Just short of 2 years ago I took Max for a day in Cambridge that would, in the words of my unemotional, stoical husband, change his life. Having been severely shortsighted since his early teens, with a prescription of -5.5, he had laser eye surgery. Within hours he could see better than he had seen […]
The Living Room Decoration Saga (Part 54)
You might remember back in January, I started to take my living room in hand; it was dingy and dark and badly in need of an upgrade to make it more pleasant to be in and a more comfortable space for us all to spend time in. As you can see from the previous post […]
Finding Family Time with Teens.
I’m not one of the parents who sighs with relief as the kids go back to school, though if I’m honest this year was slightly different as balancing teens, tweens, tots and (hmmm… travail would just be pretentious wouldn’t it?) work was very hard over the summer and a business that relies on Christmas is […]
Big and Little.
I was beyond tired today, of the worn out and grumpy and tearful with it variety. Fran let me go back to bed. When I woke up, they were deeply embroiled in kitchen stuff. There was a lot of mess (which they tidied up; result!) There was a lot of hard work. There was a […]
Words for the Week: One. (Big Changes)
Three words to sum up this week. Daunting. Exciting. Overwhelming. A few weeks ago Max and I decided that the sensible thing was for one of us to get another job. There’s nothing wrong, the businesses trundle along nicely enough, employ us and someone else and keep a goodly number of customers happy. But the […]
Level 4 for Fran.
Keeping up with the family records for posterity; Fran did Level 4 in gymnastics for the first time the other week. She did really well, a clean enough round bar two muppetty falls on beam. One was hilarious (she’s never going to forget it) and cost her 2nd overall and if she hadn’t fallen the […]
Sponsored Video: Give a Child a Breakfast.
When the volume goes up at home and suddenly there are tears and wailing, I always know exactly how to fix it. I think pretty much every mother does. There is something about hunger, particularly in very small people, that ramps up the hysteria at almost breakneck speed. After years of home educating I know […]
Sponsored Video: Stand Up For Good Snacks
The endless shame of toddler parenting for me is, yet again, how far I fail in the food department. 5th time round, I still have a child who has hit age 2 with the palate of an adult and then suddenly regressed until nothing but white processed bread will do. Natural weaning, home made or […]
Simple Things
We had 3 days apart this week, Bene and I. It was too long really, though I had a marvellous time. And he was fine. This morning was perfect, him waking up to find me in the bed I wasn’t in when he fell asleep last night. There was pure delight in his eyes. It […]
It's an emergency! Unexpected Expenses.
Like plenty of families in this day and age, we are no strangers to the irritating habit money has of going out faster than it comes in. With 5 children to buy for – and an increasingly aging car that is beginning to require hospitalisation for things like “a stuck sensor… that will be £600, […]
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