I broke a mirror the other day. Not by looking in it, before you ask. No, this smashing experience was thanks to our old front door. Which currently resides just to the side of our new front door in the hallway while we wait for it to be taken away. It was one of those …
I’ve always loved LEGO and am delighted that the kids have got into it too. Perhaps inevitably with so much of the stuff and three children, it ends up everywhere. As a result, we’ve spent a lot of time recently finding missing pieces and reassembling sets. I won’t lie; I really enjoy doing this. It’s a …
Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Once a harmless children’s song although I’ve now come to think of it as a battle cry from my offspring. It’s fair to say that my kids have made an impression on me in more ways than one. While I love them unconditionally I’ll still whinge about them on occasion – …
I returned to the scene I associate with my first big parenting faux pas recently. Fortunately, there was no repeat of what happened but the place still makes me wince. Since then, I’ve notched up plenty of parenting fails. Starting with that first one – and in no particular order as they’re all bad – …
There has been a direct correlation between Amelie’s continuing development and me suffering injuries of late. Somehow or other, she manages to hurt me every day. While she enjoys deploying makeshift melee weapons against me like any self-respecting tot, it’s the hand-to-face combat she prefers. Like Chuck Norris, Amelie doesn’t need a weapon – she is …