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Free time! thirsty and making monday 3
1) I’m still surprised, whenever I walk past, to discover that the washing machine is doing what it’s supposed to do. By that I mean actually washing clothes. After six months of running repairs and...
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Catching up, asleep, and making monday 4
1) To stand in the sunshine and share the news from the weekend. 2) As I say goodnight to the kids, I remind them that it is sleep time and they should ignore each other and go to sleep. To my great...
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Making monday 5, something yummy, and asleep
1) For the last ten days I have been carefully nurturing Herman, even taking him away with us for the weekend, so that I could look after him properly… Today, I ensured the future of the species and...
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The birthday girl, a glass of bubbly, and cake (Making Monday 6)
1) Happy sixth Birthday to my precious Megan… 2) K and I enjoy our traditional glass of bubbly (well, I did do most of the hard work six years ago!) and reminisce about what happened six years ago...
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Unexpected, happy boy, and Making Monday 7.
1) An unexpected text results in a very nice morning coffee with a friend. All the kids were at school, so we had time to chat . 2) A arrives home from school, happy, full of news, and justifiably...
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Not as much, much more, and all together.
1) The car went in for its annual MOT and service today – it was a relatively inexpensive day . 2) I heard, unofficially, the approximate profit from the school Christmas Fayre… . 3) We had our choir...
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New term, clever girl, moon, and Making Monday 9.
1) We walk to school on the first day of the new term, in the sunshine. The kids are both glad to be going back . 2) M comes home from gymnastics and demonstrates a cartwheel, a handstand, a bridge, a...
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Proud mummy, experimenting and still there.
1) Today I came across this post from three years ago, wherein Aidan is awarded a “Superstar” for writing a story. On the main school noticeboard today was a copy of the story A wrote last week – he’s...
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1) Yesterday I made twice a baker’s dozen worth of soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies. They were gone within a matter of minutes. Eaten (for the most part) by a horde of hungry teenagers… we did...
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Two of us, rising moon, and together.
1) A and I went to the library, then to Hobbycraft this afternoon. It was lovely having some “just the two of us” time. And nice that he’s still at the age to be happy to chat about his day and what...
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