Wednesday was a really tough day. Every so often, a grief day emerges, out of nowhere except a combination of events and hormones and co-incidences and moments of unexpected thoughtlessness. And Wednesday started, as it so often does, with a dream. I never dream about Freddie; I have barely dreamed of him at all; I […]
Archives for 2013
Lax Toddler Parenting #4: The Cardboard Box Edition
Now, obviously I’m a big advocate of toys, what with making my living selling them, but I’m the first to admit that a REALLY good cardboard box can hardly be beaten for sheer value. There are masses of post on this blog, I’m sure, of pictures of the girls in the olden days when stock […]
Review: trying Gluten Free Ready Meals by Ilumi.
A while ago we were offered the chance to try out some foods especially for allergy sufferers. My little niece had just been diagnosed as Coeliac, a condition that takes gluten avoidance to a whole level above what most people with gluten intolerances have to cope with. So I asked Ilumi to send some to […]
Tiny Changes to the Living Room
I’ve probably moaned a lot that my living room doesn’t please me. It has the nicest furniture in the house and is the biggest, lightest room. But somehow it gets covered in rubbish too often. Now the girls aren’t HE it is a little better and now Bene’s room is decorated there are less toys, […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #4: the big sister music edition
When possible, get someone else to entertain them would be one way of describing it. Or, harness the skills of other people in the household to offer stimulating and exciting opportunities to explore. Take your pick 😆 Bene loves Fran’s cello. It’s not a cheap cello either and also rather a precious one, for a […]
Favourite Fraction – not Fat and Forty.
If you know me on any of the instant gratification social media channels I live on, you’ll know I’ve been dieting. And I’ve been needily posting up my successes for cheerleading and praise 😆 If you remember back here when I was just starting out, I was already feeling a lot better. That photo was one […]
The ripple effect.
I’m determined to do more crafting from books I already own; even though I really want to create from my own brain, I lack the skills and the only way to learn is to practise. I went to a workshop a while ago and bought a book so I thought I would try a riff […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #3: good toys, tidy cupboards
The lazy edition. Find incredibly good toys, like these ones (I’ll find the link tomorrow), introduce them and then pick up your crochet and sit back. I’m never going to spend hours in messy play and all that stuff; when it comes to toddlers I’m all for the least emotionally painful approach. Spend money 😉 […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #2: drawing on walls
There is a particular type of silence which all parents learn about; the sound of silence that can be created by a toddler doing something they ABSO. LUTELY. SHOULD. NOT. BE. DOING. Been there? I only made a cup of tea; he was in the room next door and I stirred the tea and mused […]
Baby, you're a firework.
My Josie is 9. My babiest girl, my little JosieJo. 9 years old. I’m a long way past making their birthdays about their births. Everything that once surrounded this day for me is long gone in a stream of best birthdays ever and the amazing girl who has blossomed in front of us this last […]
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