Today, I will be staying away from home without R. For some reason, this feels like a big moment. A milestone, if you will. It’s not as though we haven’t spent nights apart before; she quite often stays over at my mum’s so we can have a night out, or …
Today, I have mostly been sorting out finances. Juggling money in order to pay the taxman. Phoning credit card companies and asking them what interest rate deals they would like to offer me to dissuade me from transferring all my money *cough*debt*cough* to another card. Telling them that, no, I …
Today, I have mostly been sorting out finances. Juggling money in order to pay the taxman. Phoning credit card companies and asking them what interest rate deals they would like to offer me to dissuade me from transferring all my money *cough*debt*cough* to another card. Telling them that, no, I …
I believe I have stumbled across a number of truths to add to any research being done into man flu. It’s not actually man flu, it’s non-mum flu Before I was a mum, I would be ill for days. I would lay up in bed with DVDs, books and magazines …
I got sent a link to this household economy calculator today. It’s been created by Cornhill Direct (insurance company) and gives you an idea of what the (household) work you and other people in your house do is worth in monetary terms. It also gives you percentages to show who …
Sometimes I hate Tuesday mornings. When the place is a mess and I’m trying to keep R amused (sticking her in front of the TV) while sorting it out and C is having fun working upstairs. Or I plan lots of stimulating activities (baking, painting, crafting…) and they take too …
R has recently developed a liking for salad. This makes me ridiculously happy. Much happier than her adoration of all things ice-cream related makes me sad or guilty. It is especially ridiculous because she is actually a pretty healthy eater, anyway, and has been eating most of the constituent parts …
As parents of a child in the midst of her third year (or, as it’s more commonly described, the terrible twos), we have developed a number of methods of persuading, bribing, scaring and tricking R into doing what we want or need her to do. None of them, I’m sure, …
Ever since my first trip to a post-natal class, I have felt that making friends with other mums is like dating. You have to work out if they are suited to you – are you going to argue about public versus private education, vaccinations, TV allowances? Do you have anything …
