Sleep deprivation is a bitch.
But when I’ve had a bad night, or two, or twenty I only have to look at one of the many mothers (and oh, there are so many right now, it must have been rutting season last May in this part of the country) at the school-gate carrying a newborn baby [...]
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Tired dork
February 22nd, 2010 · 10 Comments · Daily Life, Sleep
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Blog confessions
February 4th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Daily Life, memes
Adrenalynn recently posted some confessions and I was inspired to do the same because I like to share. So here are my top five confessions:
Confession Number 1
I tell my children I cannot come out and play with them in the garden because I am busy doing chores. In reality I am on Facebook, and I [...]
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What a week
January 24th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Daily Life
Matthew returns today after ten days away in the US. He is frequently away so it is not like the last week has been anything particularly out of the ordinary. Still, I am surprised that I have survived.
Let’s see. What did I do?
Well, I parented four naughty boys without any of us really losing our [...]
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Christmas traditions in status updates
December 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Daily Life
Dec 17: It’s eleven o’clock and I’m making gifts for the boys’ teachers for tomorrow. I’m making them, and I’m looking at them, and I’m mostly thinking SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THEM A BOTTLE OF WINE.
Dec 18: has mistaken ‘Christmas party’ at preschool to mean lunch not needed and sent her preschooler without. Bad mother. Sent [...]
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Snoutbreak
December 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Daily Life
Week three (last week) saw my eldest son Harry fall ill with swine flu, approximately five minutes before I was due to take William to his pretty crucial and long-awaited nephrologist appointment with the baby in tow while Matthew was going to take the other two children to school and then go on to work. [...]
Star Wars on Facebook
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Daily Life
I endure a lot of Star Wars, and Star Wars induced violence, in this house what with five boys and everything (if ever I wished for a girl it would be to have some solidarity against Star Wars and all things like it) but this made me laugh:
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Writing efforts that might also be described as limp and intermittently fretful
December 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Daily Life
A second week with swine flu while the baby lay comatose on my chest; limp and intermittently fretful. On Tuesday I got up maybe three times to pee but otherwise I was stuck night and day holding my very poorly little fella. Matthew thankfully worked from home that day and did the school runs and [...]
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Today’s homework
October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Daily Life
There’s more than one kind of breast cancer. Did you know that? During October, we’re so often flooded with “buy pink” campaigns, and reminders to check ourselves for lumps, that it’s become almost commonplace. We all know that we should do regular self exams, and we’ve heard it so often that the [...]
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Birthday, birthday
October 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Daily Life
The children have nine party invitations between them this weekend.
It would be sooo much cheaper if they were social misfits. If I added up how many parties they went to over the year I think I would call a moratorium on them and, oh I don’t know, feed the entire population of Gambia instead or [...]
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Shouldn’t write anything really
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Daily Life
What are you doing?/What’s on your mind?/Short updates for busy people by a busy blogger:
Third son has a growing stye in his beautiful eye. SO looking forward to THAT popping.
Earlier this week we had a fab day at Legoland. And if I’d ever thought, pre-children, I’d have said THAT, I would have probably had [...]
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