“I hear sum-der, I hear sum-der Hark don’t you, hark don’t you? Pretty pretty raindrops, pretty pretty raindrops I’m wet through, so wet through” My daughter Jessica’s version of “I hear thunder” was top of the toddler charts for much for the summer despite mostly having good weather. She wasn’t remotely bothered by the few… Read More
It is just after five in the morning As you awake to the baby’s loud cries The hours of sleep you could count on one hand And it’s so hard just to open your eyes Seven o’clock in the morning What little patience you had wearing thin The children are crying and squabbling over a… Read More
This week has mostly seen me trying to find the right: It’s been quite an exhausting week in many ways especially as hubby has been working crazy hours and has barely been home other than to grab a few short hours of sleep before heading back to work again. September is always a bit of… Read More
This week’s prompt asks the question: ‘Are women better parents than men?’ Someone (I suspect it was a man) once said that when you’re a child you learn the difference between right and wrong and when you get married you learn the difference between right and ‘correct’. Hubby and I laugh over this, but there… Read More
It’s been quite a mixed week this week, and so my word of the week is: Just a big mixture of the little moments that make up the kaleidoscope of life as a parent. We’ve had: Exasperating moments – the night when both girls decided to resist sleep at bedtime for over three hours… Read More
1) The Ladies Singing Their Song – Baby the Musical “Strangers acting like they’ve always known me They poke me, they stroke me, they treat me like they own me.” This song is all about how when you’re pregnant, you suddenly become public property and complete strangers seem to think it’s totally acceptable to touch… Read More
03:30 – Sophie wakes. Feed Sophie to try and get her back to sleep 04:00 – Sophie finishes feed. Put in cot and return to minuscule space left in bed as Jessica is in with us, having woken up as we were going to bed last night and not wanted to settle back down in… Read More