Speaking of tamāhine 2, I'm hoping to get her enrolled with the Correspondence School in the next week or two. [I've at least filled in the form and with a bit of luck whaiāipo will tell me later today that he managed to get a certified copy of her birth certificate and posted it away for me?!]
I'm looking forward to starting her with some learning activities because today she let me know in no uncertain terms that she was unhappy to see her older siblings commence school work.
I need to create a schedule to include her more somehow.
At the moment my thoughts are to turn my attention to her by having the three big kids work on Time4Learning. This is what I semi-tried today ... but a little too late. Had I realised she would have a meltdown I would've organised this idea immediately. The only thing that delayed me from giving her attention was the fact that I hadn't finished working with tama 2 as he read his Montessori lessons before he started his Time4Learning lessons. I had to somehow appease her while completing tama 2's lesson. Okay, so in all reality it's a matter of a 15-minute block, but 15 minutes can feel like an hour when you're trying to teach and pacify at the same time. I'm sure you know what I mean, lol. It was my decision to keep working with tama 2 so I paid the consequences of running between the two, but again, it was my decision not to give in to her entirely.
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I bought these Brain Quest cards off TradeMe for only $7.00. To buy them brand new they're well over $20. It's cheaper to bring them in from the UK would you believe?! If I had enough money I'd buy them via the Book Depository in the UK. They offer free worldwide delivery and have a discount running until the 11th of December (I think). I've been dithering about whether to purchase some books from there or not with the homeschooling money which I should receive on Friday morning. It's a hard call whether to throw them on my visa when I know I have a new baby coming and bills. Plus I always panic that maybe my application for supervision allowance is delayed for some reason. It happened to a friend of mine, so who's to know eh?! What to do? What to do? ... Look, knowing me, I'm bound to go ahead and put the order in today or tomorrow!!!! The books are for school and when you get a good discount, you've gotta be mad not to take advantage of these things eh?!

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This time last year we were involving ourselves with a lot of Christmas-type activities. This year we're a little slower off the mark. Many reasons as to why, but here's tama 2 enjoying himself as Santa. It was so funny to see him come out of the front room to surprise me.




















