parenting

I like change but I like routine more

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I am trying hard only to blog positive stuff as much as possible at the moment. So my long absence reflects a crappy last few weeks. We have been on the road visiting family in difficult circumstances, but we made the most of the trip and tried to make it fun for the children and [...]

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Voices of motherhood

Last year I received an email so hateful that I felt sick for weeks. It was an email criticising that fact that I wrote about my son and about his illness on my blog, how I wrote about parenting instead of actually parenting and how I was doing that for money and pageviews and links [...]

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The colour of dreams

Here is one of my favourite photos of the field behind our house, awash with summertime poppies. For a few weeks they turn the fields of green rapeseed or wheat into something entrancing. On the day I took this, Harry spent a good part of the afternoon wandering back and forth through the field, totally [...]

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In my shoes

Today I’m very honoured to welcome the lovely DulwichDivorcee, journalist, writer and mother of two, as a guest blogger here as part of Guest Post Day. Please make her feel welcome! They do say you can never understand anyone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Well, I find myself completely daunted by the [...]

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Where does my time go?

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I held you, mottled pink and silicon-fat arms.

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On being more patient

Luckily, Lent – and therefore my efforts to give up being impatient – begins on Ash Wednesday because yesterday was Trying. That is the most patient word I can think of to describe it. First, number three son -  already a tricky boy and already the difficult age of four – was poorly with ongoing [...]

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