Just Jo!

We had invited ourselves over to Lin’s for dinner. We aimed to be there about 2p.m., but O decided to wash her hair fifteen minutes before we left. Seeing as she always has plaits and I have to do them for her, I was not terribly impressed, owing to lack of time. When questioned about the length of time spent in the bathroom, she was admittedly honest, “I was messing about”. Through gritted teeth, “Well, let’s get going now then shall we?” Having stopped off to pick up a paper for Lin, we were only ten minutes late.

Me and Lin (not grammatically correct, but, hey, I don’t care!) spent ages looking at blogs, with Lin eventually setting me up with this one. The kids were all extremely happy playing on X-box, O being even more excited because we don’t do game thingies at home.

We cooked dinner, fajitas, with Lin adding a lovely spice(!) mix into the stir-fried veg. Spice being the operative word, with O having her head blown off and having to drink copious amounts of water! Lin had to scrape her veg out but I was the only one brave enough to finish, owing to half a bottle of very chilled Chardonnay!

We set the kids up with a video while we sorted my blog… and finished the wine! I will sleep well tonight and dream of exciting things for O to do tomorrow regarding her ongoing Roman project.

Outcome of day? Lost tastebuds, gained a blog, great fun had by all!

After spending a so-called social call to my good friend Lin, and having spent numerous conversations dismissing blogs(!), she has now convinced me to set up my own. So here I am… after a bottle of Chardonnay!

Now… what do I say? Obviously I’m home-educating, for 18 months now. One daughter, Olivia, 9, at home and one son, Adam, 17, at college. We live near Lin and luckily enough another good friend who also home-eds. Depending on my mood, we are either completely autonomous or she has to do the dreaded workbooks.

Well, that’s my very first entry