There are photos of a hot sunny day in 2000/2001 in our photo albums (yes, that’s right, back in the days when photos were PAPER) of our eldest 2 and my brother on a day at Twycross. Back then it needed 3 adults to manage 2 children and Rich counted close enough 😉 I remember […]
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 […]
Nearly 3.
The boy will be 3 next week. Hard to believe that the bump that felt like it would never be born, who became Marmite and who was that terrifying, ever sleeping, jaundiced scrap of a baby for so long, is now a wild, walking, talking, dustbin lorry loving little boy. My Timehop from a year […]
Family Time.
We are all counting down to the return to school with dread; it has been such a joyful 2 weeks of family time and we don’t want it to end. At least 3/4 of the girls would happily not go back to school and I’m fighting the urge to agree to it. It used to […]
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 […]
It comes but once a year.
And I have to say, thank goodness! After 16 years of buying gifts for a large family of children, I am ALL OUT of inspiration. I have to say, that it is the gift element that kind of spoils Xmas for me. Of course, I know we rely on it and we’d be pretty stuffed […]
The ringing bell.
He’ll never grow out of Christmas, The bells will always ring, And if there are angels anywhere, It’s them who he’ll hear sing. They say that he’s a star now, I wanted to show him the moon, To hear the gleeful chatter Of the boy who went too soon. I don’t believe in heaven, But […]
Making Christmas.
I don’t really want Christmas this year. Not in the same way that the last 4 Christmases have been their own tiny version of hell (I can’t believe this is our 5th Christmas without Freddie any more than I can believe it 3rd Christmas with Bene) but in a glum way, a dissatisfied with what […]
Can the sofa get your sporty motivation back?
Apparently it can. My Netflix challenge this month was to find a way to make couple time, which is… in the run up to Xmas with 5 kids, a toy shop and a rugby and gymnastics club to take an active part in running… something of a challenge. We have, however, managed to work our […]
The moany one.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this blog and what it is still okay to say on it. I was thinking today about voice and lost mojo and keeping up appearances and stiff upper lips and not going on about stuff and being brave and life goes on ish and how, because the girls […]
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