still alive!
studying has used up all my word-allocation for most of the week, even stories have suffered as there really is only so many words I can read in one day before my brain explodes 
but anyway, a brief round up….
Lots of studying, surprised at how much I did actually remember, alarmed at the bits I didn’t even recognise!
Lots of her running round the soft play place
Lots of smoothies bought at aforementioned play place, she’s had her whole year’s worth of 5 a day!
Rainbows was great, the week before although they had all enjoyed it I came home fed up with bloody minded parents etc, this week all the parents were lovely, appreciative and on time…..
Thursday evening Aprilia suddenly decided she wanted to try to do a school routine sort of day, you know, get up early, put on some uniform, have breakfast grab a bag full of books etc, walk to school (ie walk round the block back home!) and have a full day of "school" I wondered if this was some sort of plea for more routine in her life…… Friday morning I dutifully woke her up early-ish, she slumped into my room, curled up on my bed and went back to sleep 
Eventually she decided that really school wasn’t going to happen that day so could we just go to the play place again, have a smoothie and have a chill out afternoon. Well, you know, I can live with that! I do wonder if she needs a bit more of a routine though. I downloaded a Spanish workbooky thing which seems to have met aprooval so I’m planning on doing a few different bits with her on the lines of a daily dip into Spanish, restarting the Drawing With Children at least 1 day a week, restarting some regular music practice, pushing the basic workbooky and reading bits so we get a bit of momentum back with them, reinstating science experiments (which seem to slip because i’m not organised enough to have everything to hand and hunting for it just doesn’t float my boat), encouraging her to do more productive crafty bits and doing some regular "PE" In fact getting back to our original "structured" philosophy that I drifted away from because I just love the idea of autonomy and having a self-educating child despite the evidence that I don’t have one!
Today I displayed my hormonal side at Kung Fu and wobbled pathetically through various bits, the instructor gave me a knowing look and told my training partner to be gentle on me cos I’m a girl and even tough girls can be fragile some days. How true…… I’ve spent the rest of the day drinking chocolate milk (well, it’s less calories than a whole bar of dairy milk and it does hit the spot!) and pootling in the garden with Aprilia.
