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Where's your homework?!?


Sunday evening, phone goes ping and it's one of the Mums in Izzy's class asking if anyone has the Latin prep for the test tomorrow. "What test?!?" I ask Izzy, "Have you learnt yours?" "Oh, I don't know where my sheet is" she says, like that's OK! So I duly print it out (thank goodness for someone having mentioned it) and within 2 mins she has run through it and is pretty much word perfect - I guess that's the verbal bias kicking in then. Abi also has a test on Tuesday - science - and also seems not to know where her sheet is to revise. Why do neither of my children see the need to bring these things home - it's not for want of us telling them how important it is!


This weekend Abi has been off hunting at Angies and so Glenn whisked her out of school on Friday a bit early (missing games not science) and so as to miss the traffic. They've developed a bit of a routine for this - Glenn now takes her on the back of the bike and she absolutely loves it. She wears my protective clothes (helmet and all), all of which fit her as well as they fit me, and she plugs her music into the headset and settles down for the hour or so it takes them to get there. She loves it so much that she bugs him pretty much every weekend to go out for a ride... she is definitely her father's daughter. I did worry about the risk but it's a safe bike, he's a very safe rider and as he said - he's hardly going to do something that puts her or him in danger. I now worry much more about how much she enjoys it - doesn't bode well for future hobbies!


So while Abi was away riding, Izzy made the most of having us all to herself. She was at a sleepover with Effie on Friday straight from school which stretched in Saturday lunchtime, or Saturday afternoon by the time I had picked up and stayed for a cup of coffee and a good long chat. As ever the subject was schools. At least we can say we are ahead of many of the parents with knowing the basics of what needs to be thought through- some are still finding their way through the foothills (as we were this time last year with Abi) and it's all a bit daunting still.


Effie has a pony, Sugar, so Izzy's sleepover consisted of a ride and copious amounts of trampolining and gymnastics. Since last week Izzy has now perfected her backbend kickover (which is pretty impressive) and her handstands are now putting anyone from my yoga class to shame - why aren't we all as bendy as her?!? I have to video her 10 times a day - at least we have evidence of how far she has come.


In other news I had my aligners fitted on Monday so I have spent the week lisping and trying to get into the routine of having a brace again! The decision to get them was partly cosmetic but more so because my bottom teeth are slowly becoming more and more crooked and as they do get harder to clean (the cosmetic bit). The aligners are made of clear plastic and are a bit like 2 ultra thin gum guards. I have to wear them for 22 hours a day and they are changed every 2 weeks. For the first 3 days my whole jaw ached and it was almost as bad taking them out as having them in. Now it's all settled down and my main challenge is trying to achieve 22 hours of wear. It sounds easy but given you need to clean your teeth after eating before putting them back on, and you can't wear them for any type of eating or drinking (other than water), it's not as easy as it sounds. What it does mean is that my teeth have never been so clean and that I'm eating hardly anything between meals and limited hot drinks. So crash detox / diet as well as straight teeth - watch this space for the slimmed down, straight teethed me (check back this time next year...)!

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