Christmas Shopping · Thursday December 7, 2006 by Abbie
I think Ram is needing some time out again after Wednesday’s outing to the home ed group. He just wanted to go into what he calls default mode; watching old videos!
But it did give me a chance to get onto the computer on my own. I guess one of the few drawbacks of home education is that you don’t get much of a chance to do the Christmas shopping on your own!
This year I have tried to do as much as possible on the Internet. When Ram was little I didn’t worry too much doing it while he was around, but now he is so good at reading I can’t any more!
He did point out something in a catalogue that he wanted. I asked him if he would like me to read the description to him so as to make sure he knew what it was. ‘No thanks Mum, I have done that already!’
It is at moments like this that I realise how far he has come!
We had really high winds here again today, and the power kept going on and off. We ended up lighting all the wall candles once it was dark. I went though the safety talk again. I have found that he does need to have things told to him over and over just to make sure. But this year he seems to have got it. When the winds died down, and I was in the other room, he went and safely blew all the candles out for me without me having to ask him! I was also able to teach him to safely light a match this evening.
When we got into bed we did our spelling first. I am always amazed at how good he is, especially as he doesn’t get to see the word first.
And it was a good thing that we did the spellings first as not long after we started reading the book the power went off again!
At least I got one thing done today though. I managed to order some little goodies for our stockings without Ram noticing. Lets just hope the postman can deliver them without Ram noticing too!
