small victories
today has been a day for small victories.
Aprilia made eggy bread for lunch and cleared up properly afterwards. It was lovely too! I took some pics of her as it will do for one of the clauses in her Brownie cook badge but then looked at them and realised my kitchen really is too messy so she needs to do it again once I’ve tidied up!
She also did the division page in Wizard Whimstaff despite it being really badly explained in there and me needing to resort to much simpler means, like sharing out mini eggs - and yes, aren’t we being restrained still having mini eggs a full week after Easter!!
Then there was her reading comfortably a small wodge of "level E" readers wich are supposed to be for 4-5 year olds and have an interest level to match…. Oh Boy, I’ll be glad when she stops with the baby steps and does that explosion into reading thing so we can leave the "learning to read" books behind! Only 1 more level E to go and you know? that my "accidentally" get lost before morning….. I can feel a reward Fairy book coming on (or at least thre would be if she would fall asleep so I could sneak it into her room!)
She also spent a few hours doing braiding on our cardboard "braiding wheel" made last year after the re-enactment thing we went to. It took us a few minutes to work out how to do it again but it’s simple enough. She has already done a longer braid in an afternoon than she managed in the entire week she persevered with it lsat year. Funny what a difference 6 months can make really! And she only found it because I turned teh compost in her craft drawers at the weekend because ther was more stuff out of the drawers than in them which just goes to show that having stuff tidy does make them more likely to be used.
and then there was the parchemnt craft project, I have to leave the room whist she does it as the noise of the nib crying in pain at being crushed into the parchment makes my toes curl, but the results are getting better all the time and this is, aparently somethng for Granny. It’s a little gift box (really little) and she’s not sure what to put in it yet but Granny will love it anyway I’m sure.
Oh, and we did our "school" bits too (whilst she braided mainly)
and just to prove it wasn’t just a day for her to have victories, I got the mind map finished for my TMA. I was going to polish it off this evening but I think I’ve hit taht "slightly too tired to write anything more intelectual than a blog post before going to bed" phase!
