As most of you know I gave up my permanent job in July to spend the summer with Frog and Rowdy.
Now of course they are back at school. I was worried that with freelancing and setting up my own business that I'd have less time with them during term times, even though we'd have more time together in the holidays. But, delightfully and unexpectedly (so far at least), I've had more time with them than I did before.
It's only an extra 45 minutes more than we used to have after school and work finished so it's certainly not structured-activity time or doing-lots-of-things time; it's simply taking-time-to-be-together time. We have leisurely suppers where we laugh about the day and moan about the teachers! Their bath-time lasts from hot to cold (literally, really cold) and best of all there's plenty of time for stories.
What awe and wonder there is in being slow!
Friday 24 September 2010
Wednesday 15 September 2010
summer holidays
As I write it seems that summer is well and truly over.
It was my first ever summer holidays at home with my children and a thoroughly enjoyable one too. I learned so much just hanging out with them every day. The most important lesson: slow down. It's so important to take time just to be (as opposed to do).
We lay down on the floor face to face and chatted about nonsense.
We read stories. And made some up too.
We went camping and toasted marshmallows round the bonfire, made new friends and fed pigs.
We climbed St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall and imagined pirates coming to catch us.
We swam and sunbathed at the lido, the Frog perfected her diving and Rowdy and I rated her, Olympic style. Then we all pretended to be synchronised swimmers.
We saw Toy Story at the cinema and battled with the 3D specs.
We explored parts of Kew Gardens we'd never been to before and made camp under the branches of a tree while it poured with rain outside.
We ate a lot of picnics!
But mostly we didn't do much at all - just hung out together and enjoyed each other.
Awe & Wonder at its most profound.
It was my first ever summer holidays at home with my children and a thoroughly enjoyable one too. I learned so much just hanging out with them every day. The most important lesson: slow down. It's so important to take time just to be (as opposed to do).
We lay down on the floor face to face and chatted about nonsense.
We read stories. And made some up too.
We went camping and toasted marshmallows round the bonfire, made new friends and fed pigs.
We climbed St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall and imagined pirates coming to catch us.
We swam and sunbathed at the lido, the Frog perfected her diving and Rowdy and I rated her, Olympic style. Then we all pretended to be synchronised swimmers.
We saw Toy Story at the cinema and battled with the 3D specs.
We explored parts of Kew Gardens we'd never been to before and made camp under the branches of a tree while it poured with rain outside.
We ate a lot of picnics!
But mostly we didn't do much at all - just hung out together and enjoyed each other.
Awe & Wonder at its most profound.
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