A week of changes

What a week it has been here-we exchanaged contracts on the house, we swapped our jeep for our mechanics (a long story but it makes sense), my car is up for sale (anyone interested in a 2.5 year old red & black smart?), Sam's chicken pox have come back and M has tonsilitis. All in all, life has changed quite a bit this week.

The most exciting news is the house, all being well we should get the keys on April 27th. Now it is a mad panic to pitch & purge (thank you MK for the great phrase), sort out this house and get everything in order for moving. Thank goodness we don't have to pack ourselves, I don't think I could face that. Clearing off the bookshelves to paint them today was stressful enough. I am sure we have enough books to start library and what did I buy when we were out today..that's right more books!! In my defense we needed them for our tudor project.

M is chuffed to pieces to be back at the wheel of the jeep again and now that it is back in action we really don't need 3 cars. It makes sense to sell mine, as sam and I will be doing more cross country driving and will need a sturdier car. Just hope we have more luck selling the car than we have had letting the house. Am going to list it in autotrader and the friday free ads tomorrow, once I have got a good pic of it.

We have made a start on our tudor project and have a list of ideas for our home ed group. We had a stab at drawing tudor roses and then designing an emblem for our family. I thought that an eagle & bulldog facing each other on a backround of red, white and blue would be good, while sam felt we were best represented by a Hot Wheels Acceleracer of his own creation. Lots of normals this week, we are almost done with Explode the Code 2 and are half way through Singapore Math 1a. We are zooming through science, at this rate we will be on Sonlight's second grade science by September. We are doing Roald Dahl for our read alouds, S really enjoyed James and the Giant Peach so we are starting Danny Champion of the World next week.

Sam has had a new outbreak of spots around his mouth. They don't bother him but they do look painful. They seem to be drying up though so hopefully this is the end.

Spent most of the day doing the bookshelves while sam went through is magazine collection and played on the computer. His fav game at the moment is definately the Scooby Doo one we picked up in the sale at tesco. Listening to him shout at the screen is so funny-he shouts at all the ghosts and monsters as well as the computer when it doesn't do what he wants.

Hopefully tomorrow will be lovely and sunny again so that we can polish up my car and tackle the backgarden. If not there is plenty inside to be getting on with.