
The poor daffodils have taken a bit of a weather pounding over the last few weeks.

It’s official. Two years ago to the day that Hawklad’s SCHOOL AT HOME project started. He hasn’t been in a classroom in all that time. That’s a long time. Is it too long to make a school return realistic, manageable for him. Only time will tell. All I can do is support him. Try to maintain a safe, happy home and keep as much of the pressure off him as I can. Progress has to be at his pace. See how he goes, see what he ultimately can manage and what he wants to do.
Looking back, we both laughed today. We remember the conversations back in March 2020. I think we both remember saying, ‘let’s give it a week’. That should have been ‘give it a week plus an extra 103 weeks….’.
Back in 2020 we had been struggling with school. They had bottom setted him. They had given up on his dyslexia. Yes we had been thinking about homeschooling. Then we crashed unexpectedly into these two years. This odd halfway house. Not true homeschooling, not true classroom schooling. The SCHOOL AT HOME project, happy second birthday.
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Gluten free cake…..
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Oh that’s sad. I love gluten, I use it to make delish vegan BBQ spare fibs. I just make sure I also eat something like beans or have figgy biccies 🍪🍪🍪 with my cuppa, to combat the bind. Still, we all have something we have to look out for, our personal kryptonite. I find eating a whole Frys chocolate cream in one go is mine. 🍫 I go straight to sleep, zonk, gone for a while. Going to end with a Robert Burns:
“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”
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I hope you baked a cake to celebrate!!
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Tried unsuccessfully to bake one today.
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so sorry
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Wow. That long now? Many frustrations, I know. Yet I am sure a bond is being woven over this shared thing and what an opportunity to shape his path in a very important way. God has purpose in all things, even when it’s difficult to see.
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I think you guys have done very well. The online schooling didn’t teach the kids much.
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Thanks Sadje
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These years are flying. It will be Len’s 1 year anniversary at the end of the month 😥
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I couldn’t get my head round that the time seemed to go so slowly but the years just kept ticking on.
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I was married 9 years first time, and 43 with Len, so the nights are the hardest 🤗
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Thanks for the photo of daffodils. I miss seeing them.
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They are beautiful
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Happy Anniversary.
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Thank you
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TBH, I think it’s worked out much better for your son
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We are here, we deal with what is in front of us.
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You know, my family and I got all Facebook memories yesterday and the day before of when our dog past. She passed away about a week before the Vets shut down to people coming inside. She died just before COVID really hit. I always forget that, lol
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That is a marker in time. You never forget them ❤️
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You do not. Sometimes, like now, with the cat just passing. I don’t like being reminded she died too, lol
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Sounds like you found yourself in a loop.
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It feels like that.
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I see.
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Hard to believe it’s been that long. Perhaps in a weird way it hasn’t all been negative?
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It does seem mind blowing some times
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You have done well👍🏻
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Thank you
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Bet he is progressing better under your tutelage Gary.
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I hope he is
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🙂
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I went back in to my office for the first time in two years yesterday. I too celebrated an anniversary. I have to say, working from home is infinitely preferable.
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I bet that was a shock to the system
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Let’s say I haven’t missed it much.
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Such a long time.
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When you say it out loud, it seems like an eternity
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But you have done so well making it a learning environment for him. He is is lucky as you’re lucky to have him.
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Thank you 🙏
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Always ❤️
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