Well we had a really quiet weekend alhamdulillah relaxing after a hectic week where the boys stayed over at a friend and the friend then came and stayed over here, swimming, sports, madressa, quran teacher for me etc mashaAllah. DS1 went with his dad to collect some friends from a week long stay at smallwood manor in Saffordshire. They are from a Turkish Muslim organisation that hire out the manor for a week and take loads of kids away, they get to do lots of sports, walks, nature studies etc. They have different wings so the separation of girls and boys is easy and they also use the pool at different times. Seems perfect. Infact, it is such a lovely place that it has inspired me to see if I can organise some sort of retreat, Muslim HE holiday or something..... make dua inshaAllah!
DH is also putting in a toilet and shower/wet room kind of thing downstairs so the kids have been watching him with great interest - handing over tools etc. They have watched and learned about plumbing, mixing cement and getting told off (they just don't realise that when a man comes in with a heavy bag or piece of porceline in his hand they need to move out of the way).
Well we did some maths and english at the weekend but that was about it on the home school front as I had lots of work to catch up on especially as it's that time of year for businesses to get their accounts in order...... a daunting task for me as I did no accounts at all last year oooops!
Kids feel a bit deflated as they was not moved on in their Quran today (I did't push them into praticing this week so I hope they see the effect of their laziness inshaAllah). The snack today was chocolate rice crispy cakes skillfully made by DS1. Here they are in their full glory mashaAllah......
In fact they were so yummy that this is what was left on the plate after only a few minutes.....
DS1 also had to fight of dad to save some to hand out at madressah tomorrow inshaAllah. I need to go shopping so not sure what the rest of the day will bring.......
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