I hate the snow. I hate being cold, I hate being wet and I hate the inevitable sludge in my boots, frostbite in my fingers and windburn across my face. But like most children waking up around England this morning, my four were absolutely ecstatic to discover a spattering of snow and the prospect of….sledging!!! So…
I have to say, I have come up against a lot of challenges as a parent and yet none quite as challenging as my mission to remove that revolting piece of plastic from the leech like suction of my eldest daughters mouth. Dummy, you are my nemesis!! Lewis never had a dummy, despite those times…
So today Megan had her very first physio therapy session (she has been diagnosed with hyper mobility syndrome) and I was a little worried about how it would go. We all know that, when it comes to this girl, anything is possible. But in all of the worst case scenarios that I imagined, I never…
When you’ve got children, Christmas is chaos. When you’ve got four, it’s bedlam and when you’ve got my children….it’s a whole new level of crazy!!! But I think that it’s finally safe to say we survived it, although my house shall never be the same again, and now as the madness subsides we have officially declared Christmas…
In July, 2011, when Eva was just the size of a tiny grain of rice in my tummy, and we were tentatively hoping to expand our family, our beloved dog Charlie died very suddenly and it broke all of our hearts. He had been such a huge part of our family for seven long years…
You know the drill, the kids have got their new Christmas party clothes on and you really want a photo of them looking gorgeous, and clean, before they are covered in sweat, snot and chocolate and looking as though they’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards. And yet even with a little help from your…