You may or may not have noticed that we’ve just relaunched our CraftMerrily website (home of Hama Beads and Fimo and currently Loom Bands too) in a brand new sparkly design. It has taken months of our time as we’ve done it all ourselves but has gradually turned into something I’m pleased with. Upgrading e-commerce […]
Me time? When you from Skid Row, there ain't no such thing.
All together now… “Alarm goes off at seven… and you start up town…” Ahem. Last year Max and I gave up watching TV in the evenings. We were suffering from the “87 channels and nothing to watch” syndrome and our internet is so slow that downloading things isn’t an option. Streaming from free online services […]
The boy, the bed & the bedroom.
After 2.5 years, give it take the few cot months before the chest infections, this happened at nap time today. He’s co slept almost his whole life he naps on a mat at nursery but here he feeds to sleep and sleeps in our bed. Mostly he sleeps through if he has daddy for company; […]
Connecting. They were children.
Parenthood is a funny old thing. (Understatement.) It never settles in one place, I find. Perhaps that is having lots of them or perhaps it isn’t. One thing I can’t know is how it would feel to have not had lots of children. When Fran was little I used to stare at her as she […]
To our eldest girl on her 16th birthday.
You are 16. Old enough to marry. Sensible enough not to. I shopped for you yesterday, finding time for trinkets on the London streets. I breathed down tears once or twice as I bought the odd mixture of toy and tinsel that befits you. Grown up. Still a girl. Young woman. Our baby. If I […]
Surfacing
April has been about being quiet for me; there was not enough time to think but there was a very enjoyable amount of time spent with my children as they hunkered down together through an all too short Easter holiday. Fran revised (oh my goodness, the waste of youth that is GCSE revision 🙁 ) […]
Making the best of it.
So far the weather has always been kind to us in Freddie’s birthday. It feels like a blessing, of sorts, though I know it can’t be really. We’ve always been able to have an outside sort of day. This year was a happy day, in the circumstances. I find it increasingly strange that it can […]
Saturday
It’s been such a busy few weeks; gcse’s looming, 2 shows to get the kids through, all the school upheaval, trying to launch a new website (STILL trying to do that) and a cello exam, plus all the ordinary gym things. If I get to sit down at all, it seems to be about 10.30pm. […]
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Today was a ‘motherhood’ day. Ups and downs. Growling as I stomped around the house looking for a very lost kindle which eventually turned out to be hidden (in a very toddler manner) behind the radiator that is behind the sofa, growling more as I encountered the bedrooms of my daughters. That’s life. Mess, missing […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #10: Speech Apathy
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 […]
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