The highlight of the holidaying year for the girls is always Christmas camp. Last year Fran, Amelie and I missed it and the year before trying to negotiate a holiday filled with babies and toddlers that I had expected to take Freddie to was pure hell. This year (last year, I'm so behind!) was lovely. […]
The last day of the holidays
Today was a lovely day. In the morning we scuffled around, keeping each other company and gaming, chattering, eating breakfast, playing with Bene. I did some work, fed a boy, changed a nappy, talked to someone about prejudice and tolerance. We listened to Wee Free Men in snatches, which should be compulsory listening and Fran […]
Our Christmas.
Apparently I say to my friends every year that I’ve been more frugal this Christmas. And I never have been 🙂 Well, this year I wasn’t especially frugal in £’s but in present terms we went more minimalist. There weren’t really toys this year, only Josie and Bene got anything toy like at all; everyone […]
Small pleasures.
I’m sat up, alone, at midnight with a Baileys and my crochet and Wee Free Men to listen to and the Christmas lights to look at. I can be grateful and sad and optimistic and regretful – simultaneously – and not mind the company of any of those thoughts. It’s as good a place to […]
Coming around again.
Dear Bene, You are 11 months old. So close to a year. What I wouldn't have given to know you'd make it to the last day of the year. Even now saying that a day early feels like a risk. I've tried very hard not to make your first year about your brother. I think […]
It's Christmas time.
Merry Christmas. May there be joy and love and friendship and laughter and may the hearts of those missing the ones they love, find some peace this year.
It's not the end of the world, but…
While half the world was being stupid about some calendar that ran out of space today, we were facing something a bit different. Today was Maddy's endocrinologist appointment to discuss her enlarged thyroid. Yesterday we had blood results that told us that she had reasonably significant levels of antibodies in her blood, indicating that her […]
Review: Binatone KidzStar eReader
Given my high level gadget adoration status (so long as it isn't android, I'm yet to be convinced on those) it's hardly surprising that the girls are similar. This years christmas list comprises almost entirely gadgets… And if I had my way I'd be replacing my Kindle to a paperwhite (though I'm holding out for […]
A story.
Once upon a time there was a woman who had a garden. It was a good garden, bigger than many people could ever hope for, filled with beautiful flowers. None of the flowers were perfect, none of them were necessarily the rarest or most dazzling flowers in the world but it was hers and she […]
Sad
My blogging mojo is all gone, though it might be here if there was any time between housework and educating and holiday and taxi driving pantomime dancers around. And everyone else's christmas, which they remembered nearly as late as I did and so corresponding quantities of panic have been detected in those ordering from our […]
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