I saw you this morning. I was walking home after taking Rosemary to school and handing Eleanor over to Mama. It was a lovely spring day and, though cold, I was feeling good and ready to face the world – or at least the computer. Then I glanced up toward …
It was half-term recently. Rosemary had a great week, fitting in an overnight stay with her Granny (my mum), a visit of a few days from her Grandma (Chris’ mum), a daytrip to Bristol to visit their aquarium, a morning swimming with her dad, Grandma and sister, an afternoon at …
So, I’m not the only one who does this am I? Looks at and listens to their children and thinks ‘Oh. My. God. They are amazing. So clever. So bright. So funny. So loving. So beautiful…’? You do that too, don’t you? Eleanor is at that stage. The one where …
I don’t normally rant about celebrities. To be honest, I don’t normally take that much notice of celebrities, except a select few authors and BtVS and Angel alumni. But I just saw this article on the BBC* about some comments Joanna Lumley has made about children today. I was assuming …
Somehow, without planning it that way, we had ended up with me looking after the girls all day Saturday on most weekends. Chris takes Rosemary swimming on a Sunday and I look after Eleanor while they’re out (though she often sleeps most of that time) and then I look after …
(I can’t believe I had to go back to the month Eleanor was born to find a breastfeeding picture. I suppose people don’t just go around taking snaps of me with my boobs out, but still, I spent enough of my time doing it, you’d think there could be more …
Rosemary is four years old. She’s already asking if she can have her ears pierced and to wear make-up. We’ve always said that she won’t get her ears pierced until she’s 16, but she can have clip-ons when she’s 5. And she can’t have lipstick until she’s at least 10. …
A while ago, this little questionnaire was doing the rounds (or variations on it, at least). So, I thought I’d see what Rosemary thought of us now, a year and a half down the road. What do you think about Mummy? What is something Mummy always says to you? Go …
Before I was a mum, and when Rosemary was younger, I always used to marvel at parents who sent their children out to numerous after-school activities. I thought it must be exhausting for them – and for the children, too. I swore (you know, in the same way you swear …
Living room > Book corner Yes, this is getting ridiculous, sorry, however, the toy storage items from Vertbaudet won’t be here for a couple of weeks, so I’ve done the other corner of the room and this post will be all about that – the book corner*. I had booked …
