Oops, sorry I forgot... · Monday July 9, 2007 by june
...to update.
We are definitely in Unschooling mode, much more than usual – even for summer.
James has been pottering around doing art kits, playing music, playing a CSI game on the computer, reading his book, sorting through his stuff… although I’ve managed to pin him down about once a day to do Toe-by-Toe (soooo near the end now) and some Physics. His friends are all finished with their GCSEs now, so he has also spent time with them.
I’ve given up on trying to get Liz to focus, and we have been having fun doing lots of baking. She has been writing emails, playing music, reading, playing Castle Wars on the PC, and Zelda on the GameCube… There will only be Liz and me in September, so I’m not too bothered about being really relaxed about Home Ed right now.
We went up town on Thursday to buy fruit and veg – and got soaked. Other than that I have been busy with decluttering the house, and tidying and cleaning (we had guests over this weekend). The house looks really nice this morning, but I know it won’t stay that way. There are still lots of boxes and bin bags full of stuff to sort through, and most of it is on it’s way out of the house. Why do we accumulate so much stuff???
Oh… and the children’s hard disk has died, so I need to do my best to retrieve the data. That’s my job for today. We should be going to the Home Ed group but Liz and I are suffering from a summer cold and I think we will give it a miss. Specially since I will be running the kids around to their music lessons in the evening. There’s also the washing up to do. We had eight people for dinner yesterday and I only noticed this morning that no one did the washing up.
So I’m thinking that Liz and I might make some (cornish type) pasties this morning (out of yesterdays leftovers) and take them down the beach for a picnic lunch. If the weather stays this nice. Other than that I know James has a wicker basket kit waiting here – big enough for both of them to make something.
