July 2009

The school run is bad for your health

I sometimes get to lie in until 8am. I have an unhurried (if interrupted) coffee. There is no shouting (or maybe not as much). No searching for last-minute lost uniform, no mad-dash to brush teeth/make lunches/finish homework. Upstairs the baby snoozes as late as he likes. He has a slow, quiet breakfast, long after the [...]

What I have said to my eldest three children four times EACH this evening:

Night, night (again). I love you lots, BUT I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN THIS EVENING.

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone

So the summer vacation is upon our household, the children are already driving me crazy and I feel slightly, um, unprepared. In fact the word unprepared could basically sum up my days at the moment. I cannot invite anyone around because of the mess, mostly in the kitchen. This is not because I am a [...]

Return

A holiday in Devon last week was like holidaying in the tropics. And no awful plane journey. We managed to fit in beaches, swimming, soft play, sightseeing, good food, way too many ice-creams (can’t fit in my pre-pregnancy jeans I had just got back into before we went away) and adventure parks. We were busy! [...]