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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: goosepimple on August 15, 2012, 07:28:18 pm
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Scottish kids (the human kind) are back at school today and now its totally pouring rain, TOTALLY. Never mind kids are cosy watching a Spy Kids dvd. Could have done with them being off for another 3 weeks though to try and catch some sun :raining:
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Just stick them in the oven at weekends , they will turn out fine .
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Just stick them in the oven at weekends , they will turn out fine .
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Scottish kids (the human kind) are back at school today .
You lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky person.
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Two more weeks for ours!!! :tired: :rant: :roflanim: :tired:
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2 more weeks and counting the hours :rant: much as its lovely having the home, it soon degenerates into "she said..." "she hit me..." " she's wearing my jacket...." all flippin day. Goosepimple if you are feeling lost without little people, I will gladly send you mine ;)
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Next Thursday for ours (dumfries and galloway), but what a horrible summer for them. I feel for them. We haven't really done much. i had plans to go lots of time to the beach but no chance. It certainly has been a long drawn out summer or should I say a long few weeks having them at home
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Glad I am well passed all that :relief:
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Amazing how when you turn up at the school gate certain kids have grown about a foot taller over the summer hols, and then you look at your own and they have too - all that rain and the occasional hour of sun has done something - new uniforms again! :excited:
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I remember that. I used to send my boys to school in trousers that fitted and, by the time they got home, they'd grown out of them. ;D
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ours go back next tuesday/wednesday i cant wait i love them but 7 weeks is long enough!!!
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bit sad they are going back to school (tues) husband has really enjoyed having helpers now that they are big enough to do proper jobs (8 & 10) but i dont think it will be long before they will be asking for payment, this year they have paid in ice creams!
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2 LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG weeks left :tired: :tired: :tired: :tired: :tired:
Is there a banging your head against a wall smiley?
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bit sad they are going back to school (tues) husband has really enjoyed having helpers now that they are big enough to do proper jobs (8 & 10) but i dont think it will be long before they will be asking for payment, this year they have paid in ice creams!
Yup, ours are 8.5 and 11 years old, so just a bit older than yours and they have sussed the payment for jobs scheme, so no, you don't have long to wait. :huff:
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My kids are back to school today, no more moaning, peace and quite at last :relief: , well at least till 4pm.
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My kids are back to school today, no more moaning, peace and quite at last :relief: , well at least till 4pm.
...and its 4pm the first few days back that feel like all hell has broken loose when they first go back ;D I dreaded the baby starting school and yes, the days are long and quiet but soon as I have them all home bickering and being hyper about who did what (and snitching on each others antics at school) its chaos!![size=78%] [/size]
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2 LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG weeks left :tired: :tired: :tired: :tired: :tired:
Is there a banging your head against a wall smiley?
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Like it. ;D
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My daughter goes back to school in a couple of weeks. I've really enjoyed the holidays because she hasn't been on the phone with tales of what her class have been up to. She's a teacher :-J
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Not back to school for another 3-4 weeks back in Italy where I come from!
I used to love it when I was a kiddie myself and I know for sure my mum wasn't impressed with driving us to the stables all the time :eyelashes:
Now I'm almost ready to have my own children , I know they'll complain why we don't live in Italy and I'll be glad we don't!!! More peace when they get back to school :excited:
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Our kids are in a country school of 52 kids total with only 2 classrooms. The P4 P5 P6 and P7's are all in one class - a table for each year and they have 2 teachers teaching at the same time in the one class. Eh? Hope it sorts itself out soon, kids are saying its chaotic at the moment. :thinking:
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Our kids are in a country school of 52 kids total with only 2 classrooms. The P4 P5 P6 and P7's are all in one class - a table for each year and they have 2 teachers teaching at the same time in the one class. Eh? Hope it sorts itself out soon, kids are saying its chaotic at the moment. :thinking:
That's weird - two teachers in the room at the same time? Ours have joint classes as well (only the P7 this year on their own), and I have always been very pleased with the arrangements. It means much more teaching by ability and mixed groups, stretching mine every so often more than would have been if they all were the same age/class. But it doesn't always work, and probably not with P4 right up to P7...
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Yes its Westruther School Anke - they used to be at Ancrum a few years back which was a similar size but 3 classrooms which helped. Our school attendance role has just jumped from 35 to 52 over the past year so it suddenly seems very busy. Seemingly the 2 teachers thing worked really well at Channelkirk (Oxton) school so we are being open minded for the time being. My eldest is in P7 now though and so want her to have a good grounding before secondary. See how it goes....
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My children went to a school with a roll of just over 20 children in two classrooms. One teacher had P1, P2, p3, the other had P5, p6, P7. P4 went into the smaller of the two. It worked very well and I felt my children did very well there. At one point, the numbers went down to 18 and not much prospect of increase so one teacher had to leave. That left the head teacher to teach all seven years in one room with visiting teachers to do art, music and PE. We started to worry that it would close completely. The children already had to travel 7 miles each way into the next village for school and would have had a much longer journey over hills that were sometimes closed in bad weather so we relieved when more families moved into the village. When we left the island, the roll had gone up to 31 - the most it had been in years.
Incidentally, when I told my family that we were moving to Scotland, my then SIL, a teacher in England, said that they would get a good education as the Scottish system was better than the English.
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:wave: Talking of small schools, my daughter goes to a local school with only 9 pupils (was only 7 last year) and getting a very good education. I have to say that 52 pupils of various ages and two teachers does sound chaotic. Small schools are great unless the numbers get too high, I suppose :-\
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Yes its been great up to now but getting busy does have its problems. Kids are saying things are settling down now but when I've been in to do gardening club it always seems chaotic, even when there were about 20 kids less than there are now. Trying to put pressure on the Head Teacher to get the nursery into a Portakabin.
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Our school went from 40 something to 63 the year my son started. Its split over 3 classroom and pretty cramped but they seem to be getting on well with it all. They have lots of teachers and classroom assistants, I've lost count.
My little girl just start school last week and I'm still missing her constant chatter, well a little!! :thinking:
Are any of you "stay at home mums"? I feel a bit like I'm the only one on the planet at the moment :-\
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I'm a stay at home mum Oneeyedhen. When my 4th and youngest daughter started school last year I felt rotten!! We'd had such a lovely time at home just the 2 of us, I was bereft!
It gets easier.
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I'm sort of a stay at home mum. My three boys are 8, 7 and 5. When the youngest started school last September I volunteered a couple of afternoons a week at his old nursery school in the village. In January a member of staff left and they offered me some paid hours, so I now work three mornings a week and have started a college course so that I'm qualified. I have a feeling once I've finished my course I'll be asked/expected to do a few more hours. It's literally the only place I could work at the minute because she lets me come in after I've dropped the boys off at school so I have no childcare to organise.
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Thanks plumseverywhere. I only have 2 kids but like you I've enjoyed having Catrina around this last year. I just have my labrador, 25 various poultry and a farmer to keep me going during the day now ::) .
I have put my name on the list at school for 'helping out', I thought that might open a few doors. Not too wide though ;)
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I used to help out with the gypsy and traveller children at our old school, listening to reading and supporting them with school work as their parents couldnt' always do it at home . Its incredibly rewarding and you get to know your children's school friends too! I also used to love being in earshot of the classroom and hearing what my girls were up to. This was how I learnt that my eldest was a bit of a monkey at school, especially with the boys around ::) Have started my soap business now so am quite busy with that, particularly at Xmas so between that and the livestock, the piles of washing and my poorly mum the time does get filled!
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Yes, I'm another stay at home mum. Mine are 10 and 13 now.
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Well I don't like the "stay-at-home" term... I am a "work-at-home" mum if anybody asks! My two are 9 and 11, older one last year in primary school. But I would have to give up most of the smallholding if I were to go out to work - and then have to pay childcare, and lots of the things that are now produced at home...
At our school most of the mothers have "drifted" back into employment, only then to be hit when the after-school club closed down as there weren't enough kids using it...
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Like that Anke :thumbsup: ... often feel people look at me as though I'm an alien when I say I don't work. And I DO work really hard. Hubbie often has to work away and couldn't live this life style easily if I went out to work as well. Would love to do something from home ... like you Plums, but haven't worked out what yet. ::)
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Its true, I don't think even WE realise how hard we work at home.
Today I shared the housework between 4 children and myself and it surprised me that there was so much to go around, kitchen looks good now though ;)
It'll come to you In the hills - I had no idea I'd end up with Its Baaath Time, it kind of found me!
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Have you noticed ladies on here, that even if you are a work at home mum, somehow the men always think you don't do anything >:( and that they are the ones who are the hard workers
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Its true, I don't think even WE realise how hard we work at home.
Today I shared the housework between 4 children and myself and it surprised me that there was so much to go around, kitchen looks good now though ;)
It does take three times as long if I hand out work to my children in the house.... but they are very good now with dog walking, doing the hens and pigs and I can ask them tol et out/shut in the goats quickly... but then I don't really get to do serious housework in summer... ;D we just live with the mess.
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Very true. Mind you, I asked my 9 year old to mow the bit of grass by the nursery paddock today...
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Love it!
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Great pic plums. Gave me a shock when I first saw it - thought it was my daughter, looks so like her.
I'm pretty much a workaholic at home mum - was working part-time lecturing at art college but the money is so rubbish and its such a hassle getting to Edinburgh have decided not to do it this year - plenty plenty to do here as we are practically rebuilding the place, it's a full time and a half job, but I love it. I do pity my OH sitting in an office all day, knowing he'd far rather be here doing stuff.
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I was a stay at home mum when my first two were small. We started oiur spinning and weaving business just before having the youngest and I felt I missed out so much, although I was working from home. He definitely missed out. When he was four and not at school, we noticed that business seemed down. I caught him telling people to go away because the workshop was closed. His father was furious but I asked son why he had done it. I'll never forget his reply. "So you'll have time to play with me." Guilt? It was horrendous. I thought that, because I was around where he could see me, that was alright and I always stopped when the older two came in and didn't start again until they were all in bed. I then made an 'arrangment' with him. He wouldn't try to stop customers any more and, every day after lunch, I would spend an hour playing with him. We did whatever he wanted (playing shops every day for a month - what fun). It worked and he was much happier. Still feel bad when I think about it though and he's 29 now.
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That rings bells Mad Goat, I was working as a self-employed architect when we had our first. I caught myself a couple of times thinking about building details when I was supposedly playing with her and wishing it was her sleep time so I could get the drawings out - after I had done that about ten times I thought I should make a career choice. Gave up the self-employed work (had 2 days teaching at uni anyway) and stayed at home to be a mum - no regrets. Its the most important job you'll ever have.
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I was district nursing when I was pregnant with my 3rd - having 2 toddlers hanging on your leg begging you to stay at home was heart wrenching. I had to return to work when my eldest was only 4 months old, I sobbed leaving her at the creche at the hospital where I worked and used to run over to visit her on lunchbreak! One day she clung to the nursery nurse when it was time for me to take her home because she loved them so much there but it broke my heart :'(
I am incredibly lucky that hubby earns enough for me to stay home and be here for the girls and all of their plays, concerts, sports days and more importantly to be able to dash to school and collect them if they are poorly at the drop of a hat. Running my little business on my own terms fits in perfectly, I really really feel for my friends who have to work and have the guilts :-\
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Its good to know other people are in the same boat. Apart from wanting to be here for my babies (4 and 6). My OH is a beef and arable farmer so there are times of year when he cant be relied on to help with the kids at all and I do feed cattle and be the gofor when he's busy. Like your all saying its not like I'm wondering what to do all day. I'll get used to the new routine I suppose :( .
I did make some jewelry last winter I just need to find a place to sell some. I wondering about the christmas gifts on here?
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Good place to start :thumbsup:
There's other places like Etsy etc but I've not used them for my soap
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true saying, why have a dog and bark yourself. ;D
Why have a power mower for the lawn when a goat can do it for free. ;) Your daughter has used her own way of thinking here and is quite happy with it. ;)