Summer Essentials

Today I am taking part in Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop for the first time. Lovely Kat sets up some writing prompts and prompts us to umm…write! So I’ve chosen #5 – List your 7 most favourite summer items. Now before I start let me just add how much I have enjoyed other people’s accounts of [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Rainy Day Play

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Kai-isms

So I think I’m quite away off being able to make any significant contribution to the fabulous “kids say the funniest things” category of mommy blogging. Which is disappointing really as they are by far my favourite posts to read. But not to be outdone, and in order to try to prove to you that [...]

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C-A-R-N-I-V-A-L!!! What does it spell?? Umm Carnival.

Hello to anyone dropping in via the The Best of the Mommy Blogger Carnival today. It’s my first time contributing – it’s all so exciting! So…make yourself comfy! Just move that pile of crap from that chair and, oops wait you’re about to sit on some weetabix. Oh don’t worry that will wash right off. [...]

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Wish List

1. To live somewhere with room for a piano. Sometimes I miss playing so much it hurts. 2. To have a rain-free week so I can make a dent on the enormous mountain of laundry currently creating it’s own weather system in our bathroom (in fact – maybe that’s where all the rain is coming from…). Bear Grylls [...]

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On talking bread people and loosing my mind

Apologies in advance for the rather odd, inevitably disjointed post today. I have had, approximately, 7 hours broken sleep over the last 2 days leaving me in a rather strange, slightly hysterical ohh look there’s a monkey holding my brain type mood.  For those of you that missed my frantic, endless tweeting in attempts to stay sane over [...]

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Why I am not a supermom

First of all I have to ask. Which one of you has cursed my house? Because, as is fast becoming an almost weekly occurance in our family, we have been struck down by the illness fairy once again. And by ‘we’ I mean ‘me’. A throat infection, a low-grade fever and the weak-and-wobblies have meant Kai has once again [...]

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Invasion of the body snatchers

I am in total shock. After our previous experiences with Kai and this sort of thing,  I had been anticipating complete meltdown at Kai’s 12 month booster immunisations today, packing all favourite toys to try and distract him and preparing for many hours of sobbing and cuddles. I even warn the nurse on entering that he has a tendency [...]

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Identity Crisis

Ok, so it’s a normal morning in our house. Kai and I are playing, making all the farm animals kiss each other and the little construction people (yes I know, condoning bestiality to a one year old, good god my immorality knows no bounds – there may even been some bull on bull kissing action going on). We [...]

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Boy Meets Bike. And a lot of other stuff.

Shhh…. I should be doing housework. But after a few halfhearted attempts I have given up. In the aftermath of birthday celebrations my (extremely small) house looks like a Toys ‘R’ Us, complete with the hyperactive child, harried looking parent and the evoctive smell of sick and wee. We have a ball-pool. We have TWO play tents and a [...]

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