Too Many Children

Surviving the summer

There is one week until the summer break and I’m dreading it, incrementally, by the hour. I’m relying on getting together with friends to share the sheer and utter joy that will be Having Our Children At Home All Day. These friends will be chosen carefully for their child-load: parents with at least two preschool [...]

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The chocolate manufacturers should be at my house today

The day after Easter and today I face the delights of the chocolate poo (the toddlers’ not mine). You know, that sticky, in-one-end-straight-out-the-other poop that is the after-effect of toddlers eating too much chocolate. It’s going to be so much fun.

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Getting on with it

My two week babymoon is over. Matthew is back at work, I have accomplished getting two toddlers and an infant up, dressed, fed, nappied, nappied again and then nappied again (the infant is getting through about twenty diapers a day at the moment), got everyone in the car for the school run, come home, vacuumed [...]

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Showdown

Eldest Son, Harry, is going through a phase. He is three and a half. It’s not a good age. Having been – mostly – a very sweet, compliant toddler he has decided to become the toddler from hell. Yesterday was our worst day yet. He got up and decided he didn’t want to get dressed, [...]

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I gave birth to tomcats, not children

Yesterday the boys were so feral that, by the time bedtime rolled around, I barely wanted to kiss them goodnight. Ten minutes later, before I had even finished hanging the laundry, they were both sound asleep. Looking at their little soft warm faces, all I wanted to do was kiss them over and over. Feral, [...]

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My sons are little a$%(£^*

In the last fourteen days or so my sons have gone from being relatively well behaved to, well, what I can only describe here as *&%£$% a$%(£^*. Second Son has decided he is no longer a baby (except at cuddles time) and is giving as good as he gets in the physical-abuse-from-his-brother stakes. Even my [...]

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