1. Writing
2. Talking
3. Reading
I have been back at The Office, full-time, for One Whole Year. I just read my blogs from March last year. Pang. Little six-month-old Son 2. I know I’ve done brilliantly keeping at work, keeping well, keeping everything together and keeping time with the boys sacred. Keeping at The Blog, which I think has helped ward off depression. But Pang Oh Pang. You really don’t get it back, do you? Thankfully I have a week off now, which is why I’m writing this so late. It always takes me forever to finish on Fridays before I have leave. Stinking cold. Exhausted. And I’ve been reading a year ago, when I was hoping to get back into my pre-pregnancy clothes. Wouldn’t it be great if you lost weight wnen you cut down on your sleep? Much fairer to mothers.
Little 18 month old Son 2 is sliding down the stairs on his tummy now. Fast. With a daredevil grin. A year ago he was just on solids, and just had his first teeth. Now he wants the Wiggles on the telly, he wants a smoothie from the shopping, he can say bear, and ba (for bath, sheep and ball) and dum dum for dump truck and di di for digger. And bye bye and mama and hallo, and mi for milk. And snap snap for crocodile. Accompanied by a dance. And a point at the DVD pile.
Son 1 aged 4 y 6m finished at Nursery for Easter today. He lay on his bed this evening and looked up at his animal alphabet wall chart, sounding out the start of all the letters. Foxed a bit by N. And baffled by Q. He also for the first time stopped me in a story to sound out the letters of a word m-on- k-ey. I was thrilled, but none of it is anything to do with me. I’ve deliberately not taught him to read because I Do Not Believe In Forcing Boys To Read Too Early. It Will Put Them Off. Nothing to do with never having a minute to sit down with him. 26 letters and 40ish sounds? I haven’t got the time. Just that year. Sitting in cyberspace. Maybe one day he’ll read about himself.
Tags: back to work, blog, daredevil, Easter holiday, expressive language, Learning to Read, reading, stairs, tiredness, Working Mother
