This is how I like my children… In the garden, being noisy, having fun, not connected to app or screen or anything much. It seems a pretty perfect way to be. Bene, like his biggest sister was, is in his element when he’s being physically boisterous. He’s all about body at the moment, has been […]
Calm among storms.
The run up to Christmas is always hectic here, it comes with the toy shop ownership territory. We looked forward to the Xmas break but for the very best of reasons, it was never going to be. Christmas, visitors, a wedding, decorating – it all added up to a holiday that passed by very quickly […]
Shape Up & Ship Out
Last year I spent a lot of time decluttering and getting rid of junk that had accumulated in the house. It’s made a huge difference, allowing us to focus done creativity on changing the house for the better and actually spend some time going nice things. Inevitably, it needs redoing and with this year looming […]
The one where I fail at being a frugal Christmas Shopper. Again.
I’ve been avoiding writing this and it has taken me a while to work out why but I have now. The biggest reason is that I feel guilty that we had a nice Christmas Day. When I think back to the last 3, suffused with guilt and grief in equal measure and topped and tailed […]
Let Down.
When there are a lot of the children in the house, a lot of needs to be met, meals to cook, places to be, abilities to nurture and worries to ease, there is normally something that gives at each stage. Sometimes a hobby goes, or a chink of time together, or a relationship falters a […]
Mostly… nice.
I’ve craved a year that could be called ‘mostly nice’ for the last few years. It’s been a while. Mostly painful, mostly dreadful, mostly despairing, mostly frightening, mostly stressful – those are the ways to describe the years from about 2006 onwards. From torrid times at home, to stressfully trying to maintain a business and […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #8: Messy Play
I’ll let you into a secret. I hate messy play. I hate sticking stuff with little kids who get bored quickly. I hate painting that is mostly gloop and soggy paper. I HATE setting up stuff that they do for a while, chuck everywhere and then I have to clear up. It may be partly […]
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 […]
Health warning: large families of active kids are a bad idea.
I was trying to explain our schedule of life earlier on (twice in two days actually, as you do) and it struck me that it might be an interesting moment to write out how our week pans out at this point in time. I’ve noticed that I blog less often now, which relates less to […]
Bene made some cakes. Which is not the whole blog post.
When I wanted another baby, part of it was that I so wanted to be able to do better at all the things I felt I had failed to do well with the girls; I was too busy, 4 children in 6 years rather took its toll, there wasn’t enough time, I was tired etc […]
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