Things I’ve learned from my children. To get started riding a bike, lean over to the side that you don’t kick with at football and push down on the pedal with your kicking leg. Boy Two has decided that the best thing in the world will be a bike ride with his mother. His mother […]
Cheap things to help you survive the first years
Butterflies, speaking Scots and the pouch of doom
Things I’ve learned from my children today. Butterflies taste with their feet. Boy Two sneaked into bed with me at stupid o’clock this morning. “Mum I’m going to tell you something you don’t already know.” I quite often ask the boys to tell me something I don’t know in an attempt to get them talking. […]
mending, baby-led weaning and The Bridge to Terabithia
Things I’ve learned from my children today The thought is definitely the important thing. Putting the clean dishes away, two mugs skittered out of the overfilled cupboard and splintered on the floor. My thought was “ho hum, never mind there’ll be a bit more space in the cupboard now”. I stopped buying “good” mugs after […]
Things I learned from my children today
Timing is all relative. The family festive huddle necessitated us all sharing a room. Normally that’s not a problem. In fact, I quite like the soothing symphony of snores.However, Boy One is an early riser, always has been. At home he’s banned from getting up before 6am and then he has to sneak downstairs and […]