Did you miss me? It has been a quiet year, given the time spent indoors, due to lockdowns. Getting to the end of our second year participating in a major historical event, I'm tired but aren't we all? I have a little more reason to be tired however, having had a heart attack in July.... Continue Reading →
Tired.
Have you ever have one of those days at home with the kids, where they are just absolute terrors, and they just keep getting into mischief. Just one thing after the other, on a loop. You find yourself counting the hours till the Husband comes home, hours, minutes, seconds. Someone to tag in and take... Continue Reading →
Gotta go…. fight club.
Here we are half way through the school holidays, and lordy me haven't the fights started. It doesn't help that it has turned quite cold outside, and the kids being perpetual bags of snot are not able to go out and play. Thomas is demanding to watch the same dvd on a loop, Lucy is forcing... Continue Reading →
It’s official. My children have robbed me of my sanity.
Every morning so far this holidays I've been woken up to the sounds of children fighting, actually more than just fighting - full on screaming, toy boxes being tipped over, fridge stripped of food (they break every lock I've bought), Georgie screeching at whoever has dared touch something she is holding (glass cracking screech), Lucy voicing... Continue Reading →
Mondays…
Like a certain fat orange cat, I'm not a fan of Mondays. Today proved to be no exception. I thought I was all over it, I really did. On Sunday night I was ever such a good mummy, and I got all their uniforms ready and laid out to put on. I went through the... Continue Reading →
Tiredness = Tantrums, from Mummy!
For the last four weeks Henry has been getting up at around 3 to 4am. Oh the joy. While I know I can survive without sleep, the cracks are starting to show and not only as crow's-feet. My question is, how does Henry manage it? As I type the little bugger is dancing around behind... Continue Reading →
It’s not supposed to be like this.
Somebody said something to me recently which really upset me. It was an observation that I know was not meant in any way to be hurtful, in fact the person that said it probably really believes in the statement - and it is a statement that has been said to me more than a few... Continue Reading →