Making Progress ...

... and a month's worth of catching up!

Dave has spent the last few weeks liaising with the conveyancing teams linked to the sale of our current home and the purchase of the new one.  This has involved numerous emails, humongous form filling and telephone calls.  I am very glad that he has undertaken this job because for sure it would have tipped me over the edge!  Apparently moving house is one of THE most stressful things you can do, with divorce running as an equal.  I think we will both be very glad once we are moved in to our new home and a sense of "normality" is returned.

Despite the moving chaos we have successfully stuck to our home school lessons and have just completed week four in our home school year.  Little Miss PJ might grumble and groan on and off but on the whole we complete most if not all the items on our subject list.  On Wednesday AJ arrives and she stays with us until we drop her back on Friday afternoon.  Her presence here provides a good dose of healthy competition for Pip and so our home school days run a little easier from Wednesday onward.  Since the girls work really hard in the mornings working pretty much non stop with a twenty minute break in between, this means we are in a position to enjoy a trip out in the afternoons or for the girls to work on Lego creations or a Minecraft World.

We have even managed a few celebrations this past month.  On the 20th Pip celebrated her First Confession and First Holy Communion.  It was quite a special day and we enjoyed a treat lunch courtesy of Uncle Bryan; even Fr Philip was able to join in the fun.  Exactly a week later on the 27th, Dave celebrated his birthday.  We enjoyed a blustery picnic lunch on the big day followed by a fish and chip lunch on the following day.

Today I spent the afternoon planning our lessons for last week and have enjoyed a day that has not involved sorting through a few remaining items that we will not be taking with us.  I have lost count of the number of black bin bags that have gone to the charity shop or an almost equal number of those taken for recycling.  We have also listed items on "Freegle" and well over twenty items have been collected from our home, including a canvas wardrobe, an almost new spare bed, didymos slings, car roof bars and all manner of other things!  We are however on the home straight with a potential moving day looming on the horizon, we are waiting on one teensy  piece of paper and then we are good to go :-)

It has been good to pop by and I'm hoping that once things settle down I will be back to a more "normal" blogging schedule :-)

Home School Days

 

 Sunny morning lessons

 Strong as paper science experiment

Strong as paper pyramids

Recreation Times

 

A well deserved hot chocolate treat at the Midland Hotel.  We will miss this place and I'm sure we will still visit but our challenge will be to find an alternative venue nearer our new home.

 Crochet calm, much needed for sure!

Both girls had fun making their own version of Lego Transformers.

A Special Little Visitor

 

 How did this little fella get to be so big?!

He does a pretty good commando crawl :-)

Celebration:  Pip First Holy Communion Meal

 

Celebration:  A Birthday Picnic