While Max was having his eyes sucked and burned off (I probably shouldn’t have read the description of surgery on the way down to him having it done) we went to the Zoological Museum to distract ourselves. This was quite difficult actually as I was mentally planning how I was going to run the family […]
Archives for November 2012
Sponsored Video: Design a Natwest Pig.
I think all of our generation must remember the Natwest pigs, their adverts and the tremendous desire to collect them they provoked, I don’t think it can just have been me anyway, I know I was devastated that my parents wouldn’t move my (paltry) savings to Natwest so that I too could have a family […]
The in a minute mummy
Dear Bene, You are nine months old. I'm so late with this post. Again. I fear this is the way it will go on now. To be honest though, little fella, I think I've been avoiding this one. I remember writing a post to your brother when he should have been nine months, it was […]
Shameless Pimp.
A friend has kindly nominated my blog here You can vote once a day apparently, no sign up, just click a button. I’d be very grateful if you would, just so I don’t come bottom! (I’m pending approval for 24hrs! Sounds quite appealing 😉 )
Making Poppies for Remembrance Day & other Autumn crafts.
We dipped into Remembrance Day crafts again today, ready for spending some time on World War work on Thursday and Friday. We’ve covered this a fair bit over the last two years and so it was easy to pick up the threads of previous work, especially as Fran has been doing WW1 recently too. We […]
An achievement of mind over things that don't matter.
Of all the things I could get angry about, Amelie’s beam cartwheel is the thing that I still can’t really let go of. I am still so cross that temporarily losing a gym move, when she was only just 8, led to a bout of what I still think was just bullying and meant she […]
Cambridge Trip & Build a Bear
Halloween day time was spent in Cambridge this year waiting for Max to have his eyes lasered, a suitably (in my head) gruesome activity for Halloween. We had a very nice day there in fact, and did various things I want to blog as they were great, but I can just give you a taster […]
And now she is 8.
Josie, my little firework girl, is 8. I can't even say it seems no time, because so much has happened since, but still, I can hardly believe my littlest girl, my baby girl, is 8 years old. This year, for perhaps the last time, she still wanted all her presents from our shop; dolls, toy […]
Eye'll think about it.
Here is what Max wrote up about his laser eye surgery consultation. Yes, he’s done now, but this was very much part of the process so forgive us for being a bit behind. It’s been a hell of a few weeks! I’m mildly relieved to discover that he gave it as little thought as I […]
Halloween 2012
The Halloween costumes the girls created were probably the best they had ever done – and one advantage for me was I’m now very much a credit card facilitator of the whole thin; I don’t have to make! Fran and Amelie both adapted an idea from Pinterest. Fran had 10 metres of black netting from […]
