me tomorrow, Anna on Thursday, and the other two on Monday. Ho hum.

And of course, the beginning of term is damned expensive as all lessons need paying for, argh! Cello teacher also said to me “you know, someone at Anna’s level shouldn’t really be playing on a cheapy student cello”, yet Anna is still a midget. So we are planning to shop around for a 7/8 cello – not your average ‘off the peg’ size, so likely to be even more expensive than average. Oh well!

p.s. ha, just noticed that I have used this post title before!

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