http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum A Parent's Perspective from a Ross High Mum Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:32:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been shaking out the piggy banks and flexing the credit cards for the past few weeks, eyes screwed up and fingers firmly in my ears.  The BBC series South Pacific has become compulsory Sunday night viewing in the Guineapig household.  We're going on holiday.  Had I mentioned that?  A BIG holiday.  ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/06/11/spending-the-inheritance/ Needle in, blood out. Quick chat with Sally, the practice nurse. Go home.  Forget about it. That's been the normal 3 monthly routine for the past year or so, and far more frequently before that. But there's been a change at our local surgery.  One practice has split into two and our ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/05/27/on-blood-tests/ I've done it.  I've stopped prevaricating and finally done it. :shock: :smile: :grin: :cool: :razz:   More details will follow, I'm sure.  But things to do, you know. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/05/13/things-to-do/ So, 10am I dropped off a jittery, jumpy, couldn't-sit-still GP2 for his first exam.  "I'm not nervous" he said.  Hmm.  By the time we got to the school he had my stomach turning somersaults.  Maths. It started yesterday, 3pm.  "Mum! My calculator's broken".  "It'll be the battery" she said sagely and spent ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/05/06/im-not-nervous/ This morning's list: Send off forms for school travel passes (oops - should have been on last week's list.  Oh well).   :oops:     Book our holiday.   ;-)    Started.  And we're probably going here:  Dolphin Bay Divers (among other things) Tax the car   :-(     Why is the simplest thing never simple? Go through tender application.  A big ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/04/29/to-do-a-list-of-things/ Three weeks and counting... Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag GPM:  "That's 3 weeks. THREE weeks. Well OK 23 days and a few hours until Higher English.  You won't be able to put it off any longer then." GP1:  "I kno-o-ow." Nag. Nag, nag, nag, nag. "So have you learned that poem? Read that book? Written out ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/04/21/in-denial/ I'm sure we all have friends hovering on the periphery of our consciousness. Friends who have been important in a particular stage of our life but with whom we may have lost touch. Even so, we think about them often and know that if we were to meet up, we would ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/04/20/on-friends/ Mothers' Day was spent sitting at the side of a swimming pool, watching one son win a well-earned bronze medal in backstroke, just reward for recent enthusiasm and hard work, whilst his younger brother swam a valiant 400m with his goggles in his mouth.  You'll probably realise that the mouth is not ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/03/30/mothers-and-sons/ No. 37  Homage to Tracy Emin Alternatively known as No. 49.  The horizontal filing cabinet  or No. 51.  Revision?             I warned him it would be blog fodder.    :roll:  http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/03/23/life-and-times-of-a-teenager/ Oh dear.  Personally, I blame Ollie.  If it wasn't for his internet safety evening, I would probably be totally relaxed, stress-free and friends with everyone.  As it is, I've become embroiled in an argument with a sport's Governing Body about personal information from their membership database that they are making freely available online, ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/guineapigmum/2009/03/10/paranoid-moi/