Last Day · Monday July 23, 2007 by june
This is my last day of doing the blog. I believe Ann is taking over next. If I have another go at blogging my month sometime I hope that I have more time to put aside just to spend time on posting, it all seems to have been very rushed on my part.
We have now officially finished Home Education for the summer. We don’t really “stop” for the summer, but because Tom goes to school we are all very aware of term and holiday times. We may be in the Summer Holidays now, but Liz still made muffins today (raspberry and white chocolate), she is getting good at baking on her own. She also practised her flute, and updated her blog. I hardly saw James today as he has spent the day with his mates, but we still found time to work on the new tunes he needs to learn before he went out. Tom chilled, it always takes him a few days to settle into school holidays.
Last Saturday, Liz went on her first ever organised coach trip without me. It was very wet but it seems to have been a success, which is good because she goes on her second one this coming Saturday. At least they are planning to be inside this time.
The decluttering has come to a standstill, this is one of my main jobs over the next few weeks. I did throw away quite a few bin bags of rubbish, and bag up about four bags for the charity shop (although unfortunately they haven’t quite made it out of the door yet). There is still an awful lot more to do. Ideally we are looking to move house. I don’t feel like I have a lot of control over this – several different things will need to fall into place to make it happen – so de-cluttering is one thing I can do. To be prepared.
I’m now getting myself ready for a new time in our life. James is going to college – I still have forms to fill in :-( He is really looking forward to it, and it’s great to see life moving forward for him. I’ve been spending time thinking about next year’s Home Education for Liz. She is so different from James. With James we did lots of science (which isn’t really my “thing”) and quite a bit of history, but with Liz she is much more into Art, Music, Languages, and has been very resistant about history up until now (too gory, and people die). She isn’t struggling with Literacy in the same way James has, we just need to work on her spelling some more. So it is all going to be very different, and I’m looking forward to that. I’m hoping we can have some fun.
