Katy’s rambles about life

please can I do it more often!!!

This morning she cleaned her table off as soon as she had finished breakfast and we sat and Hama-ed for quite some time. In fact she finished a whole flower in 1 sitting which she has never done before.

Then she danced her way through Boogie Beebies (irritating programme but it gets her moving!!) before switching off and doing 3 full pages of Miquon (number lines… as seen on Schools TV the other week so now fully understood…. ) and getting a third of the way through teh 100 square which is the next page on. She wrote most of the answers herself too which is something she’s refused in the past. Then she did 3 dot-to-dots (that’s sequencing numbers to 20 then…) “helped” by one of her dolls!

After that it was stories and discussing ideas raised by stories and a spontaneous demand to look in the Encycleopedia at something. And then some more stories…..

Heading towards bedtime she grabbed all her reading books, dumped them on my lap and started working through them. All 10 of them. These are ones she is sort of familiar with and are pretty easy going but she was genuinely reading (as in pointing to the words and not muddling up minor details like “a” instead of “the” which she normally does if she’s reciting) and got all excited about the idea of reading.

Bit more Cebeebies then up to bed for bedtime stories…. she insisted on a First hundred words type book and promptly did a pretty good job on half of that too before having anything read to her.

So, thank you Jan and your wonderful daughters! You inspired her to great things, pass the coffee will you… I’m worn out!!!

So… do I edge it in plain red or leave it alone? Still can’t decide! It curls in at the sides which I think edging it would cure but then who care? it’s lovely for keeping my shoulders warm on chilly mornings (yikes, I’m sliding down that slippery slope to Muffin-dom again…)

rEplying to your comment from a few days ago….

I’ve done co-ops before for various things and had mixed success. If you are going to try to wait until there are enough people to get a full “lot” of one thing invariably someone will drop out at the last minute leaving you either keeping everyone else waiting even longer (at which point at least 1 more person will stomp off in a huff) or picking up the slack yourself. I ran several co-ops to get my stock levels up when I first started (it got round the minimum order being too high for my initial budget!) so picking up the slack wasn’t a trauma although i still have half a pack of Recovery Remedy on the shelf…. but if you aren’t planning on running an on-line yarn shop any time soon it could get to be a right pain in the bum.

However, if you are planning on running a co-op for nice bright colours of chunky yarn suitable for small children learning to knit I’m in!