I was thinking that it might be nice to draw up a family tree for the children before family members start dying and I lose information about distant relatives. Then I realised that with each divorce a new branch is formed which means the humble family tree is more like an old [...]
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This morning as I was making spring rolls I was listening to some music, great for drowning out the children’s bickering. The song “The Impossible Dream” came on, you may know it best as the song in the Honda advertisement above. [...]
Doesn’t your heart just melt when your child hands you a grubby bunch of weeds as if they were a dozen long stem roses? I have a vase on my kitchen windowsill that always has a dandelion flower or two in it. Occasionally I will have a real flower in it but [...]
I am just absolutely sick and tired of people expecting women to enter the workforce once their youngest starts school. Children NEED a parent at home. If they come home to an empty house do you really think they are going to do their homework? Do you think their meals [...]
Last night my youngest got me out of bed at 3:30am., she just needed to be tucked in so off I went. Then I froze in her doorway, oblivious to the fact that a big hairy huntsman spider was on her wall she crawled into bed. I slowly edged my way towards [...]
Now I know I’m not alone when I say that sometimes the last thing on your mind is shaving…… especially if you have young children. You’re tired because you get up at the crack of dawn and pick up after the children all day, cook for the entire family even if the [...]
Every one has an opinion about the train wreck that is Britney Spears. Some would say that she’s stressed out with her kids and fame blah blah blah but when I was 26 I had a three year old and a one year old and I didn’t turn to drugs and [...]
My youngest is about to start school in two and a bit weeks……my baby! She has a bad habit of putting “B’s” in front of words, for example Beprise instead of surprise and Betella instead of Nutella. I don’t want her being picked on at school so I am trying to correct [...]
I believe every family needs “family time”. What ever your family is “into” you should take advantage of it and use it to cement your family members into a unit. We like action and adventure and a big bag of chips so we watch an episode of Xena every Saturday [...]