T is nearly nine months now and I hadn’t realised how quickly the time had gone until I got the ‘when are you coming back?’ letter from my boss. My heart sank a little because I can’t quite imagine leaving him at nursery yet but unless we all stop eating or win the lottery we can’t […]
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This week baby I promise… Week 2
Have you taken part in Mum of One’s yet? ‘This week baby I promise…’ asks us to come clean about one of our parenting imperfections and say what we’ll try to do better this week. So here’s mine: This week baby I promise… to let you and your brother play for longer in the bath rather than […]
Listography – What we did this summer
For Listography this week Kate is asking for a quick run down of how we’ve amused ourselves this summer. We’ve had a fairly quiet summer mainly because me being on maternity leave means we’re skint but here are some highlights: 1 E’s Birthday This was E’s third birthday but first proper party. He’s a massive Fireman Sam […]
Flashback Friday – 5 Years On
I haven’t contributed to Karin’s Flashback Friday for a while. Having E at home as well as the baby during the holidays doesn’t leave much time for reflection as you can probably tell from the brevity of my blog posts over the last few weeks. Today, however, is a bit different. Today demands at least a […]
No Absence of Role Models Here
There’s been lots of discussion since the recent riots about the impact of the lack of positive male role models on young boys. I have a niggling suspicion that if you are the kind of dad who would choose to be absent you probably wouldn’t have been much of a role model anyway and I can point […]
Listography – 5 Lessons I Learnt From My Parents
What a great listography topic from Kate at Kate Takes 5 this week. Things we learnt from our parents. Where to start? Well, of course there’s all the usual swimming, reading, bike riding and then how about what to do when your cat is in labour, how to make the perfect G&T or how to adjust […]