… otherwise entitled ‘your wish is my command’, if you ask for Wall-E in hama beads you will have it!
Adapted for hama beads from this cross stitch pattern.
They did have shadows underneath them, too, but I kind of cocked that part up during ironing, so this is as good as it gets.
An achievement, in a week that felt as though we might not all arrive at Saturday in one piece! Anyway. Not a lot to report round here this week, home ed or otherwise.
Josiah has been hard work to live with! He’s done the usual music practice, some maths work from workbooks, started a science kit, played on Carmen Sandiego Maths Detective, and that’s about it. We went to HE Group on Wednesday and he raced around the park with some other boys, I think he and I both appreciated that a lot. And he’s had piano, violin, and swimming lessons as usual. In fact his teacher commented that he’s doing really well in swimming at the moment so that’s positive (clutching at positive straws here!). But generally it seems to be a huge struggle to have him at home on his own, especially compared to what a day is like with the girls around as well. Not quite sure if there are any easy answers to this particular dilemma, might just have to ride out the storm, as it were.
Abbie and Anna have both had a good week at school; Anna’s going to be a school librarian so she’s happy about that. Abbie’s doing swimming lessons in school as well this term, so she’s enjoying that. They’ve both been working hard at music stuff as usual too.
Personally it’s been a rough week, for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on and probably wouldn’t want to blog even if I could! But, just for the record, I don’t think it was anything to do with either Steve shaving his beard off (although he thinks it was, so he’s grown it back already!), or deleting the Animal Crossing town that I’ve spent goodness knows how many hours on over the past year 
Anyway, the end of the week has been much better 
The children and I have made Hama European Flag badges for all the countries in the Eurovision Song Contest; we’re having friends round so we’re going to concoct some sort of badge-earning game to play throughout the evening as we score the songs, just for a laugh. Probably the sort of game that really should have alcohol involved as well!
This morning we’ve all mucked in and done lots of housework, then rewarded ourselves with chocolate I just have a small pile of sorting out to do, and the hamster to clean out, and we’ll be finished (well, until Monday at least). Happiness is, after all, a clean house, a Grand Prix weekend, your sisters being at home, a birthday party to go to, and pocket money
Joe and I spent 3 hours this afternoon making this ship … only for him to then ask where his hama pirate was (don’t know how many months ago he made it but it went into the recycling bin ages ago 
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It actually looks quite impressive from a distance …
Abbie’s latest hama bead effort, made because it wouldn’t use too much white (which we knew we were running low on), and then we ran out of flesh pink!