We did make our first-ever offer on a house. In the office, we were talking about the alarming way living costs are going up – my personal gauge for this…
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Tag: life with small children
Whenever I stay with my mother I end up drinking a lot more coffee than I do at home, as she is an enabler. Travelling yesterday, I didn’t have much…
A little while ago I poured some feelings of resentment and generalised anger about having small children on an unsuspecting friend. Now that friend has sent me a new book:…
There must be a good bunch of people actively manifesting heatwaves in London, because we’re getting another one this week. This time we’re staying on the right side of 40°C,…
We went on a family outing to Canary Wharf on the weekend, to check out The Docklands Museum. It ranks in the Top 3 of Worst Family Outings ever. A…
This summer we’re doing split family holidays – the toddler gets a holiday to ancestral lands with each parent and the baby gets no holidays. It’s just the tip of…
The baby started nursery this week, but so far it’s mostly an honourary position, seeing as he immediately fell ill and has been home for two days recuperating. Still, the…
Both boys are now in nursery. Phew. I’m hoping this will mean we will all be a bit more pleased to see each other in the evenings – ‘absence makes…
This time last year I bought a 5-year-diary on a whim. I thought it was good timing – the baby was about to be born, so if I kept it up I would have a record of the first five years of his or her life, as well as the toddler’s early years.
I like that quote so frequently repeated by productivity gurus: The moment one definitely commits oneself, Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do,…