I said this last week (to Who’s the Mummy, as it happens), to explain why I never blog any more. And, to be fair (to coin an overused phrase favourite of of of my teens, the run up to Xmas felt fairly miserable, for not even the right reason of our shops being nice and […]
Big Changes.
I’ve thought of myself as a home educator for years, even recently when the kids were in and out of school, though “home educator at heart” is, probably quite rightly, sniffed at by pure home educators. But it was how I felt, my life has been kid centric, both family and educational provision, for 18 […]
What’s not to like? #NoLikesNeeded
If I’m honest, there aren’t many bits of my life I look back and and absolutely think “I wish I could go back to then” and relive it all over and one stage I shrugged off with delight was my teenage years. Being chubby, plain, short and socially awkward teen in a school full of […]
What’s in a name?
Choosing baby names is tricky; it needs to appeal to you, you might want it not to be too popular (I speak as the temporary keeper and guide of one of the oldest Amelie’s in the country!) and give off the right vibe for the child you hope they will grow up into. It needs […]
Fifth Birthday
We had a good day. There is always a conscious group effort to be happy in his birthday, not sad. What would be the point, after all? We went back to Anglesey Anney this year. The weather had threatened to be really awful, so we didn’t make big plans and then Josie came down […]
Sleeping like a baby.
Have had a lot of opportunity to reflect on parenting back when I had Fran compared to parenting Bene now lately. I’ve had children across three different decades and two different centuries – not only does that sound dramatic, but it really is. When I had Fran there were only really videos to watch (and […]
Parenting before the internet #BootsBaby125Years
Hello you. I must look so polished these days, from the outside. I’m pretty practiced at parenting now. I haven’t forgotten you. Those early days. Packing a tiny, still be-lip-stitched baby girl into a pram, back in the days when navigating the front step seemed such a hurdle, never mind the minefield of an unexpectedly […]
Sponsored Post: Working Mum?
Long term readers (are you still there?!?!) will know I’ve been an unconventional working mum for a long time. I’ve always been at least partly at home with my children and fitted working in around them – or sometimes the other way round. I was asked to write about a course that aims to help […]
16 years of baby bathtime #voiceofmums
Like many parenting moments, you never realise that ‘this’ is the last time you’ll bath one of them. One minute they are shrieking for you to save them from the evils of ‘shampoo eye’ while you moan at them for still not being able to run (or partake of) a bath without major parental involvement […]
A trip to Narnia.
We’ve not had snow here in our town. The line of settling snow stopped 10 miles above us and we only got the tease of flakes that didn’t stay. It isn’t quite winter without snow; last year never felt right because it never even seemed to get cold. Today I cashed one of my family […]
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