Family

  • Happy Halloween!!

    Happy Halloween!!! It all started off so well, Eva was a “witch” (we didn’t dare tell her otherwise) and Megan was……well, according to Eva she was a bull, but if you asked Meggy she was a rhino!! In the space of thirty seconds we went from smiles and laughter to tears and tantrums….and when it…

  • D.I.V.O.R.C.E

    Yesterday as I waved Lewis off for the half-term week at his Dads, I felt that familiar lump rise in my throat. As he turned to me and smiled through the car window and I watched them drive away, I blinked back my tears and told myself that it was just a week, just seven short…

  • A magic ring and pink plastic hair straighteners

    This morning Eva had a little Halloween party at pre-school and was very excited about wearing her witch costume! She really threw herself into the role of wicked witch, casting evil spells with her “magic ring” (which was actually one of those crappy plastic rings off a Greggs fairy cake) and turning Grandad into a frog. “I’m…

  • A bad day!!

    Today has been a bad day, a bad day in a long line of bad days. For twelve days I have lay in bed or on the couch, suffering with an ear, throat and chest infection. I have had two courses of antibiotics, a horrific reaction to one of them (apparently so rare that my…

  • Harrys handsome haircut

    Sixteen and a half months old and Harrison has had his very first haircut! I have been very reluctant to have it cut, I love his wild blonde mop and knew that when it was cut he would lose his baby face a little. But after weeks of continuously washing dried Weetabix out of his fringe…