My child of the 80s
At the moment we are obsessed with all things ’80s. It started when Daddy discovered all his old He-Man toys in the loft and gifted them to the boys, and […]
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New Year starts tomorrow…
It seemed like a good idea at the time: 8 adults, 8 kids, sleeping over at a New Year’s Eve party. No babysitter required, no designated driver, no expensive taxi […]
Raising our spirits, at Chessington Garden Centre, this Halloween
Well, the clocks went back this weekend and it seems that no-one told the boys… so we’ve been up since 3am two days in a row now! Yawn! Today is […]
Now You Are One: A Love Letter to my Number 2
Happy first birthday, little one. How this year has flown! Faster than any I can remember. Now you are one and, I suppose, technically no longer a baby. Although, of […]
It gets worse before it gets better… Right?!
Last week was our first week at nursery school for big brother and it has been hard on us all. For the year that I was back at work, between […]
An Unseasonal Egg Hunt
It’s been three days since we last saw the eggshells. Three days since I made a large pan of scrambled egg for tea and discarded the shells on the kitchen […]
Autumn: season of misty eyes & mellow fruitfulness
I love Autumn: that crisp feeling in the air, the crunch of brightly coloured leaves underfoot, puddles made for jumping in, conkers, pumpkin carving, frosty mornings, getting wrapped up in […]
Wine: A Lesson Learnt
The bottle of wine seemed like a good idea at the time. It was medicinal really. To dull the memory of the poo I found on the lounge […]
Brotherly Love: Following in his Brother’s Footsteps…
I’m an eldest child, my husband is an eldest child. We like to think that we understand the “lot” of the eldest child: destined always to get the blame because […]
One, Two, Three… I See The Sea! A Day of Two Halves.
This morning we were the worst parents in the world. Put simply: everything was wrong… The wrong amount of milk had been put on his bowl of shreddies, the wrong […]
