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Baby Bore

Life lessons

October 22, 2009

We’re homeschooling again today as sickness seeps through the house this week. Harry trudges downstairs, sighing. ‘I’ve been learning something, Mummy. When William goes on and on and ON about Lego, I just switch my brain off and forget everything he is saying.’ Yes, son. And we’ll file that homeschool lesson under ‘life’.

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Front door news

November 1, 2008

We miss most of the Trick-or-Treaters as we are out at a party. We get back and Ben, my routine-loving toddler, starts to close all the doors. I watch him make his way to the front door, pulling the loo door open towards him and manoevering himself into the corner of the hallway by the [...]

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All boys here, as if I needed reminding

March 25, 2007

‘Mummy, I got poo in my pants,’ William says accusingly as if it is my fault. ‘What happened?’ I ask absentmindedly, as if I didn’t already know. I’m concentrating on getting breakfast on the table. It takes a great deal of effort to think about anything before my first cup of coffee. ‘DO NOT throw [...]

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Capitalism is alive and well amongst the four year old set

June 18, 2006

It is becoming increasingly clear that I am no longer the sole influence on my eldest son. Whilst I know this is inevitable, not to mention right and proper, I harbour a wish for all my children to grow up to be kind, tolerant and open-minded and therefore I preach, and of course always practice, [...]

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Where did my sweet baby go?

April 14, 2006

Harry, my four year old who is DEFINITELY ready for big school, to younger brother William: ‘I’m going to tell you a story Bubby. Once upon a time there were two little boys called William and Ben and one day they were playing in the field and they went on to the train track and [...]

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How to shame me into realising I don’t clean often enough

November 17, 2005

Harry, my astute three year old, on returning from pre-school: “Mummy, it’s all so brand new in here. What happened?” (I vacuumed.)

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Hairy scary

November 6, 2005

It’s pretty difficult reaching my legs to keep them smooth and hair-free at this stage of the pregnancy. Still, it was only when my son pushed his Thomas the Tank Engine up my trousers (pants) and then paused, slowly lifting the material so it rested above my knee and said with some uncertainty “Mummy, is [...]

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A busy day ahead

July 26, 2005

Harry, my precocious three and a half year old: “Mummy, what we having for breakfast today?” (See, I may be sick, but I still do variety in the food department, even at breakfast) Me: “Porridge.” Harry: “Oh good, I’m going to need that today.”

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