There is no hurry…

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."A A Milne Sometimes it seems like school drags on forever. At others, it feels like there just isn't enough time to get everything done. It is so easy to get caught up in the things that I didn't do, or couldn't do or…

The fortnight slump

So, it has been a while, and I keep meaning to write. In fact, I have 2 blog posts saved as drafts. But I never get around to finishing them. Mostly because I'm lazy, and partly because I keep getting distracted. But coming back to the blog is useful. I've been feeling pretty bad about…

Sometimes easier isn’t actually

(I wrote this a week ago, and failed to post- apologies for the double bill.) My kids don't beat the living daylights out of each other, they don't just pay attention a lot of the time. Or if they do pay attention, they don't do what I ask. And because they are quite well behaved,…

stupid rant 1

"Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her child. "Wake up! It’s time to go to school!" "But why, Mom? I don’t want to go." "Give me two reasons why you don’t want to go." "Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!" "Oh, that’s no reason…