My older son lets his imagination loose at bedtime and often calls us back in to tell us what he has seen or heard in the dark. Once he said…
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Tag: life with small children
I’ve not been feeling in brilliant health lately. Truthfully, I feel old – exercise is taxing, I get out of breath, I always feel tired and maintaining a non-slouching posture…
My new strategy of abandoning books that aren’t doing it for me is having the desired effect – reading more. I’m still reading at a pace that would have shocked…
I’ve had a bit of a bittersweet realisation over the summer with the difficulty in finding a house to buy. I think London and I have grown apart. There are…
We have hit some kind of golden days with the two little boys. I wouldn’t say they’re easy to look after, but it’s a day-and-night situation to about two years…
We had some ambitious weekend plans – on Saturday we were going to spend most of the day at a kid birthday party our friends were hosting on the other…
The headings are inspired by our failed house survey, where the surveyor explained that he usually orders his remarks ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’, but in our case…
I got unjustifiably angry with the three-year-old yesterday morning and have some reflections. The situation arose from the two of us following separate but equally unmovable agendas – I, getting…
The boys have continued their tag-teaming efforts to keep us up at night: when it’s not one of them screaming his head off it’s the other. I can’t remember when…
Some funny conversations with the 3-year-old: He: Äiti, I have a game for you!Me: Oh really, what is it?He: I don’t know. It might be a clock? Cal: Okay, it’s…