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Are we lucky or damn near perfect? Teenager rearing.

June 22, 2012 by

I reckon this post will come back to bite me on the posterior. I can nearly guarantee when in fact; I reckon I have just under 2 years before I’m holding my head in my hands and wailing ‘WHAT was I thinking?’ If it happens sooner than that, it is conclusive proof of that unwritten […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Fran, Uncategorized Tagged With: 50's family life, Cherie Blair, family law solicitors, family life, funny teenagers, parenting, parenting teens, SNORT at Cherie Blaire, teenagers, The House the Fifties Built, yummy mummies

Stuff we do.

June 21, 2012 by

I’ve got a post coming up sometime soon on why it’s been such a very long stream of at home days for so long and what we are doing about it, but while life has been mostly home, we’ve got on and done nice things. It’s been the mostly lovely, healing 4 months forums. We’ve […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Cookery, Hama Beads, Home Education, Photos Tagged With: baking, drawing manga, drawing Pokemon, felt sewing, kentwell sewing, making toys, Olympic Hama beads, wood work

This Baby Likes

June 19, 2012 by

I’ve not had a new idea for a while but now that the fogs of the last couple of years are lifting, I’m finally starting to get that old brain back. I like new projects. I REALLY like new websites. And I wanted to make something out of all this blogging that I would be […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire Tagged With: baby development blog, connect with mums online, new blog, newborn stories, real babies, real mums, This Baby Likes

Review: Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Video Sensor Monitor

June 18, 2012 by

You might remember that I posted a while ago about needing to move Ben into his own bed, for the sake of my sanity as much as anything. He slept in my bed on one side of a king sized mattress for the first 12 weeks or so. He’s been a really good sleeper from […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Reviews Tagged With: Apnoea mat for babies, Baby monitor, Closer to Nature Video Sensor Monitor, positive review for Tommee Tippee baby monitor with sensor mat, Tommee Tippee Monitor

WedEd: sewing, electromagnets (possibly) and The Listeners.

June 14, 2012 by

Yesterday was a good day. After a slow start my spirits soared as we came within a tiny distance of sponsoring six children in Niger, I was feeling disappointed in what I had achieved but actually, it suddenly struck me that in 3 days bloggers and readers of blogs have pledged £1700. We are going […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Poems, Science, Thinking, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: #shareniger, babies, learning to sit up, making electromagnets, making small sewn items with kids, poetry with kids, sewing with felt, The Listeners Poem, Walter De La Mare

Ramble ramble.

June 13, 2012 by

I’ve got a gazillion this to catch up on blogging wise. Oh how I miss the olden days when I could blog at 5pm each day about what we had done. I’m caught between feeling we do nothing and seeing what a huge amount actually goes on around here. There is masses of conversation ed […]

Filed Under: Cookery, Family Life, Home Education Tagged With: baking, bringing up baby, budgeting, electricty prices, Home Education, learnign to budget, school education, sewing, tudor costumes

Be part of something amazing for ShareNiger

June 10, 2012 by

Update: We stand at 9 child sponsorships and a total of just under £2500 pledged or donated. WorldVision are fully behind us and tweeting us out, in case you were concerned as to whether we have their blessing. I have included a screenshot of this at the bottom 🙂 A few weeks ago I posted […]

Filed Under: Charity, Thinking Tagged With: #shareniger, children are starving, do something amazing, donate, drought in West Africa, make a difference, motherhood, NIger, sponsor a child, WorldVision

Night out. All of us. Nearly.

June 9, 2012 by

We went to a wedding tonight, the first time we’ve all been at a social event in longer than I can remember. It was nice. I like weddings and this was a lovely one. I’m hopeless at small talk and I hate dressing up but a baby solves both those problems and at least now […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Grief, Photos, The Girls Tagged With: family life after child loss, grief and parenthood, moving on, the space in the family

The opposites of grief.

June 7, 2012 by

Woven inside and outside of everything that resides inside a busy family and bringing up a new baby and time passing by I’m aware, if less vocal, about some of the intangibles of grief. For so long I was racked and grazed by the contradictions of loss, of having a child but not having him, […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Thinking Tagged With: acceptance, coming to terms with losing a baby, confusing feelings after losing a child, grief, infant loss, losing a child, neonatal death

#madblogawards close tomorrow – please vote for some fab blogs!

June 5, 2012 by

Tomrrow is the closing date for the MAD Blog Awards, the very last chance to vote for Patch of Puddles in the two categories you can vote for it in. I’ve just done mine. I didn’t vote for myself (at least, I don’t think I did!) but I wanted to tell you some of the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, good blogs, Madblogawards, new friends, the mads

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