You might be mistaken for thinking this is a young starlet on the red carpet at Cannes (maybe), but it isn’t. It’s Boy Two before his end of primary school dance and, despite looking as cool as the proverbial, he was very, very excited. Graduation ceremonies for nursery kids – unnecessary nonsense or, just, awwwwww? […]
I hate the way my children eat…
I hate the way my children eat…They don’t like green things, won’t try new stuff and squint suspiciously at anything in sauce. If it’s not beige or shaped like a toy, they won’t try – not hardly a nibble. Then splat, splat, splat. There’s ketchup everywhere. Surely it all tastes the same. And they’ll spin and tip, elbows […]
Night night, a bed-by-bed look at childhood
Sleep is probably the best bit about parenthood. Not my own, although that is never to be underrated. I mean the moment your little darling surrenders to the arms of Morpheus… and all the moments they stay there. It doesn’t matter how horrible and trying they’ve been during the waking hours, the time they let […]
Norovirus: A Sword of Damocles
The perils of the sleepover…
We’ve had sleepovers as a birthday celebration for Boy Two for a few years now.Last year, with the kids sleeping in two rooms I eventually had to turn off the wifi at about midnight to stop them Facetiming each other. I think they fell asleep and they certainly didn’t wake me.So Boy Two headed off […]