Today’s plan was also good, and it worked too!
I planned a quiet "schooly" day today and that’s exactly what I ended up with. There were some stern words when she was messing about just to be irritable but that soon passed. I think bribing her with intermittent Harry helped. Trouble is we just started book 6 so the bribary can’t go on too much longer really…. but hopefully by then we will have pushed through a good chunk of stuff and the habit will have re-established itself (or it will be sunny and we can venture forth into the glorious Delamere again! We always get so much more done when she can stretch out on a blanket under the canopy of something so old and stately as a big old oak or horse chestnut (although you do have to watch out for conker shells!)
Anyway it filled the day up fairly roundly. She demanded more puzzles as an avoidance tactic at bedtime which I, with mock resistance, aquiessed to. It’s now nearly 10pm and she’s still bouncing about in her room which doesn’t bode too well for her getting up early in the morning! I really should make better use of that time before she wakes up.
I need to spend some time fairly urgently in tidying and sorting out this week. I have made use of the great exchange rate to buy next year’s core and also made use of a discount code to order maths and English Stile stuff from LDA which should all be arriving rather soon. And the LEA woman comes in under a month and I would like to ahve somewhere she can safely sit down without risking life and limb! Not to mention the fact that my desk has disapeared under several feet of crud which makes finding anything impossible…. Oh to be organised…….
