It's day 6! I'm still battling through the lurgy but I think I'm winning! Woo! If any of your children would like to show me their pictures or have a special mention, you can contact me on facebook or twitter and I will do my best to say hello to everyone. :D I'm having so much fun, having to ...
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Calling all grown ups!
Be honest, reading the title, did you immediately think I meant you or was there a slight hesitation, a modicum of doubt? The reason I ask is that I'm still wondering when, if ever, I will feel like a grown up. When I was a teenager, I'd see woman of my age, and think that they were so sorted and ...
I’m a tantrum survivor. Sort of!
As I sat, white faced, close to tears, next to a pale, blotchy, hiccuping daughter, I tried to work out exactly why what just happened had happened. Believe it or not from that description, no major tragedy had befallen us, no near miss in the car, no death of a beloved pet, we still had all our ...
‘You can’t sit with us!’ (A post trying very hard not to compare 5 year olds to Regina George!)
So my little baby has now been in school for 4 weeks & she seems to be settling in fairly well, apart from some night wakings & subsequent appearings in our bed in the early hours. The thing that breaks my heart into itty bitty pieces is that she has been saying that some girls in the ...
Dear neighbours.
Dear neighbour, You're new and we don't know you all that well so I couldn't pop round and explain but I really really want to reassure you that Friday evening truly isn't our weekly 'torture the daughter' event. All the screaming, wailing, begging, splashing and thrashing around, it genuinely ...
A day of firsts.
I had an exciting day yesterday with two new firsts. We were invited to the book launch of a children's author who was celebrating publishing her 150th book. She had become a little disillusioned with the whole publishing process and this felt like her revival. She has never had a book launch and so ...
