The Wobbly Family Blog

What did I do? I did something incredibly scary, something nobody should have to do for the first time at my age…… I went to the gym!

And guess what? I actually enjoyed it I think.

We had just had our meal last night, I told the other half I was just popping over the road. A friend wanted a hand to install MSN Messenger so off I went.

This is what happened next :-

Some pizza delivery company knocked on our door with a chicken parma (whatever one of those is) and hubby said “sorry not us mate” and the delivery driver left. Nathan came over to my friends house to let us know, and I asked my friend if she had ordered anything as last time that happened someone had written the house number down incorrectly. No it wasn’t them.

Then my mobile rang, it was hubby, saying “Your chicken thing is here”

“What are you on about?”

“The pizza shop has just dropped you off a chicken thing and you owe me six quid”

“Erm.. I haven’t ordered anything and anyway Nathan said you sent them away”

” I did but he came back said he’d called you and you confirmed that it was for you”

Me…”And you didn’t think to call me to check? For one thing we had just eaten, for another I don’t eat meat or cheese. You know all that! Why did you pay him?”

“Well he said he’d called you, what else was I supposed to do?”

This just makes me roar with laughter

Nathan’s 4th Christmas

Things have been a little hectic round here especially with the way everything is changing. Hubby has decided he is going to esentially do something he has always wanted to do for a living which is pleasing me, because I know he will be happier in general but there would have been no point in me pointing out the obvious. His reasons for not doing it before were due to the paperwork and red tape involved but I have got his brain over those obstacles and now he is going to be basically taking written off motorbikes, trying to rebuild them and if that’s not possible he is going break them for spares.  The next stage of thise is to find some suitable storage for works in progress but overall he is very much happier with life.

Nathan has really suprised me lately, he has gained so much confidence. He wanted to try some of the courses that they organise round here for children during the holidays and despite never having an interest in it he wanted to do a 3 day football course and shamefully I expected him not to want to go back the second day, but he actually loved it. The other thing he did was a 2 day dramathon, this is basically where the children get together, have a script to learn, make the scenery and props and the whole thing ends in a production. The play was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Nathans part was Mr Bucket, he did amazingly well, made some new friends and gained in confidence even more, such a difference to the child that got a nosebleed at the mention of standing and reading a passage from a book.

I’ve been really busy with work, loving helping people and the positive feedback really gives me a buzz but the best thing is not having had any pain killers in 7 weeks (apart from a paracetomol for a headache) as opposed to high strength ones every day since mid 2001. Life is pretty good!

Ryan and I have been to a barbecue this afternoon, Nathan had gone to a friends he met at the dramathon, so we’ve played swingball and limo (as Ryan called it) (limbo lol) , I took my own veggie burgers, but Ryan took the opportunity to eat a big juicy beef burger. The other kids there took turns in jumping into a large paddling pool but I think they were trying to water the plants in next doors garden, either that or get on You’ve Been Framed, speaking of which I’ve been editing some old videos and have uploaded one of Nathans first sports day

We’ve just returned from 5 nights camping with some other home educators. The camp itself was in a place called Goswick which is on the Northumberland coast just up from Holy Island. The site itself was lovely and we will definately be going back, very basic but the most amazing beach

I took this photo below which I think I will get blown up and put on the wall

Nathan wanted to be Mr Independant now he is 10, I am finding it very hard and although I did let him join in the fire lighting on the beach I had to draw the line at unsupervised but have promised he can have a fire in the garden one night. I’ve also perhaps rather stupidly promised him a penknife as one of the other boys had one, I’m trying to go back to the freedoms I enjoyed when I was his age and wondering why I have this perceived worry about his safety.
Rather strangely Ryan was a bit a reluctant to join in with much so I was little tied to the tent, but then he complained he was bored lol. He did however thoroughly enjoy the 3 hours we spent running away from the tide coming over the causeway at Holy Island

The nicest thing for me was to be able to sit and chat to other adults, the company was lovely.

A couple of weeks ago we had a sports day at our local home ed group, it’s one of things people usually ask about, but my memorys of sports day were never really good as Nathan found them extremely stressful although he did ’say’ he enjoyed them. My memorys of my own sports days aren’t particulary good either, I was pretty much always last. This was great, we sort of started off in teams but this soon merged into everyone just kept running until they had had enough, it was heart warming to see the two year olds running in the same ‘race’ as the 10 year olds. We had three legged races, wheel barrows, egg & spoon, sack races, a water race and of course an obstacle course. I read a story in the news the same day about a sports day being cancelled in case a child got hurt, the whole world has gone mad.

The next day was Nathans 10th birthday so we took food along and an olympic birthday cake to keep the theme going

On Sunday we went to the North Yorkshire Show, not the best place to go with a wheelchair due to having to go through a field with long grass in parts but at least this time they had marked out some easy routes.

The boys loved it, there was a huge bouncy castle which Nathan went on

Ryan and Jay went on the swing ride which Jay wasn’t too happy about despite totally enjoying the same ride a few weeks before at the May fair.

Nathan wanted to try a climbing wall, this photo is about as far as he got, although he did have both feet on the wall at one stage but I was well impressed he tried.

I have just written a post apologising for my absence and for some reason it didn’t seem to appear. Anyway I have been so very busy, mainly recovering of which I am all recovered. I have set up a new small business, something I can wrap around the family and so far that is going really well, but as always with something new like that there is always quite a bit of leg work. http://www.better-way.co.uk if you want a quick look

I am going to post a photo of my scar, it’s a bit graphic so if you want to see it the password is scar.

Speak soon x

Hi all, I came home Tuesday much to the suprise of everyone but I always recover quickly. I feel pretty good too as long as I behave and rest and at the moent this even includes the computer as I can’t sit here too long as the fluid builds up and I end up with elephant legs.

Will ccatch up properly soon

Denise

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