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The Voice.

November 25, 2012 by

I have been a very flawed parent over the years, busy, impatient, a little too wrapped in my own agenda, tired, easily annoyed. Three things have altered that until the current, not too bad model emerged; the endless companionship, support and influence of my husband Max, who is the calm ordered opposite of my flighty […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life Tagged With: babies are people, breastfeeding, bringing up baby, bsbies fter loss, co-sleeping, litening to your baby, motherhood, no-cry sleep solutions, parenthood

That moment.

November 21, 2012 by

When programmes celebrating the past decades come up on television, the things that make me ooh and aah are often the brand names on the shop shelves of bygone shops; products in packaging once so familiar, which reprise in more modern form in our cupboards now. Custard powder packets, golden syrup, soaps and cleaning products, […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, The Girls Tagged With: brands, Lil-lets, menstruation, periods, pubert, tampons, teen pads

Journeys End.

October 23, 2012 by

On Friday I will be decommissioned, put out of action, consigned to the reproductive scrap heap, put out to grass. My tubes will be corked and my fertility stoppered and there will be no more babies for me. I'm 38, I have had 6 children, been pregnant more times than a body needs to be […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Grief, Pregnancy After Loss, Trying to Conceive Tagged With: birth, birth after infant loss, family complete, pregnancy after baby loss, pregnancy after neonatal death, sad, sterilisation, trying to conceive

It's just what you do.

September 3, 2012 by

I happened upon a post on Glow that touched the nerve of how I felt this weekend. This bit in particular, written by Kate. “Christ, but some days I feel completely insane with the fucking rage. Then I go to sleep. Then I get up again, and shower, and scramble eggs, and try again. Because […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Freddie

The summer is gone before it began.

August 21, 2012 by

Suddenly there is only 10 days left before my big girl is back in school. Oh, how I wish she had long private school holidays like I had. We’ve loved having the time together, the 7 of us. Holiday has really brought home how much I miss her in the house. Without her here every […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Fran, Maddy, Music, Trips Out Tagged With: Acorn International, Dartmoor weather, growing up, guitar grade 1, music lessons

Baby mine.

July 30, 2012 by

Bene, now you are six months old. Not today, because life has gone fast and I missed the exact date, though I noticed. It’s good to have been too busy, too happy, too relaxed to feel I had to write exactly on the day. You are six months. Half. Year. A while new life. A […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Letters to Bene Tagged With: baby development, baby in paddling pool, Letters to Bene, rolling baby, sitting baby, six month old baby

Coming up for air. Breastfeeding amendments.

June 24, 2012 by

A few days ago I admitted defeat over exclusive breast feeding. It hasn’t really worked for Bene and I all that well; he has gained weight brilliantly (he’s over 16lbs at just short of five months, which given he was 5 1/2 lbs at one point is quite impressive) and he sleeps all night which […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Fimo Models, Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: 5 months, breast feeding, hungry baby, mixed feeding, weaning, weaning to solids

Are we lucky or damn near perfect? Teenager rearing.

June 22, 2012 by

I reckon this post will come back to bite me on the posterior. I can nearly guarantee when in fact; I reckon I have just under 2 years before I’m holding my head in my hands and wailing ‘WHAT was I thinking?’ If it happens sooner than that, it is conclusive proof of that unwritten […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Fran, Uncategorized Tagged With: 50's family life, Cherie Blair, family law solicitors, family life, funny teenagers, parenting, parenting teens, SNORT at Cherie Blaire, teenagers, The House the Fifties Built, yummy mummies

I have achieved nothing for a week.

June 1, 2012 by

All this boy does is eat…. Eat… Eat! So humour me and be impressed by these photos in lieu of the many things I would like to say… Then vote for me in the MADs (button on the right!) and say hello on the DKL blog so they think I’m doing my job 🙂 How […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Benedict Tagged With: felt pictures, home educating, life after having a baby, no time to do anything, surviving

Things I learned this week.

May 27, 2012 by

In no particular order other than for dramatic and needy, pimping effect. Adults don’t always get nits from their children. Sometimes they get them from somewhere else and that’s actually worse. I can’t tell you how much I hate not being able to roll my eyes and blame it on a small girl. If your […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Thinking Tagged With: bad back, being terrified, Blog redirects, meningitis, Nits, non-blanching spots, sick children after losing a child, viruses with weird symptoms

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