This is what happens when you are doing toddlers for the 5th time. The girls would have got a tuff spot. Bene gets a cat litter tray and a bag of soup beans. I really wanted to be be good at toddler stuff this time round. I was going to be all messy play and […]
Saying his name.
The thing about grief is… The thing about grief… The thing is… It’s never over. That’s old, an old and hardly illuminating observation. Some days I’m almost there. Some days I’m in hiding. Some days I find I’ve absorbed the status quo so well that I almost believe that I, like everyone else in this […]
Busy times.
The summer holidays are nearly over and before you know it, they’ll all be back at school again. It feels like it has been a packed holiday. Last week in particular was crammed with ‘stuff’. We went to visit my sister for the day because (aside from wanting to see them!) Fran had to go […]
The results are in.
I have so much to write about, big and small. And so I’m hardly writing at all. But today was a big day. A very big day indeed, the first full public exam results day. Fran and I drove in to town first thing and got there at 9. There followed one of the trickiest […]
The end of (this year's school) days.
We made it. Only just and not without some pain, but we made it. It’s the end of our first full year of schooling all of them. I’m pretty disgruntled about it, as I said before, but there are positives too. None of them want to leave so I suppose that is a positive. They […]
Working Mostly Merrily
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 […]
Little Girl.
She’s been my baby for so long. She’s been a closed book for so long. She’s been chubby and silent and suddenly she is lithe, determined, quietly confident, elegant and clever and clearly, most remarkably, beautiful. She captures another side of my family entirely; she alone looks almost exactly like my youngest girl cousin, from […]
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; […]
Out of date.
Max and the girls had a model kit out at the weekend. It’s been in the garage, half made, for I don’t know how long, wrapped in newspaper, congealing paints, glue that has had long enough to go off and not stick properly. A relic of a different time. I couldn’t have told you when […]
Peacock Rio Carnival Mask.
There isn’t much in the way of football mania here and goodness knows, there is no longer much in the way of education going on. I’ve thrown off the fun of crafting our way through knowledge for the misery of uncovering the threadbare patches in topics needed for imminent GCSEs and trying to patch them […]
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