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 …
The cushion covers and throws on the sofas get washed much more often (or, actually, for the first time ever). Unfortunately, though, she doesn’t sit on them all, so some cushions look much cleaner than others. I’m tempted to pick her up and move her when she’s watching TV and …
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 …
We ran out of nappies. Had one for last night – phew! But none whatsoever after that. So R has been forced to go out with just knickers (and tights, trousers, T-shirt, vest, shoes and coat, of course) on, along with a bag full of changes of clothes and the …
Head on over to Alpha Mummy for the latest British Mummy (and Daddy) Bloggers Carnival. The last one of these was what persuaded me to finally dip my toes into the Mummy Blogging waters and is also where I discovered many of the blogs on my blog roll. I have …
One of the perils of working from home, especially when you both do so, is losing your weekends. Since becoming parents we have, generally, become much better at trying to make sure we get some family time at the weekends. However, every now and then deadlines are looming, hours have …
For the last two nights, Rosemary has gone to sleep almost immediately after I left the room.
