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Yes I Am That Lucky

I got home last night to a boy who clapped eyes on me, jumped off the sofa and ran past me into the kitchen shouting "Daddy, Daddy, awa!! AWA!!" Nice to see you too son. What the hell is awa? And why do I have to spend half my life feeling like I'm on the first day of a foreign exchange visit. They are flowers apparently. They had bought me some while they were out shopping. Alfie...
Friday, 31 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Lazy Day

By the start of Bank Holiday Monday the kids and I were desperately in need of some time to kick back. That, and the forecast was for changeable weather and we weren't going down like that twice in one weekend. Oh no sir! So we stayed indoors and did the sort of fun things that I usually see other mums doing online and sigh wistfully while my kids dismember something cute and...
Thursday, 30 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Cold Showers

Alfie has moments when he is just so bloody ... TWO ... I just don't know whether to hug him or throttle him. While this tale isn't exactly his fault, there is a whole "Butterfly Effect" that I lay squarely at his door. After a long day at Keith's show, Alfie decided that his sister looked hot and bothered, ran over to the pushchair and emptied a bottle of water over her head. Esme...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Like Father, Like Son

There is something amazing about watching my husband carrying our baby girl. She clearly agrees - check out her staring into her daddy's eyes.   I'll let you into a little secret ... he's totally cuckoo over her too. Alfie didn't want to be left out of the baby carrying so this morning I dug out the mei tai I made him a little while ago. No sir there is not a thing...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Sling an Ting

Honest to God I am the worst at keeping news quiet when I'm excited. When it's my news I mean, don't break into a cold sweat if you've told me something in confidence, I've probably forgotten it anyway. So I posted a little while ago about how I went over to see the lovely Helen at Monkey Mei Tai to borrow a sling to satisfy Keith and his "we don't need no stinking buggies" attitude. Well...
Sunday, 26 August 2012 Comments: 0
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It Was Acceptable In The 50s

I don’t mark myself out as a feminist. I consider myself one, but the opinions I espouse are based on more than a two dimensional label and being honest, I don’t feel like I am really qualified to make deep or meaningful comment on feminism as a concept. That doesn't mean it doesn't royally boil my piss to see the following being printed in one of the capital’s most iconic...
Saturday, 25 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Received and Understood

I’m sure most of you know we are in the process of applying for our visas to move to New Zealand. It involves more paperwork than you can imagine. Mountains of the stuff, all in triplicate with the supporting cast of Ben Hurr NOT STAPLED behind it and photos stapled in the TOP RIGHT CORNER written in BLACK PEN and BLOCK CAPITALS. Tedium thy name is New Zealand Immigration. All...
Friday, 24 August 2012 Comments: 0
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The Beginner's Guide to Emmie Expressions - Utter Joy

Unlike her brother, Emmie isn’t a complete camera ‘ho which makes it really hard to capture any of her expressions except the one I lovingly refer to as “the landed fish”. That’s one of the reasons I love this photo so much because it’s a smile we never manage to capture but are treated to so often. Like this morning: As is her custom, Emmie furtled around in bed...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012 Comments: 0
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He Gets Me On A Technicality EVERY TIME

My son will one day become a lawyer. While we have been away a lot recently, it has shined a new light on Alfie. It is not a flattering light, more the sort they used to have in seedy nightclubs that made your teeth glow and your shoulders look like you walked there through a blizzard. I believe these lights were sponsored by the Methodist Church to prevent any kind of physical...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Pregnancy: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

I wrote a few years ago about the shocking news that having a baby had finally made me see the exercising light, and it is even more shocking that 3 years on, I’m still going strong – not literally, I’m not Forrest Gump - I have become the kind of person that my 20 something self would beat mercilessly, except the 20 something me would still be in bed nursing a hangover. When...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 Comments: 0
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They're Clichés for a Reason

We spent the last few days with the lovely Fergusons celebrating Joe's birthday and I captured a few of the moments when you remember that amongst boys, some instincts are constant. Observe. Cake does not require baking, it requires hunting. The best part of making a cake is stealing the uncooked batter. When boys grow up they just can't resist tyre...
Monday, 13 August 2012 Comments: 0
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The Beginner's Guide to Emmie Expressions - "It Will be So"

I'm so grateful to our friend Claire for capturing this expression.
My little biscuit has an awesome range of facial vocabulary This expression is not so much a challenge, but more a statement of fact.

 A bit like "what goes up, must come down" or "bears shit in the woods" this expression is used to inform you of an irrefutable fact. Normally that you are about to do something; like move out of her way, or pass her a puppy to sacrifice.

 There is no threat behind the look, but also not even the slightest doubt that what she has ordained will come to pass.

 She's a bit like Henry VIII in Mini Boden.
Friday, 10 August 2012 Comments: 0
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What Does the Olympics Mean to You?

It has been an incredible rollercoaster so far hasn't it? I've always enjoyed sport in a fairly detached, objective kind of way. I'm usually the one smiling as other people scream at the television, but this Olympics has sucked me in like a Dyson on a voile. My absolute favourite moment so far is this one, because it demonstrates everything I love most about the Olympics. The...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Words Can Be As Powerful As Fists

Keith and I are flippant about threatening wanton violence on Alfie. It may sometimes come across that we believe what we say but in fact it is our version of scream therapy. I have a bit of a confession to make though, for my part it is also a thinly veiled disguise for the crushing inadequacy I feel as a mother. At the start of this year, Alfie was invited to...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012 Comments: 0
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Check Out My Sympathy Skills!

Keith and I had a chat this morning: After that he mopped …And Alfie decided he hadn't cleaned well enough and emptied a whole bottle of surface cleaner all over the floor.So I posted this to his Facebook page Because I am AWESOME sympathet...
Friday, 3 August 2012 Comments: 0
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DITL - Life in 2012

It's been a long time since I posted a DITL so I thought I would, if for no other reason than to compare and contrast with life before we were four. The day starts with me being rudely awakened. Not by a dustman (90s reference there), or an alarm clock, but by my daughter farting. This is also the way she wakes herself up and is the cue for me to peer over the pillows at a...
Thursday, 2 August 2012 Comments: 4
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