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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

More ladybirds, much gardening and some filth

So, today (if you remember from my post a few days ago) was our "quiet" day - the day we didn't have anything much planned. What I should of said is that we didn't have anywhere to go (just for once!) ... we still had a lot of stuff to do though.

Firstly, after the ladybird in the car, Rosie went on a ladybird hunt and found LOADS - it must be ladybird season. She picked a couple of leaves with the pupae attached and put them in her bug observation box to watch them hatch.

Apart from the ladybirds we were BUSY!

Behold, some piccies from today ....

Mo mooched about in the garden

 

We finally got round to emptying the stagnant water and last years slimey sand out of the sandpit (god, it was rank!) and the kids got busy scrubbing it up to get it clean.

 

After it's clean, we refilled it with fresh sand and hey presto! one happy toddler *smiles*

 

Welcome to the jungle ....... Tim hacked his way through the shrubs in our front garden that badly needed tidying (and he doesn't look too happy about it either!)

 

...and what did I do whilst all this was going on? Why! I lay on the sofa, ate chocolates and read a slushy book of course! I WISH!!

I hoovered right through, dusted the living room, did and dried and put away and load of laundry, scrubbed the bathroom from top to bottom, did all the washing up and ran around making cups of tea and feeding everyone. I did also assist with the clearing of the filth from the sandpit because Tim needed helping tipping the rainwater and old sand out of it (he's pretty strong but it weighed a tonne!). I also helped April clean up the toys and dry them so they could go back in the sandpit.

So, it was a busy day alround :) I'm glad I did my cleaning today though because it means that on my free afternoon tomorrow I can just chill which is actually VERY rare! Just me and the sound of silence ... bliss!