Hello! Welcome to my blog. I'm an erratic blogger - sometimes I write loads and sometimes I disappear for days on end. I write about anything that comes to mind - sometimes about life, sometimes about marriage, sometimes about homeschool. I'm recovering from bad experiences in the past and trying to find peace with myself and, although I spend little time on the computer these days, this blog will serve as a journal for my thoughts. I have no comments because I need no-one's opinion on my life - mine is the only opinion that counts.

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I'm married to Tim (beautiful musician and delivery driver), we have 2 daughters whom we home educate, live on the south coast of the UK and have 2 aging cats (Mo-mo and Hemmingway). I love reading, crafts, teaching my children and finding the beautiful in things. I have a love of Japanese culture, homes and decor. I have recently rediscovered life away from the computer and am starting to rediscover ..... me.

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Here's a rarity!

Not so much the temperatures (although they are lovely!) - more the fact that for the first time in I don't know how many weeks (months!) there is NO rain forecast!! Our local weather for the next few days looks very warm and toasty :)

Well, today I went to the opticians - not a huge change in my eyesight so I'm putting the headaches down to stress or whatever. I feel fine in myself so, given the opticians report, I don't think there's much wrong. I did order a new pair of glasses though, just for the sake of it, *smiles* slightly more modern ones than I've got now and (amazingly!) quite cool and sexy ;)

Also, today, we went (finally!) and paid the registration fees for April's nursery place. I still have massive misgivings about this whole thing and I know, mostly, that she's going purely for selfish reasons on my part (ie I need some time alone!). I'm pretty sure that she will be ok there but it's still an "educational institution" and, to be honest, I'm not overly fond of them. Anyway, I'm going to break the whole thing down into chunks. First, we'll get to half term and, if she's still ok, then we'll leave her there until the summer holiday. At that point we'll make the "big" decision as to whether to send her back in the autumn or not. Obviously, if she gets there and is monumentally unhappy then she'll be out straight away!

I'm trying to look at this from a positive viewpoint:

1. I'll get time alone - once a week (did I mention that?!)
2. Assuming that we may well home ed her, it will give me time to plan stuff for the start of her compulsory education (she's due to start reception September 2009 - gulp!)
3. It will give me some much needed time alone with just Rosie so that we can work on some stuff she needs help with.
4. If we don't home ed her, it will give her (and me!) time to adjust to the new routine.

Right, I'm off now. It's been a busy day and we're winding down for the kids bedtimes and then Tim and I can relax with dinner.