And there goes another week! We’ve had Robyn with us again this week after a long break for Christmas so that’s been nice – it is really interesting to watch the dynamics between Josiah, Robyn and I at different points in our time together!
The sun shone for about an hour on Wednesday so we took the opportunity of a break in an otherwise wet and windy week, and popped up to
Haldon Forest Park. Did the play trail there, which was a nice walk – must go on a day that Robyn is with us as well next time.
This is Joe and Anna playing together one morning last week, they did pretty well at listening to one another and keeping together and both enjoyed it, which is the most important thing
Joe, Robyn and I spent some time at Crealy on Thursday, and some time with friends on Friday, as well as all the other usual stuff that goes on around here. Haven’t got around to reading our library books this week so we must make some more time for reading next week. Anna’s enjoying reading this trilogy though, and has spent a fair bit of time in bed with her book!
I’ve cooked lots of soup from my New Covent Garden recipe books this week, and we’ve done some baking too – breaking my new year’s resolutions there but I was desperate for a chocolate hit, so I had to make cake! The next day I made sure that Abbie took what was left to share at her Wind Group, so that I couldn’t eat it 
The weekend has been quiet really – we have spent lots of time in the car together one way or another so there has been a fair bit of talking (and singing, and reciting Psalty lyrics, much to Steve’s disgust ) together which I’ve appreciated. Sometimes we can get through a week and realise that we’ve hardly seen each other (the whole family, I mean), so it’s been nice to have some family time. We ended up all going to Sainsbury’s together (oh yes, we know how to live the high life!) and watching films/Saturday night tv together too, which just felt cosy and comfortable, just how I like Saturday nights to be
Today we spent the day with Steve’s parents which was great, we haven’t been there for ages as they’ve been having building work done, which is finally nearly finished! Emma and I popped down to Torquay for a bit of a giggle at the FXFactor (and yes, I told them about the grammatical error on the front page of that site but they didn’t really want to know ) auditions that Em decided to go for – she got through! It was almost exciting
Back at Steve’s parents’ house we just sat/danced around doing various things together, oh, some people went out for a walk too … and then Marg cooked a roast dinner which was lovely as usual. Incidentally, if anyone’s interested, that particular copy of Reader’s Digest is worth reading just for the lovely picture/fabulous article about a home educating family we know! Now back home and doing the usual Sunday-night-get-ready-for-Monday thing …
) big room tidy. One day they will learn that if they pick things up every day then they won’t have to do mega-tidies at weekends. Then again I sometimes prefer the ‘do nothing for ages then give it a blast’ approach too, so I shouldn’t complain too much I suppose. Meanwhile Joe and Steve worked on this meccano type metal kit, which kept them occupied for a while.
