Crikey. If there's anyone else out there who's been trying and failing to do the whole work-life-balance thing over the summer holidays, can they please make themselves known? That's right, hold your hands up high: I need to do a full and accurate head count here. The...
I had to pull a whole live tick out of my child's face last week and I'll be having nightmares for months. In fact if you have a phobia of insecty things, or if the idea of minor medical procedures being performed by a non-professional makes you edgy, then it's...
I am writing this whilst leaning back - reasonably heavily - on my cat cushion. Not a feather-stuffed, velvet-covered cat cushion, mind: it's a real life cat cushion. Living and breathing. Slightly more supportive than an inanimate one, if you must know. And the...
It's a brief update this month, because it all feels a bit disjointed to talk about mundane, everyday events when such momentous things are happening in the wider world. I don't know whether anyone really needs to hear about how my three year-old is now "dry at night"...
Oh, the dreaded PMT week has worked its way around again and I am trying to keep a lid on my symptoms, this month, rather than barking rabidly at members of my family and occasionally frothing at the mouth. Last month's PMT, at its peak intensity, saw me pacing up and...
Life update? Oh, nothing much to update you on here. I wasn't even going to bother with a life update this month, seeing as though things have been so uneventful and dull... Wait! Sorry, was off in dreamland again. Trying to find some escape from the world crisis and...
It's life update time again, and rather than bore you with all of the tantrums and CIA-level negotiation we've been having to do around here, with our three and a four year old, I thought we could talk about bedtime routines and (more specifically) some of the crazy...
Well, life is hurtling along and Baby One (four and a half years old) asks for "quiet time" so that she can "write her thoughts in her diary" and Baby Number Two (three today!) has started sleeping in a big boy bed. Now listen; some of you might be thinking that three...
I've had a slightly longer break from work than anticipated; but don't worry, there's nothing sinister afoot. I'm not ill, the dog didn't die, I've not had a drastic facelift that meant I needed to hide behind bandages for a month. I was just absolutely shattered...
I made my first school-related Mum Error the other day when I sent Angelica wearing her uniform on something called a "mufti day". What the hell is mufti day? Granted, I should have probably Googled it instead of dismissing the mufti-themed email - thinking I have no...
Life update time - I know how keenly you all look forward to my inane twaddle about domestic affairs. I feel as though this is almost a bonus ball, too, because last week you had a rant about pumpkins which was a life update in itself. Or at least an update into my...
Ted Talks! As in, he's properly stringing together sentences and chattering away, which means we're at that very weird turning point where you begin to forget that your child was ever a gurgling baby. (Sorry if you thought I was about to announce a Ted Talk coup; not...