One last blog this side of Christmas.
Merry Christmas to everyone, and thank you for reading my posts.
Here's to family and friends and festive cheer.
Here's to some time off work/school all 4 of us together.
Here's to the end of the advent calendars and the daily arguments with 4-year-old because he's only allowed to open 1 door!
Here's to remembering, at the last minute, to make it look like Santa and Rudolph have eaten the mince pies and carrots left for them!
Here's to absolute chaos on Christmas Day! Wrapping paper everywhere and a sea of toys slowly creeping across the floor further and further!
Here's to eating too much, but fabulous food of course!
Here's to the weeks and weeks supply of chocolates and biscuits that this time of year brings!
Here's to sitting down in the evening, once the little darlings are finally asleep, with a glass of something toasting the season, but most of all, just being grateful that the noise has stopped!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best wishes to all for 2018. xx
Sunday 17 December 2017
Saturday 9 December 2017
Bob the Bug!
Some of you may remember my previous post 'learning to talk.' I'd now like to follow up on that post with 'Bob the Bug!'
My 4-year-old is now onto actual reading books from school, with proper words in! And the first book of this type that he brings home is? Yep you got it, Bob the Bug!'
Well, I didn't have to wait more than a few seconds for the pronunciation I was hoping for, the very first sentence, over emphasis on the 'g' sound making it 'Bob is a Bug**r!'
Another miss-pronunciation (and therefore silent hysterics) occurred 3 pages later when 'Bob has a cot' went a bit wrong!!
Finishing off this incredibly entertaining 8 page children's book with 'Bob the Bug**r has a hugger!'
A short and hopefully comical blog post this week as I am extremely busy being sociable this next week and not sure I will have time to write one later on! xx
My 4-year-old is now onto actual reading books from school, with proper words in! And the first book of this type that he brings home is? Yep you got it, Bob the Bug!'
Well, I didn't have to wait more than a few seconds for the pronunciation I was hoping for, the very first sentence, over emphasis on the 'g' sound making it 'Bob is a Bug**r!'
Another miss-pronunciation (and therefore silent hysterics) occurred 3 pages later when 'Bob has a cot' went a bit wrong!!
Finishing off this incredibly entertaining 8 page children's book with 'Bob the Bug**r has a hugger!'
A short and hopefully comical blog post this week as I am extremely busy being sociable this next week and not sure I will have time to write one later on! xx
Tuesday 5 December 2017
I'm A Mother, Get Me Out Of Here!
As we go through the festive party season, I find myself increasingly looking forward to the 2 consecutive Friday nights out I have coming up. That's 2 evenings out with friends and colleagues from my past and present, without my hubby and kids!
The build up to Christmas can be a stressful time, amongst the Christmas card writing, wrapping, lists of what food is needed for which days, outfit dilemma's for the 2 evenings out etc you also have to fit in normal life! Work and school. The next 2 weeks are the busiest in the school calendar as well. Things to remember include: Christmas Art Attack, Tag day, donations for the Christmas fayre, pantomime trips, the actual Christmas fayre, Christmas play costumes and then the performances.
Somewhere along the line, I also have to remember every day to let the kids open their advent calendars, then have repeated arguments with 4-year-old as to why he can't open more than 1 door!
They also still have to do their weekly home learning. These days this includes: For 7-year-old: Spellings practice, maths online thingy, reading 30 minutes a day and remembering to write it in her record. For 4-year-old: Daily reading and remembering to write it in his record, weekly task such as to draw a picture of whatever or write out a few letters, and more recently the addition of having to play/draw with certain items, this week it is play dough, chalk and a bean bag, and remembering to write it in his - get this - 'motor home learning diary!' It is actually written like that on the book which I'm finding quite amusing as it sounds like he's got to learn to drive a camper van!
So, as I sit here resisting having more than 1 mince pie whilst watching - can you guess what?! I'm also waiting patiently for Friday evening when this mother can get out of here for 5 minutes!
xx
The build up to Christmas can be a stressful time, amongst the Christmas card writing, wrapping, lists of what food is needed for which days, outfit dilemma's for the 2 evenings out etc you also have to fit in normal life! Work and school. The next 2 weeks are the busiest in the school calendar as well. Things to remember include: Christmas Art Attack, Tag day, donations for the Christmas fayre, pantomime trips, the actual Christmas fayre, Christmas play costumes and then the performances.
Somewhere along the line, I also have to remember every day to let the kids open their advent calendars, then have repeated arguments with 4-year-old as to why he can't open more than 1 door!
They also still have to do their weekly home learning. These days this includes: For 7-year-old: Spellings practice, maths online thingy, reading 30 minutes a day and remembering to write it in her record. For 4-year-old: Daily reading and remembering to write it in his record, weekly task such as to draw a picture of whatever or write out a few letters, and more recently the addition of having to play/draw with certain items, this week it is play dough, chalk and a bean bag, and remembering to write it in his - get this - 'motor home learning diary!' It is actually written like that on the book which I'm finding quite amusing as it sounds like he's got to learn to drive a camper van!
So, as I sit here resisting having more than 1 mince pie whilst watching - can you guess what?! I'm also waiting patiently for Friday evening when this mother can get out of here for 5 minutes!
xx
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Learning to talk
So my 4-year-old son has come so far in the last 2 months since starting school. A year ago he wasn't toilet trained, still drank out of a baby bottle at night, threw 'terrible 2' tantrums even though he was 3 and most of all, could hardly speak 2 words.
He was recommended for speech therapy, but due to the lengthy waiting list, by the time he actually got offered an appointment he could speak so much more that they decided he no longer needed it and signed him off.
Toilet training, ditching the baby bottle and the tantrums soon wore off, nursery was working wonders.
However, since starting school, my 'baby' is no longer my baby! He's coming home showing me 'bar models!' Yes, the first time I heard him say this I did think I had misheard him! Apparently this is how they teach them to add up.
He's talking about diagraphs and innovation and that we must never give up!
He's grasped the alphabet and writing the letters, and according to his teacher has a natural understanding of maths. I'm considering that may be he's not actually my child!
However, his latest little gem that is keeping my giggling, is as follows. He has now learnt to pronounce 'c' and 'g' properly. He announced during dinner the other evening that he knew what 'P I G' spelt = pig! I said well done, and then realised he had pronounced the 'g' properly, so naturally got him to repeat 'pig' about 100 times! Although, when pronouncing pig and other words such as this, there is emphasis on the 'g' so it sounds like 'pigger!' 7-year-old then pipes up 'Mummy what's pigger!' I explain to her that he's saying pig of course and then think to myself that I should may be get him to pronounce 'bug!' Do you get it??!! But I don't think I can deal with the question that will naturally follow from 7-year-old!
In attempting to move him on a bit I've tried to help him pronounce 'l' and 'v.' It's not gone brilliantly well! For 'low' he now spells it 'la la la la o w' then proceeds to say 'wow' instead! And for volcano he says 'v v v' and follows it with pronouncing 'holcano!'
We'll get there, he's done so well, and remembering he's 11 months younger than a lot of them in his class just makes his achievements bigger somehow.
xx
He was recommended for speech therapy, but due to the lengthy waiting list, by the time he actually got offered an appointment he could speak so much more that they decided he no longer needed it and signed him off.
Toilet training, ditching the baby bottle and the tantrums soon wore off, nursery was working wonders.
However, since starting school, my 'baby' is no longer my baby! He's coming home showing me 'bar models!' Yes, the first time I heard him say this I did think I had misheard him! Apparently this is how they teach them to add up.
He's talking about diagraphs and innovation and that we must never give up!
He's grasped the alphabet and writing the letters, and according to his teacher has a natural understanding of maths. I'm considering that may be he's not actually my child!
However, his latest little gem that is keeping my giggling, is as follows. He has now learnt to pronounce 'c' and 'g' properly. He announced during dinner the other evening that he knew what 'P I G' spelt = pig! I said well done, and then realised he had pronounced the 'g' properly, so naturally got him to repeat 'pig' about 100 times! Although, when pronouncing pig and other words such as this, there is emphasis on the 'g' so it sounds like 'pigger!' 7-year-old then pipes up 'Mummy what's pigger!' I explain to her that he's saying pig of course and then think to myself that I should may be get him to pronounce 'bug!' Do you get it??!! But I don't think I can deal with the question that will naturally follow from 7-year-old!
In attempting to move him on a bit I've tried to help him pronounce 'l' and 'v.' It's not gone brilliantly well! For 'low' he now spells it 'la la la la o w' then proceeds to say 'wow' instead! And for volcano he says 'v v v' and follows it with pronouncing 'holcano!'
We'll get there, he's done so well, and remembering he's 11 months younger than a lot of them in his class just makes his achievements bigger somehow.
xx
Saturday 18 November 2017
Marriage is.......................
Over the years, friends, new and old, may ask where did you 2 meet? How did he propose? Where did you get married? How old are your children?
All these things are for sure the events that stick in your mind and are your memories forever, they are the story telling, but they are not what marriage is.
Marriage is ........................ everything, from the moment we met to now, and (I hope) the rest of forever!
I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if it wasn't for marriage. In case you're wondering, that is sitting by myself on a Saturday evening, kids in bed, husband out, watching George and Larry Lamb tour Turkey on the telly, rock and roll!
Marriage is the every day everything. The hovering on a Tuesday morning whilst the kids are at school, going to work, school runs, having lunch with my Mum, optician appointments, cinema trips, coffee breaks, literally everything from the mundane normality to the bigger moments such as the actual wedding and having the babies!
So, I think I'll answer the questions in the top 2 lines now, for those wishing to know!
In my Grandma's garden in 2001.
On Valentines Day whilst away for the weekend in Oxford in 2005.
Red Rock Canyon just outside Las Vegas.
7 and 4!!
And finally, marriage is, hoping that when my husband gets home, he can explain why every time I decide to watch a whole episode of Midsomer Murders it's always the episode where Martine McCutcheon gets squashed by a giant cheese!! 😂😂
Happy Saturday everyone! xx
All these things are for sure the events that stick in your mind and are your memories forever, they are the story telling, but they are not what marriage is.
Marriage is ........................ everything, from the moment we met to now, and (I hope) the rest of forever!
I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if it wasn't for marriage. In case you're wondering, that is sitting by myself on a Saturday evening, kids in bed, husband out, watching George and Larry Lamb tour Turkey on the telly, rock and roll!
Marriage is the every day everything. The hovering on a Tuesday morning whilst the kids are at school, going to work, school runs, having lunch with my Mum, optician appointments, cinema trips, coffee breaks, literally everything from the mundane normality to the bigger moments such as the actual wedding and having the babies!
So, I think I'll answer the questions in the top 2 lines now, for those wishing to know!
In my Grandma's garden in 2001.
On Valentines Day whilst away for the weekend in Oxford in 2005.
Red Rock Canyon just outside Las Vegas.
7 and 4!!
And finally, marriage is, hoping that when my husband gets home, he can explain why every time I decide to watch a whole episode of Midsomer Murders it's always the episode where Martine McCutcheon gets squashed by a giant cheese!! 😂😂
Happy Saturday everyone! xx
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Statements of Fact Part 2
Be kind to everyone because you can never tell who has lost an argument with a 4-year-old today!
Silence is golden, unless you're a parent, then it's suspicious!
Hell has no fury like a 4-year-old whose sandwiches have been cut into squares when he wanted triangles!
If you have 1 child then you're a parent. If you have more than 1 child that makes you a referee, nurse, taxi driver, waitress, counsellor etc!!
A 4-year-old takes half hour to put on shoes but can delete apps, phone Australia and text someone in 20 seconds!
We are all braver, stronger and smarter than we think.
Sometimes my 'Mummy' voice is so loud that the neighbours put their shoes on immediately!
Everything in my life has something to do with coffee (and tea)!!
Finally, 1 of my favourite quotes from my favourite US TV series (second of course to 'give me coffee and no-one gets hurt!) - 'people can live 100 years without ever doing anything, so make it count.'
xx
Silence is golden, unless you're a parent, then it's suspicious!
Hell has no fury like a 4-year-old whose sandwiches have been cut into squares when he wanted triangles!
If you have 1 child then you're a parent. If you have more than 1 child that makes you a referee, nurse, taxi driver, waitress, counsellor etc!!
A 4-year-old takes half hour to put on shoes but can delete apps, phone Australia and text someone in 20 seconds!
We are all braver, stronger and smarter than we think.
Sometimes my 'Mummy' voice is so loud that the neighbours put their shoes on immediately!
Everything in my life has something to do with coffee (and tea)!!
Finally, 1 of my favourite quotes from my favourite US TV series (second of course to 'give me coffee and no-one gets hurt!) - 'people can live 100 years without ever doing anything, so make it count.'
xx
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Why?
Why? When you decide to work a different day do the kids decide they don't want to go to school. Followed by texts from the school within in 2 hours of being at work saying one child has had first aid administered!
Why? When you present child with dinner, after hours of complaining they're hungry, do they take over an hour eating it!
Why? There's yoghurt on the bottom of my jeans! And icing in my handbag!!
Why? 4-year-old carries a stick around everywhere like some sort of retriever!
Why? 7-year-old says 'I don't get it' to everything I say but apparently she's very intelligent at school!
Why? As soon as you tell someone that your child is sleeping a lot better or that they haven't been ill for ages, do they then wake you up once an hour worse than a new born, and catch the next available cold/bug going around!
Why? When the normal child insomniac in the house decides to sleep properly, does the other child decide to have a bad night!
Why? Do I not understand my 7-year-old's English homework!
Why? Every time you dare to think everything might just be normal for 5 minutes, does the universe decide to throw your entire day/week/life into complete chaos!
So I guess it's just 'Murphy's Law' to put it politely!
xx
Why? When you present child with dinner, after hours of complaining they're hungry, do they take over an hour eating it!
Why? There's yoghurt on the bottom of my jeans! And icing in my handbag!!
Why? 4-year-old carries a stick around everywhere like some sort of retriever!
Why? 7-year-old says 'I don't get it' to everything I say but apparently she's very intelligent at school!
Why? As soon as you tell someone that your child is sleeping a lot better or that they haven't been ill for ages, do they then wake you up once an hour worse than a new born, and catch the next available cold/bug going around!
Why? When the normal child insomniac in the house decides to sleep properly, does the other child decide to have a bad night!
Why? Do I not understand my 7-year-old's English homework!
Why? Every time you dare to think everything might just be normal for 5 minutes, does the universe decide to throw your entire day/week/life into complete chaos!
So I guess it's just 'Murphy's Law' to put it politely!
xx
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Our Halloween
I'm slightly delayed doing my blog post this week due to being away last week and then getting back to normality on Monday. There's the normal returning to work/school after a holiday that nobody likes, and then there's this particular Monday, that's a whole different ball game!
4-year-old, who had had a nasty cough during half term, didn't sleep past 4am on Monday morning, therefore neither did I! He then, for the first time, didn't want to go to school. Kept saying his mouth hurt. After faffing about for ages, trying to decide whether to send him to school or not, finally I try 'tactics.' I say to him, 'if your mouth hurts that much we'll have to go to the dentist.' All of a sudden he decides he should get dressed for school!
He's still a bit subdued going into school, and big sister helps him go in with all his baggage. I wonder all day if I will get 'the call' from the school sending him home. This never occurs. Therefore, yesterday (Tuesday and Halloween) I am relaxed in the fact that both children are at school and I can go back to normal.
I go round town and pick up a few Halloween things (as we are not organised this year!). Sweets for the trick or treaters, silly masks for the kids, silly balloons for the kids, silly head bands for the kids! You get the idea!
I go off to have lunch with my Mum as normal for Tuesdays, and 2 bites into my sandwich, 'school calling!' 4-year-old has been sick.
I race back, and by the time I've got to the school it's less than an hour until normal pick up time anyway and they tell me 4-year-old is actually ok now but nevertheless needs to go home due to the sickness. Ideally he should be kept off school for 48 hours to prevent any spread of germs.
However I speak to the teacher who tells me he was only sick because he was coughing so much during PE, and although policy is to keep them off for 48 hours, it can be my choice whether to keep him at home for the full 2 days. I decide to compromise with the school and keep him off just for 1 day just for caution. 4-year-old is returned to me bright as a button, 'happy as Larry', and asking for chocolate! Also, just to prove he was absolutely fine, our neighbours call round soon after I arrive home with 4-year-old, offering little chocolate pumpkins for the kids as a Halloween gift, 4-year-old thunders towards the front door grabbing the chocolate and stuffing it in his face, I'm not even sure he removed the wrapping first!
So after going back to the school again 40 minutes later to get 7-year-old, and bribing both kids with the thought of Halloween treats to get them showered/bathed, we finally embark on Halloween.
Our Halloween, consisted of 7-year old wearing all the silly bits I'd bought her, and posing for the camera, and looking out the window for trick or treaters. 4-year-old, although fine, didn't want to wear his mask, head band or even hold the ghost balloon! Refused to drink from a straw with a pumpkin on and wouldn't pose for the camera. The only bit he seemed to enjoy was answering the door to the trick or treaters. He was shouting 'trick or treat' at them, not sure he's quite got the idea! I invested in 3 bags of sweets (in past years we've needed more than this), and only 2 lots of kids turned up (total of about 7 sweets given out!!)
So I think Halloween was a bit of a 'flop' really in our house! Below 1 picture of 7-year-old to prove that my efforts to buy them some Halloween silly fun things didn't go completely wasted!
4-year-old, who had had a nasty cough during half term, didn't sleep past 4am on Monday morning, therefore neither did I! He then, for the first time, didn't want to go to school. Kept saying his mouth hurt. After faffing about for ages, trying to decide whether to send him to school or not, finally I try 'tactics.' I say to him, 'if your mouth hurts that much we'll have to go to the dentist.' All of a sudden he decides he should get dressed for school!
He's still a bit subdued going into school, and big sister helps him go in with all his baggage. I wonder all day if I will get 'the call' from the school sending him home. This never occurs. Therefore, yesterday (Tuesday and Halloween) I am relaxed in the fact that both children are at school and I can go back to normal.
I go round town and pick up a few Halloween things (as we are not organised this year!). Sweets for the trick or treaters, silly masks for the kids, silly balloons for the kids, silly head bands for the kids! You get the idea!
I go off to have lunch with my Mum as normal for Tuesdays, and 2 bites into my sandwich, 'school calling!' 4-year-old has been sick.
I race back, and by the time I've got to the school it's less than an hour until normal pick up time anyway and they tell me 4-year-old is actually ok now but nevertheless needs to go home due to the sickness. Ideally he should be kept off school for 48 hours to prevent any spread of germs.
However I speak to the teacher who tells me he was only sick because he was coughing so much during PE, and although policy is to keep them off for 48 hours, it can be my choice whether to keep him at home for the full 2 days. I decide to compromise with the school and keep him off just for 1 day just for caution. 4-year-old is returned to me bright as a button, 'happy as Larry', and asking for chocolate! Also, just to prove he was absolutely fine, our neighbours call round soon after I arrive home with 4-year-old, offering little chocolate pumpkins for the kids as a Halloween gift, 4-year-old thunders towards the front door grabbing the chocolate and stuffing it in his face, I'm not even sure he removed the wrapping first!
So after going back to the school again 40 minutes later to get 7-year-old, and bribing both kids with the thought of Halloween treats to get them showered/bathed, we finally embark on Halloween.
Our Halloween, consisted of 7-year old wearing all the silly bits I'd bought her, and posing for the camera, and looking out the window for trick or treaters. 4-year-old, although fine, didn't want to wear his mask, head band or even hold the ghost balloon! Refused to drink from a straw with a pumpkin on and wouldn't pose for the camera. The only bit he seemed to enjoy was answering the door to the trick or treaters. He was shouting 'trick or treat' at them, not sure he's quite got the idea! I invested in 3 bags of sweets (in past years we've needed more than this), and only 2 lots of kids turned up (total of about 7 sweets given out!!)
So I think Halloween was a bit of a 'flop' really in our house! Below 1 picture of 7-year-old to prove that my efforts to buy them some Halloween silly fun things didn't go completely wasted!
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Diagraphs and Innovation!
Help! I'm no longer bringing up babies! My children are growing up too fast! My (only just) 4-year-old is talking about diagraphs and yesterday mentioned the word innovation! So I guess it's clear we're definitely in the Primary school years now!
I remember when my daughter was 4 and came home from school repeating 'we must always endeavour and we must never give up!' A sign she wasn't going to be 4 forever!
How have they gone from this
to this is about 5 seconds!
I am now quite used to them both being at school all day. It's nice to actually get conversations in with people without constant interruptions, and half term this week seems to have come around so fast. However, I do feel like I've blinked and missed it a bit.
When I had my son, second child, I was determined to make the most of the baby stage, enjoy it, because they're not babies for long, just as everyone had said when I had my first child. With the first child you're so exhausted and I personally found it such a shock to the system, that you don't necessarily enjoy it (not true for everyone obviously).
I still call my son 'baby' even though babies don't talk about diagraphs!
My daughter, when walking back from the Chinese takeaway with me on Friday evening, I said 'I don't know' to something but I said it fast (so that it didn't sound quite like I don't know) she questioned what I said, when I explained she said 'oh yes Mummy that's a contraction!' I think we have different ideas to what a contraction is!! She meant it in grammatical terms (I had squeezed the words I don't know together).
I was left wondering who was the adult!
This was followed by my son, repeating numbers back in Mandarin! The whole school had been learning about Shanghai apparently and my daughter was asking me what numbers I thought she was saying in Mandarin, 4-year-old answered and was right!!
However, I'm not sure i should be overly concerned at this moment about their quick aging as my son is currently head butting the sofa and laughing to himself!
Xx
I remember when my daughter was 4 and came home from school repeating 'we must always endeavour and we must never give up!' A sign she wasn't going to be 4 forever!
How have they gone from this
to this is about 5 seconds!
I am now quite used to them both being at school all day. It's nice to actually get conversations in with people without constant interruptions, and half term this week seems to have come around so fast. However, I do feel like I've blinked and missed it a bit.
When I had my son, second child, I was determined to make the most of the baby stage, enjoy it, because they're not babies for long, just as everyone had said when I had my first child. With the first child you're so exhausted and I personally found it such a shock to the system, that you don't necessarily enjoy it (not true for everyone obviously).
I still call my son 'baby' even though babies don't talk about diagraphs!
My daughter, when walking back from the Chinese takeaway with me on Friday evening, I said 'I don't know' to something but I said it fast (so that it didn't sound quite like I don't know) she questioned what I said, when I explained she said 'oh yes Mummy that's a contraction!' I think we have different ideas to what a contraction is!! She meant it in grammatical terms (I had squeezed the words I don't know together).
I was left wondering who was the adult!
This was followed by my son, repeating numbers back in Mandarin! The whole school had been learning about Shanghai apparently and my daughter was asking me what numbers I thought she was saying in Mandarin, 4-year-old answered and was right!!
However, I'm not sure i should be overly concerned at this moment about their quick aging as my son is currently head butting the sofa and laughing to himself!
Xx
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Little Miss
So after a stressful day at work yesterday I walk through the front door to be met by little miss 7-year-old asking 'what's the solar system?!' 'What's the atmosphere?!'
Hold on, get me wine first!
Then, on emerging from shower, I'm met by little miss inquisitive, with 'what's helium?!'
Whilst cooking dinner little miss constant questions (and little brother) start with 'what's a planet? And why dont we live on Jupiter?!'
All this has stemmed from little miss academic's latest school reading book by the way.
However, after dinner, whilst loading dishwasher, and thanks to BBC news, little miss save the best question for last asks 'What's breast feeding?!'
I gave her the truth on this one and she followed it in typical little miss lack of concentration style with, 'let's play hide and seek!' Directed at little brother of course.
Have a good day everyone!
Xx
Hold on, get me wine first!
Then, on emerging from shower, I'm met by little miss inquisitive, with 'what's helium?!'
Whilst cooking dinner little miss constant questions (and little brother) start with 'what's a planet? And why dont we live on Jupiter?!'
All this has stemmed from little miss academic's latest school reading book by the way.
However, after dinner, whilst loading dishwasher, and thanks to BBC news, little miss save the best question for last asks 'What's breast feeding?!'
I gave her the truth on this one and she followed it in typical little miss lack of concentration style with, 'let's play hide and seek!' Directed at little brother of course.
Have a good day everyone!
Xx
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Baggage Baggage Baggage!
Since having 2 children the contents of my handbag is sometimes along the lines of a Mary Poppins bag! If a hat stand and a full length mirror don't appear I'm surprised!
The other day for example I went to work with 2 plastic dinosaurs for company, and ended the day with a bottle of Cif Kitchen and a pair of marigolds in there (as well as the 2 dinosaurs!)
As a mother you can generally find something for every eventuality in my handbag! Such as plasters, Germolene, headache tablets, cardigans for me and the kids, rain coats for me and the kids, 2 water bottles for the kids, travel mug full of caffeine for me, shopping 'bag for life,' umbrella, hairbrush, hair tie, compact mirror (not full length!) the list in endless!
The school run is getting more interesting for baggage now both kids are at school too! Particularly on Thursdays when we have 2 lunch boxes, 2 water bottles, 2 book bags, 2 rain coats and a dance kit! My smallest one looks like he might topple over before he reaches the classroom!
I always thought that once a changing bag was no longer needed, that the baggage would decrease, and the need to take everything including the kitchen sink every time you went out would cease. However, since this lack of changing bag has occurred, my handbag has just doubled in size! And without a pushchair to hang everything on as well, I actually have to carry any shopping bags, coats etc, most inconvenient!
Honestly, all my Mummy friends with younger children, you're longing for the day you ditch the pushchair, but imagine juggling a handbag the size of a small suitcase, holding 2 kids hands, a takeaway coffee and some shopping bags!
xx
The other day for example I went to work with 2 plastic dinosaurs for company, and ended the day with a bottle of Cif Kitchen and a pair of marigolds in there (as well as the 2 dinosaurs!)
As a mother you can generally find something for every eventuality in my handbag! Such as plasters, Germolene, headache tablets, cardigans for me and the kids, rain coats for me and the kids, 2 water bottles for the kids, travel mug full of caffeine for me, shopping 'bag for life,' umbrella, hairbrush, hair tie, compact mirror (not full length!) the list in endless!
The school run is getting more interesting for baggage now both kids are at school too! Particularly on Thursdays when we have 2 lunch boxes, 2 water bottles, 2 book bags, 2 rain coats and a dance kit! My smallest one looks like he might topple over before he reaches the classroom!
I always thought that once a changing bag was no longer needed, that the baggage would decrease, and the need to take everything including the kitchen sink every time you went out would cease. However, since this lack of changing bag has occurred, my handbag has just doubled in size! And without a pushchair to hang everything on as well, I actually have to carry any shopping bags, coats etc, most inconvenient!
Honestly, all my Mummy friends with younger children, you're longing for the day you ditch the pushchair, but imagine juggling a handbag the size of a small suitcase, holding 2 kids hands, a takeaway coffee and some shopping bags!
xx
What I am actually doing
Being a mother means that various rooms in the house take on different uses.
What the kids assume is happening: What I am actually doing:
Kitchen - washing up, loading Trying to stuff chocolate or biscuits in my mouth
the dishwasher or washing machine. without being caught!
Bathroom - using the loo, washing Hiding from the kids!
my hair.
Bedroom (in the day time, although Hiding from the kids!
given that 4-year-old can still be an
insomniac at times, possibly night time
too). - Putting washing away, changing
bedding, sleeping.
Garage - Putting the rubbish out. Hiding from the kids!
The car - cleaning it. Hiding from the kids!
And finally, living room - writing Actually I am usually drinking a coffee and writing a few
my blog, watching the same kids film lines of this whilst trying to sit down! Lasts only
they are, for the millionth time! a few seconds usually!
xx
What the kids assume is happening: What I am actually doing:
Kitchen - washing up, loading Trying to stuff chocolate or biscuits in my mouth
the dishwasher or washing machine. without being caught!
Bathroom - using the loo, washing Hiding from the kids!
my hair.
Bedroom (in the day time, although Hiding from the kids!
given that 4-year-old can still be an
insomniac at times, possibly night time
too). - Putting washing away, changing
bedding, sleeping.
Garage - Putting the rubbish out. Hiding from the kids!
The car - cleaning it. Hiding from the kids!
And finally, living room - writing Actually I am usually drinking a coffee and writing a few
my blog, watching the same kids film lines of this whilst trying to sit down! Lasts only
they are, for the millionth time! a few seconds usually!
xx
Sunday 8 October 2017
A thought for a Sunday evening
So the last 2 Sundays have resulted in tricky questions from 7-year-old. 2 weeks ago it was 'Mummy what's sex!' Then last week it was 'Daddy how can that lady have a wife!'
Hmm I wonder what tonight's little gem will be!
Perhaps, 'why are we human?' or 'what's the universe?'
How about 'Mummy why is your body different to mine?!'
I admit I almost started this conversation with her yesterday by accident! And as I sit here trying to remember exactly how the conversation started for the sake of this sentence, she's sitting right beside me, so need to resist the urge to ask her what we were chatting about! Thankfully she's engrossed on the tablet so she isn't actually looking over my shoulder at this moment!
Ahh I remember now, she was asking if her little brother will ever be taller than her. I said yes probably and as you both get older and to a point where your bodies are changing that's when you'll probably notice your brother may be taller than you. 'Your body changes Mummy?' 'Yes as you get older, not yet though.' 'You mean your hair gets shorter?!' 'No, you choose whether that happens (usually). Some changes you have no choice over.'
Oh why oh why did I start this conversation!
It actually ended at that point as she got distracted by something else, probably little brother.
Little brother is currently sat on floor, wearing nothing but pants, laughing hysterically at something blowing raspberries on TV! At this moment the thought of him being older and taller than his sister, or me, seems so far away!
xx
Hmm I wonder what tonight's little gem will be!
Perhaps, 'why are we human?' or 'what's the universe?'
How about 'Mummy why is your body different to mine?!'
I admit I almost started this conversation with her yesterday by accident! And as I sit here trying to remember exactly how the conversation started for the sake of this sentence, she's sitting right beside me, so need to resist the urge to ask her what we were chatting about! Thankfully she's engrossed on the tablet so she isn't actually looking over my shoulder at this moment!
Ahh I remember now, she was asking if her little brother will ever be taller than her. I said yes probably and as you both get older and to a point where your bodies are changing that's when you'll probably notice your brother may be taller than you. 'Your body changes Mummy?' 'Yes as you get older, not yet though.' 'You mean your hair gets shorter?!' 'No, you choose whether that happens (usually). Some changes you have no choice over.'
Oh why oh why did I start this conversation!
It actually ended at that point as she got distracted by something else, probably little brother.
Little brother is currently sat on floor, wearing nothing but pants, laughing hysterically at something blowing raspberries on TV! At this moment the thought of him being older and taller than his sister, or me, seems so far away!
xx
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Statements of Fact
I'm looking for a moisturiser that reduces the
fact that I have been tired for years!
Someone should invent an intravenous drip that
can be hidden under your clothes to constantly inject caffeine!
Every stage of parenthood has its challenges,
and you will always think that the stage you are at now is the hardest.
Your child will always come downstairs mid-summer
wearing their woolly hat and gloves, but come winter you can’t get them to wear
them for love nor money!
Saturday night is party night takes on a whole
new meaning! It now means watching TV in
your pyjamas and having a glass of wine once the kids are in bed, in peace!
Happiness is a new washing machine!
Love is your husband bringing 2 slices of cake home
and saying, ‘we won’t eat them until the kids are asleep!’ (Evil laugh!)
Excitement is the anticipation of being able to eat a Pop Tart and drink an instant latte whilst watching your favourite American series, knowing the kids are at school!
You know almost as soon as you get up that you'll need to take a nap, not just today, but tomorrow too!
Xx
Excitement is the anticipation of being able to eat a Pop Tart and drink an instant latte whilst watching your favourite American series, knowing the kids are at school!
You know almost as soon as you get up that you'll need to take a nap, not just today, but tomorrow too!
Xx
Sunday 1 October 2017
Super Mum
Inspired by and written for my lovely friend Hannah. Both my kids were at school and you were juggling your 2, don't worry it does get easier! 💜
Super Mum is a super hero without realising she is.
Super Mum is the mother who wakes up and decides it's a good idea to attempt to take both her kids to the soft play centre for a treat. However things don't go according to plan, she never gets that latte she's been dreaming of whilst the kids play. In reality she ends up somehow holding both children at the same time, one screaming because he wants to get down and the other screaming because she hurt herself and is refusing to get down!
Super Mum is the mother who finally cracks and screams at the kids because they've repeatedly ignored her shouts of 'NO' for the last hour. She then has to shut herself in the bathroom for a secret cry because she's ashamed of the way she screamed at the kids, and is also worried that the neighbours may report her to social services!
Super Mum is the mother who when she finally attempts to fall asleep at night, can be woken by a child simply breathing in a room at the far end of the hall way and where 2 doors are closed in between!
Super Mum is the mother who wants everyone to think her kids eat lovely lush fresh healthy fruit and vegetables for every meal, when in reality in an effort to get them to actually eat something (anything) it's inevitably chicken nuggets or fish fingers again!
Super Mum is the mother who considers becoming tee total every evening, and then the kids drive her to drink yet again!
Super Mum is the mother who single handedly cooks dinner whilst listening to one child do her statutory 30 minutes of reading per day for school, removing various sponges, cloths, washing up liquid from the other child's clutches, trying to pour a glass of wine, load the washing machine and find the new bottle of ketchup all at once!
To all us Super Mum's, as one of my son's nursery teachers told me once, you should never feel like a bad mother, it doesn't matter how other people choose to do things, you do what's right for you and your family. Don't worry, we're all doing great!
Now as i sit watching them both run riot 45 minutes before bed time I'll multi task yet again and juggle my glass of wine and my cup of tea at the same time !
Have a good evening everyone. Xx
Super Mum is a super hero without realising she is.
Super Mum is the mother who wakes up and decides it's a good idea to attempt to take both her kids to the soft play centre for a treat. However things don't go according to plan, she never gets that latte she's been dreaming of whilst the kids play. In reality she ends up somehow holding both children at the same time, one screaming because he wants to get down and the other screaming because she hurt herself and is refusing to get down!
Super Mum is the mother who finally cracks and screams at the kids because they've repeatedly ignored her shouts of 'NO' for the last hour. She then has to shut herself in the bathroom for a secret cry because she's ashamed of the way she screamed at the kids, and is also worried that the neighbours may report her to social services!
Super Mum is the mother who when she finally attempts to fall asleep at night, can be woken by a child simply breathing in a room at the far end of the hall way and where 2 doors are closed in between!
Super Mum is the mother who wants everyone to think her kids eat lovely lush fresh healthy fruit and vegetables for every meal, when in reality in an effort to get them to actually eat something (anything) it's inevitably chicken nuggets or fish fingers again!
Super Mum is the mother who considers becoming tee total every evening, and then the kids drive her to drink yet again!
Super Mum is the mother who single handedly cooks dinner whilst listening to one child do her statutory 30 minutes of reading per day for school, removing various sponges, cloths, washing up liquid from the other child's clutches, trying to pour a glass of wine, load the washing machine and find the new bottle of ketchup all at once!
To all us Super Mum's, as one of my son's nursery teachers told me once, you should never feel like a bad mother, it doesn't matter how other people choose to do things, you do what's right for you and your family. Don't worry, we're all doing great!
Now as i sit watching them both run riot 45 minutes before bed time I'll multi task yet again and juggle my glass of wine and my cup of tea at the same time !
Have a good evening everyone. Xx
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Manure on the school run!
So this morning's school run started off no different to any other, a high speed race with the well practiced routine to get out the front door on time. The kids argue about which back door of the car to get in (yes they actually do that!), followed by the fact that undoubtedly they will have got in through the door furthest away from their individual seats, resulting in them trying to squeeze past each other in the back, whilst holding enough baggage to go away for a week!
We park near (ish) the school and walk along the path with me repeatedly shouting at 4-year-old to either slow down or speed up! Why is it they shuffle along dragging their heels and the minute you say speed up they take off like a bullet and you end up having to do an impression of an Olympic sprinter to catch them before they run out in the road!
However, upon walking the final stretch of pathway to the school, 4-year-old starts shouting out that he can smell something. 7-year-old agrees. I can't smell anything. They keep reiterating this fact, until I eventually say maybe there has been some muck spread on the fields.
'What sort of muck Mummy?' (If you've read my previous couple of posts you'll know which child this is asking the questions!)
'Well it's usually horse manure, it's good for the soil and for the crops.'
'Not dog poo then or human poo!'
'No, horse manure is what they usually use.'
Oh I do love a conversation about poo at 8.35 am whilst trying to navigate myself and 2 kids (because they never look where they're going) through all the other parents and children all aiming for the school!
Have a lovely day everybody!
xx
We park near (ish) the school and walk along the path with me repeatedly shouting at 4-year-old to either slow down or speed up! Why is it they shuffle along dragging their heels and the minute you say speed up they take off like a bullet and you end up having to do an impression of an Olympic sprinter to catch them before they run out in the road!
However, upon walking the final stretch of pathway to the school, 4-year-old starts shouting out that he can smell something. 7-year-old agrees. I can't smell anything. They keep reiterating this fact, until I eventually say maybe there has been some muck spread on the fields.
'What sort of muck Mummy?' (If you've read my previous couple of posts you'll know which child this is asking the questions!)
'Well it's usually horse manure, it's good for the soil and for the crops.'
'Not dog poo then or human poo!'
'No, horse manure is what they usually use.'
Oh I do love a conversation about poo at 8.35 am whilst trying to navigate myself and 2 kids (because they never look where they're going) through all the other parents and children all aiming for the school!
Have a lovely day everybody!
xx
Age old comforts
As I approach 40 (not quite yet but near enough!) I find comfort in certain things, that as a younger person, I would never have considered. These include Sloggi underwear, Hotter footwear and memory foam mattress topper and pillows!
I've got to compare Sloggi underwear to that of maternity underwear! You put it on and suddenly realise how uncomfortable you've been for months!
Similar with Hotter footwear to be honest, I don't care if all the styles have Velcro on, they're super comfy!
And as for the memory foam, I don't know why we didn't try them before!
While I sit her and wonder how long it will be before I need a blanket, rocking chair and woolly slippers, I hope you all have a good day!
xx
I've got to compare Sloggi underwear to that of maternity underwear! You put it on and suddenly realise how uncomfortable you've been for months!
Similar with Hotter footwear to be honest, I don't care if all the styles have Velcro on, they're super comfy!
And as for the memory foam, I don't know why we didn't try them before!
While I sit her and wonder how long it will be before I need a blanket, rocking chair and woolly slippers, I hope you all have a good day!
xx
Sunday 24 September 2017
THE conversation
I guess there comes a time when every parent gets asked this question by their child, but why are the most tricky to answer questions always asked at a point when you're least expecting it!
So I'm sat there looking at the tablet trying to decide on which red wine to put on my next Tesco order, and 7-year old is sat there reading, when the question to beat all questions is asked by 7-year-old - 'Mummy what's sex?!!'
As tempting as it was to just say 'ask Daddy' or 'why don't you ask your teacher tomorrow!' (whilst wondering how quickly Tesco can deliver!) I actually said 'we'll have a conversation later.' Followed by 'what book are you reading?!!' Was only a Jacqueline Wilson school book actually.
7-year-old then proceeds to sit there saying 'sex, sex, sex!' As I'm trying so hard not to laugh I of course have to remind her again that we'll have this conversation later and then disappear to the kitchen so I can silently have hysterics and try to work out the best way to explain this subject!
So I expect you're all wondering how I eventually explained this subject?? Well, rightly or wrongly, I think I'll leave you all wondering!! However, please be reassured that I did give her a brief, age appropriate explanation and advised her that she will undoubtedly learn about it in more detail at school one day!!
Before I go, I think I should add an earlier question from 7-year-old which is equally funny!! 'Mummy what's a p*ss artist?!!' Read in the same offending book as above! However, the word was actually PSYCHIATRIST!!
xx
So I'm sat there looking at the tablet trying to decide on which red wine to put on my next Tesco order, and 7-year old is sat there reading, when the question to beat all questions is asked by 7-year-old - 'Mummy what's sex?!!'
As tempting as it was to just say 'ask Daddy' or 'why don't you ask your teacher tomorrow!' (whilst wondering how quickly Tesco can deliver!) I actually said 'we'll have a conversation later.' Followed by 'what book are you reading?!!' Was only a Jacqueline Wilson school book actually.
7-year-old then proceeds to sit there saying 'sex, sex, sex!' As I'm trying so hard not to laugh I of course have to remind her again that we'll have this conversation later and then disappear to the kitchen so I can silently have hysterics and try to work out the best way to explain this subject!
So I expect you're all wondering how I eventually explained this subject?? Well, rightly or wrongly, I think I'll leave you all wondering!! However, please be reassured that I did give her a brief, age appropriate explanation and advised her that she will undoubtedly learn about it in more detail at school one day!!
Before I go, I think I should add an earlier question from 7-year-old which is equally funny!! 'Mummy what's a p*ss artist?!!' Read in the same offending book as above! However, the word was actually PSYCHIATRIST!!
xx
Thursday 21 September 2017
Endless questions
Having an academic 7-year-old growing up before your eyes is one thing but nobody prepares you for the endless curiosity in the form of never ending questioning!
Every other word she reads results in 'what does it mean?'
Then there's the daily questions such as -
Where have you been today Mummy?
What time is Daddy coming home?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Usually directed at younger brother!
Can we have prawn crackers?
What's for dinner?
What time is dinner?
What time are you going to bed?
Can I watch the Bake Off?
When does 'Strictly' start?
Is twilight after sunset?
Is dawn in the morning?
Then there's the more taxing subjects such as -
What is your soul?
Do you think the Tooth Fairy is real?
Are you sure Santa is real?
How do babies get in your tummy?
And God forbid anyone buys her a puzzle book! You would think with all the question asking that she'd be an extremely intelligent 7-year-old by now, but the truth is that for every puzzle the sound of 'I don't get it' rings out through the house and I try to hide!
Apologies if I'm scaring parents with younger children, with what's potentially to come! I prescribe coffee and / or wine!
xx
Every other word she reads results in 'what does it mean?'
Then there's the daily questions such as -
Where have you been today Mummy?
What time is Daddy coming home?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Usually directed at younger brother!
Can we have prawn crackers?
What's for dinner?
What time is dinner?
What time are you going to bed?
Can I watch the Bake Off?
When does 'Strictly' start?
Is twilight after sunset?
Is dawn in the morning?
Then there's the more taxing subjects such as -
What is your soul?
Do you think the Tooth Fairy is real?
Are you sure Santa is real?
How do babies get in your tummy?
And God forbid anyone buys her a puzzle book! You would think with all the question asking that she'd be an extremely intelligent 7-year-old by now, but the truth is that for every puzzle the sound of 'I don't get it' rings out through the house and I try to hide!
Apologies if I'm scaring parents with younger children, with what's potentially to come! I prescribe coffee and / or wine!
xx
Wednesday 20 September 2017
20th September 2017
On picking 4-year-old up from school, he promptly falls over his own feet, somehow tripping over his bag strap too, face first in front of me! Luckily 9 times out if 10 he bounces!
Then later, upon taking 4-year-old's trousers off ready for a bath, the entire contents of the school's gravel and playground dirt fall out!
Currently sat here trying to negotiate with 4-year-old to eat his chicken nuggets otherwise he won't be able to look at dinosaur pictures on the laptop, and wondering what sort of karate moves will be required to get him to bed later!
Thankfully since starting school, he's exhausted so once in bed, after stories (and countless conversations which go something like '5 stories tonight Mummy.' 'No just 2 and one of those is your school book.' 'How about 4 stories?' And so on!) He tends to fall asleep relatively quickly.
Does anyone else's little one never stay under the covers? Is it a boy thing? Because my daughter is fine. But will be investing in thick pyjamas for 4-year-old for winter.
Have a lovely evening all. Xx
Then later, upon taking 4-year-old's trousers off ready for a bath, the entire contents of the school's gravel and playground dirt fall out!
Currently sat here trying to negotiate with 4-year-old to eat his chicken nuggets otherwise he won't be able to look at dinosaur pictures on the laptop, and wondering what sort of karate moves will be required to get him to bed later!
Thankfully since starting school, he's exhausted so once in bed, after stories (and countless conversations which go something like '5 stories tonight Mummy.' 'No just 2 and one of those is your school book.' 'How about 4 stories?' And so on!) He tends to fall asleep relatively quickly.
Does anyone else's little one never stay under the covers? Is it a boy thing? Because my daughter is fine. But will be investing in thick pyjamas for 4-year-old for winter.
Have a lovely evening all. Xx
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Imagination versus reality
When I started this blog idea I invisaged sitting in Costa coffee with my laptop on the same routine morning each week, whilst the kids are at school. Maybe one day that will be the case!
In reality, the last couple of weeks it's mainly been writing the post on my phone on a different day of the week (it's Wednesday at the moment but i won't publish this before Tuesday!) because I don't want to forget the inspiration for the post, and i'm not using my laptop much because its Wi-Fi connection even at home is so poor I daren't try it on a public wifi spot!
On another subject, when I imagined my smallest child starting school, I saw freedom on the days I don't work and my eyes lit up with images of the above and many different child free coffees!
In reality I miss my littlest sidekick and the noise he creates! Tuesday is his first full day at school. Although I have lunch plans on Tuesdays it will be strange for the first time in 7 years not to have a child going on, talking incessantly, moaning, asking to go in the toy shop etc! For the first time in 7 years I will actually be able to talk to my Mum while we have lunch, and may be even try out different cafes instead of the same old one where we were comfortable because it had space, toilets, and a children's play area.
Well now it is actually Tuesday and it was weird watching him walk into school for his 1st full day. He walked in without me too. 😔
So I'll sit here with my latte, watching people park badly outside, hoping both my kidlets are having a good time!
Xx
In reality, the last couple of weeks it's mainly been writing the post on my phone on a different day of the week (it's Wednesday at the moment but i won't publish this before Tuesday!) because I don't want to forget the inspiration for the post, and i'm not using my laptop much because its Wi-Fi connection even at home is so poor I daren't try it on a public wifi spot!
On another subject, when I imagined my smallest child starting school, I saw freedom on the days I don't work and my eyes lit up with images of the above and many different child free coffees!
In reality I miss my littlest sidekick and the noise he creates! Tuesday is his first full day at school. Although I have lunch plans on Tuesdays it will be strange for the first time in 7 years not to have a child going on, talking incessantly, moaning, asking to go in the toy shop etc! For the first time in 7 years I will actually be able to talk to my Mum while we have lunch, and may be even try out different cafes instead of the same old one where we were comfortable because it had space, toilets, and a children's play area.
Well now it is actually Tuesday and it was weird watching him walk into school for his 1st full day. He walked in without me too. 😔
So I'll sit here with my latte, watching people park badly outside, hoping both my kidlets are having a good time!
Xx
Tuesday 12 September 2017
The sounds you don't normally hear
Well this both kids at school lark will take some getting used to I think! It should get easier from now on as I'm back to work, only leaving me the 2 normal days off a week that I'm used to. However last week (having all week off) after the chaos that is the school run, but being back home by 8.50 to a silent house is very strange!
I could actually hear the fridge! The filter in the fish tank! And more annoyingly, my own thoughts!
So I have a feeling that to begin with the house will be spotless!
And I intend to make my Tuesday mornings in Costa publishing my latest posts, a regular occurrence. By sitting here amongst all the other mothers who have just done the school run and are enjoying their coffees either alone or with their younger children, I can quite happily write this and not be bothered by the noise after all, I regularly drown out the noise of 2 children!
For the Wednesday mornings I will take to drinking Nescafe Azera instant coffees (they come in take away cups and you just add water! Sad I know but I do love coffee in a take away cup!) and watching 'Fraiser!' When my son was a baby I used to watch Fraiser a lot of week day mornings whilst he was asleep.
So happy morning coffees everyone!! Xx
I could actually hear the fridge! The filter in the fish tank! And more annoyingly, my own thoughts!
So I have a feeling that to begin with the house will be spotless!
And I intend to make my Tuesday mornings in Costa publishing my latest posts, a regular occurrence. By sitting here amongst all the other mothers who have just done the school run and are enjoying their coffees either alone or with their younger children, I can quite happily write this and not be bothered by the noise after all, I regularly drown out the noise of 2 children!
For the Wednesday mornings I will take to drinking Nescafe Azera instant coffees (they come in take away cups and you just add water! Sad I know but I do love coffee in a take away cup!) and watching 'Fraiser!' When my son was a baby I used to watch Fraiser a lot of week day mornings whilst he was asleep.
So happy morning coffees everyone!! Xx
Sunday 10 September 2017
Little Bow Heart
I told my 7 year old if she wrote a story I would put it on my blog, so here it is. The story of Little Bow Heart. I hope you can all see the pictures enough to read it.
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Is It Actually Peace at last?
Originally when I started writing this post, 6 1/2 weeks ago at the beginning of the school holidays, (with the plan to publish it today) it went something like this.....
The picture above i took of the wall in a cafe we were in at the beginning of the summer holiday. It's got lots of reasons for buying a coffee. The bottom line, middle, 'because I got the kids to school on time today' is my excuse today!! 😉
There are many other reasons/excuses I use to buy myself a latte but today i find myself feeling in need of one. After nearly 7 weeks of the kids being on holiday, today they BOTH went to school. My son for the first time. I will come to get used to them both being there and will probably wonder how I ever got anything done as for the last 7 years one of them has always been by my side.
Sending all my fellow parents seeing their little ones off to school for the first time today a friendly emotional virtual hug!! 💜
However, now we are here, and although I have no exact idea what the future will look like, I find as I sit here having the latte I've dreamed about for the last 7 weeks, I might need to refer to my previous blog post 'creativity takes courage' and remind myself that you only need to be brave for less than 20 seconds to change something. Our biggest fear is the future and that it will be the same, so if you don't want it to be the same.....................................?
This remains unanswered at the moment, but I feel the tide is turning at that one day soon it will all be a bit different.. ♥♥
Saturday 26 August 2017
The Great Folkestone Bake Off!
With 3 year old turning 4 this week and a couple of celebrations as a result of this, it has been like The Bake Off round here!
In the past 9 days I have made blackberry and apple crumble twice, 2 chocolate birthday cakes and 12 cup cakes! Photo evidence below! I think all were a success.
I've got to admit that, although all home made, the dinosaur toppers were purchased from Amazon! Very impressed at around £3 for 12 from The Party Company. I also cheated on the green icing, Tesco ready to roll!
Got 7 year old involved in all baking, with tempers running high at the point of trying to get her to use a ruler to make the '4' stencil used for the green 4 on one of the cakes! And once we had found ruler, let's just say I hope in year 3 at school they teach them to use a ruler and what the actual point of it is!!
So after having now 4 year old's birthday play date this afternoon I now need a sit down but unfortunately the hoover is calling me!!
Have a good weekend everybody. Xx
In the past 9 days I have made blackberry and apple crumble twice, 2 chocolate birthday cakes and 12 cup cakes! Photo evidence below! I think all were a success.
I've got to admit that, although all home made, the dinosaur toppers were purchased from Amazon! Very impressed at around £3 for 12 from The Party Company. I also cheated on the green icing, Tesco ready to roll!
Got 7 year old involved in all baking, with tempers running high at the point of trying to get her to use a ruler to make the '4' stencil used for the green 4 on one of the cakes! And once we had found ruler, let's just say I hope in year 3 at school they teach them to use a ruler and what the actual point of it is!!
So after having now 4 year old's birthday play date this afternoon I now need a sit down but unfortunately the hoover is calling me!!
Have a good weekend everybody. Xx
Sunday 20 August 2017
Kent in bloom
Ok so the pictures in this post are only from 1 garden, but it is in Kent and it is definitely in bloom!
I don't know the technical names for them all either but they're very pretty!
As mentioned in my previous post 'Not just a pink plate' this is Grandma and Grandpa's garden.
For the time being 'gardening' is not my thing, yet anyway. However I am quite happy wandering around on a Saturday afternoon, while the kids are busy wearing Grandma and Grandpa out, taking pictures of all the pretties! This includes aiming the camera and waiting there like the Paparazzi with the hope of eventually getting these next 2 shots!
This just reminds me of being this age and running round my grandparent's garden, getting lost amongst the plants.
The game they were playing at the time, was 'café.' They run back and forth to/from the sandpit, filling all different containers with sand and serving it to me and Grandma saying it's apple pie, or a latte or something!
I do like the way that Grandpa was the only one who was actually charged for ordering something at this café! My son has high end prices as well, £6 for an ice cream!
As always, when we left to come home, we left with a selection of odd shaped carrots, some blackberries and apples and there was also an offer for corn on the cob! All home grown, the carrots by the kids themselves as they each have a little garden box at Grandma and Grandpa's house. 2 planting boxes side by side and the differences between the 2 is amazing. My daughter's sunflower is 3 times the size of her, but my son's is short and hasn't flowered yet. My son is the one who is harvesting a brilliant crop of odd shaped carrots, but my daughter has yet to pull one out of the soil that is bigger than a pin! My daughter's lettuces got eaten by slugs but my son's flourished.
The kids have loved growing all these things though.
Happy Sunday evening everyone, I'm off to cook some odd shaped carrots! xx
Sunday 13 August 2017
Not just a pink plate
It's amazing how the sight of a pink plate can take you right back to your childhood in an instant!
This pink plate to be precise.
It was my Grandmother's and when she passed away in 2007 it went to a cousin of hers. Now that she is no longer here either, it was at my parent's house.
The second I saw it I was back in my Grandparent's house. I can still see every inch of it. The green bathroom, the way the living room seemed to feel comfy even before you had sat down, the seemingly massive dining table, my Grandfather's paintings and artwork everywhere, the many pots with paint brushes standing in them in his studio, the conservatory with the giant grape vine all round the ceiling and a garden that felt like you could run round it for hours and never be found, so many hiding places.
These days of course, Grandma and Grandpa's house, for our children, is my parent's house. The rocking horse made by my grandfather now resides at Mum and Dads and is frequently used by our children.
38/33 years of growing up memories brought back on the sight of a pink plate! I can even smell the Sunday dinners as a child in the dining room!
I think the last time i was there was probably just after we got married in 2006, my husband of course I met in my grandparent's garden 2001! But that's another story!
I can only hope that our children grow up making as many precious memories as we did at their Grandma and Grandpa's house. Also that the various handmade toys that link directly to our Grandparents such as the rocking horse, hobby horse (named Marmite!) and dolls house continue to be played with for generations to come. Xx
This pink plate to be precise.
It was my Grandmother's and when she passed away in 2007 it went to a cousin of hers. Now that she is no longer here either, it was at my parent's house.
The second I saw it I was back in my Grandparent's house. I can still see every inch of it. The green bathroom, the way the living room seemed to feel comfy even before you had sat down, the seemingly massive dining table, my Grandfather's paintings and artwork everywhere, the many pots with paint brushes standing in them in his studio, the conservatory with the giant grape vine all round the ceiling and a garden that felt like you could run round it for hours and never be found, so many hiding places.
These days of course, Grandma and Grandpa's house, for our children, is my parent's house. The rocking horse made by my grandfather now resides at Mum and Dads and is frequently used by our children.
But to myself and my brother, it's somewhere totally different, different sight, smell, everything. A little old bungalow that in the end, if you had touched it with your little finger it would have fallen down, and of course now is no longer there.
38/33 years of growing up memories brought back on the sight of a pink plate! I can even smell the Sunday dinners as a child in the dining room!
I think the last time i was there was probably just after we got married in 2006, my husband of course I met in my grandparent's garden 2001! But that's another story!
I can only hope that our children grow up making as many precious memories as we did at their Grandma and Grandpa's house. Also that the various handmade toys that link directly to our Grandparents such as the rocking horse, hobby horse (named Marmite!) and dolls house continue to be played with for generations to come. Xx
Thursday 10 August 2017
Not another rainy day!
Oh the great British summer time, particularly in the school summer holidays! Why must it be an endless stream of warm rain in the various forms of drizzle, pouring hard, chucking it down, raining cats and dogs and the very illusive just straight forward rain!
And in this country it is always coupled with gale force wind making umbrellas impossible to hold up, and yet because it's August it's too warm for rain coats with hoods.
So today we ventured out to meet a friend in which we got drenched, soaked and generally soggy right through! Not helped by 3 year old falling into a puddle! Right in, properly, face first! Thanks to his waterproof coat his top half mainly stayed dry, but his jeans and shoes were soaked. He then proceeded to 'squeak' round town (wet shoes!)
Upon getting back home and realising the rain was unlikely to clear, it has been yet another afternoon of kids DVD's.
Just as I think everything is calm, 3 year starts coughing, whilst rolling around on the floor, laughing and eating at the same time, causing him to vomit all over the coffee table and my unsuspecting flip flops! (Thankfully because it's chucking it down today I wasn't wearing them at the time!)
He's fine of course, thinks the whole thing is hysterical!
To finish this post on a more 'cute' child note, for obvious reasons put 3 year old in shower, after a few minutes wonder why not much splashing or hysteria is coming from there, investigate to find he has put the shower head on top of his toy plastic tea pot so the water constantly runs out of the spout. He is knelt down with his bottom in the air and his head on the shower floor. I ask what he is doing to the reply 'I'm washing my own hair Mummy!'
Have a good evening everyone.
xx
And in this country it is always coupled with gale force wind making umbrellas impossible to hold up, and yet because it's August it's too warm for rain coats with hoods.
So today we ventured out to meet a friend in which we got drenched, soaked and generally soggy right through! Not helped by 3 year old falling into a puddle! Right in, properly, face first! Thanks to his waterproof coat his top half mainly stayed dry, but his jeans and shoes were soaked. He then proceeded to 'squeak' round town (wet shoes!)
Upon getting back home and realising the rain was unlikely to clear, it has been yet another afternoon of kids DVD's.
Just as I think everything is calm, 3 year starts coughing, whilst rolling around on the floor, laughing and eating at the same time, causing him to vomit all over the coffee table and my unsuspecting flip flops! (Thankfully because it's chucking it down today I wasn't wearing them at the time!)
He's fine of course, thinks the whole thing is hysterical!
To finish this post on a more 'cute' child note, for obvious reasons put 3 year old in shower, after a few minutes wonder why not much splashing or hysteria is coming from there, investigate to find he has put the shower head on top of his toy plastic tea pot so the water constantly runs out of the spout. He is knelt down with his bottom in the air and his head on the shower floor. I ask what he is doing to the reply 'I'm washing my own hair Mummy!'
Have a good evening everyone.
xx
Wednesday 9 August 2017
Footloose and pushchair free!
For the first time in 7 years I find myself pushchair and changing bag free! It's a whole new world quite frankly!
I had forgotten escalators and stairs existed to be honest! It's a novelty to be able to go the quickest route upstairs in a shop!
Although I must admit that having a pushchair is a useful way to barge other people out of the way, and having somewhere to put the bags when shopping is something I'm already beginning to miss!
Then there's the fact that in more recent months the pushchair became a good bargaining chip with my 3 year old in that if he wasn't behaving when wandering around town, being strapped in the pushchair was the threat to get him to walk like a normal human being!
Next comes the lack of changing bag now toilet training has been successfully completed. It's lovely to only have my handbag with me (plus 2 kids of course!)
Although in this typical British summer holiday of one minute warm rain and the next minute baking sunshine, I find I need to carry cardigans and rain coats for all of us when we're out, plus a bottle of water and all my normal handbag items. A large handbag is essential and when looking for the one item that has undoubtedly fallen right to the bottom, I feel like I have Mary Poppins' handbag, pulling out every other item first! I'm surprised when there isn't a hat stand in there!
Before I go I'd like to recommend a pushchair to anyone interested. The Recaro Easylife.
Absolutely brilliant little buggy. Lightweight, folds very small (fitted in a Peugeot 107 boot without having to remove parcel shelf). I had expected that with the weight of my 3 year old in it that it might not be easy to push (but we only bought it to use on holiday), but actually it's quite the opposite. It's easy to manoeuvre, has a shopping basket you can actually get to (not so easy on some buggys), a decent hood and straps and came with rain cover.
To all my mummy friends who have smaller children, or who are still expecting, don't worry the amount of baggage and boot space needed just to pop to the supermarket for 1 item, will decrease one day! However don't rush it, time flies, blink and you'll miss it. Much love. xx ❤❤
Sunday 6 August 2017
For the love of Folkestone
I can honestly say that whether you're a family, a couple or a single person, there's plenty to keep you amused in this seaside town.
Today we started out parking at the Leas Cliff Hall as it's only £1 for 4 hours. From there you're in easy reach of pretty much everything. We walked over to the Leas and down the zig zag path starting by the band stand, to the Lower Leas Coastal Park. The path ends at the amphitheatre. Turning right from here you walk into the children's play area which boasts brilliant slides, sand pits, zip wire and lots more. There is also a café and toilets.
However, today we turned left at the amphitheatre and walked through the other half of the Coastal Park, there are lots of paths, bridges, bbq spots, and direct access to the beach. We joined the path onto the beach and then proceeded along the new Board Walk, a wooden path made from railway sleepers across the pebble beach. Eventually it will link to the Harbour Arm but is unfinished at present.
From along the sea front at this point, or from the top of the Leas, you can also see the recently retired Leas Lifts. Originally installed in 1885 it was a fully working funicular railway up and down the cliff. Unfortunately it closed permanently earlier this year.
After cutting back across the pebbles to the main path we ventured onto the Harbour Arm, like a pier but runs alongside the old harbour railway station. They are working on it at the moment but it will be possible to walk along the old platform eventually, as well as walk across the old railway bridge to the other end of the harbour. Walking along the Arm there are various eateries and a champagne bar at the end in the lighthouse. There is live music most weekends throughout the summer.
If eating on the Arm is not to your requirements, then you can, as we have done many a time, walk back round the main harbour where there are a couple of pubs and a couple of little wooden cafes (usually only open in summer time) where you can sit and eat/drink looking over the water.
There is regularly art work to be spotted all over Folkestone. At present there is a pink house floating amongst the boats in the harbour! It is part of an art installation from the Folkestone Triennial which launches officially on 2nd September 2017. The Triennial commissions acclaimed artists to create pieces for the town. This years theme is 'double edge' and will look into ideas around a sense of place. It runs until 5th November 2017.
The harbour also has a fountain which the children love playing in during most weathers it would seem!
Past the fountain and through the arches there are various stalls selling seafood, a gift shop, and the restaurant Rocksalt. We walked along past all this to the sands. A massive stretch of golden sand and when the tide is out, you can go rock pooling at the far end.
Following a brief bit of rock pooling we made our way back along the harbour, past the fountain, and across the road where you can walk up the Old High Street to the main town centre. Take in the quirky independent shops and cafes. Just before you reach the top of this street, take a right into the car park, sounds strange but if you have kids, there is a brilliant slide at the side of the car park!
Moving on to the main town centre. It has high street shops and various cafes, bars etc. Although there is a Tesco Express and a small Sainsburys, the main supermarkets are outside the town.
Folkestone has various bigger shops such as Home Bargains, Pets at Home, Sainsburys, The Range etc a short drive from the town centre.
Moving along to Sandgate, we can now boast that we have 'Mudpie' pottery painting in the Golden Valley. Just walk in, or book a table, kids parties are also popular, and paint some pottery, or make a teddy bear. This studio also does some evenings where adults can go and learn to use a potters wheel.
Down the hill from the Golden Valley, there's easy access to the beach, and walk along to the left and you'll reach the Lower Leas Coastal Park from the opposite direction. Sandgate High Street has a few shops such as antiques, and a few lovely little cafes. On the beach there's 'The Boat House' which serves lunches, ice creams, coffees etc in the summer. Sandgate also has a great fish and chip shop 'The Little Fish Shop' which has a small restaurant as well.
Well I hope I've done my best to sell Folkestone to you!
Happy exploring!
xx
Saturday 5 August 2017
Taking the kids to the pub part 2!
Following my post from 2 weeks ago, this evening we went to the Pub again and this time had dinner there also.
I think we can all say we had a lovely evening despite the compulsory spilling of 3 year olds water right across the table, dropping of many chips on the floor, bumping of head on door handle when entering the toilets (3 year old again of course!) and general drunkenness of both the children!
Of course we went through several stages of emotion whilst there including getting the drinks in, bored, extatically happy and oh God what planet am i on!!
It is concerning when they've only been drinking a fruit juice and a water the amount of giggling and hysteria that is currently going on! 3 year old has ice cream in his hair and 7 year old practically fell down the steps coming out of pub!
Now just to finish off the evening, 3 year old has just headbutted his sister knocking her wobbly tooth out!! She now looks like she's been in a fight! So all in all a normal evening out with today's youth!!
Cheers!
Xx
I think we can all say we had a lovely evening despite the compulsory spilling of 3 year olds water right across the table, dropping of many chips on the floor, bumping of head on door handle when entering the toilets (3 year old again of course!) and general drunkenness of both the children!
Of course we went through several stages of emotion whilst there including getting the drinks in, bored, extatically happy and oh God what planet am i on!!
It is concerning when they've only been drinking a fruit juice and a water the amount of giggling and hysteria that is currently going on! 3 year old has ice cream in his hair and 7 year old practically fell down the steps coming out of pub!
Now just to finish off the evening, 3 year old has just headbutted his sister knocking her wobbly tooth out!! She now looks like she's been in a fight! So all in all a normal evening out with today's youth!!
Cheers!
Xx
Thursday 3 August 2017
Tantrums - 3rd August 2017
So today, well, just another day of 3 year old throwing tantrums and crying at everything.
We've had tantrums over not wanting to walk, not wanting to leave the beach (despite looming black clouds and gale force wind), not wanting to leave the fountain at the harbour, because he couldn't see the fish tank in the café we were in, not going in a shop where there's toys, not wanting to walk down some stairs, not wanting to get out of the shower, not wanting to put a t-shirt on, not having the exact amount of crisps on his plate that he required, couldn't open a yoghurt pot, and most recently because apparently Power Rangers Dino Supercharge isn't exciting enough!
I hope you all have had a more exciting day!
Included in todays excitement was finding Buzz Lightyear's arm in my daughters underwear draw! For those who remember my previous post (30th July) 3 year old used Buzz Lightyear to hit 7 year old, and lost an arm in the process! Buzz Lightyear lost an arm that is, not my son or daughter!
Other events this evening have been approaching 3 year old with caution as he threatened to throw a whole cup of milk down the sink! Literally had to crawl across living room floor, like approaching a wild animal, to try and extract cup from 3 year old's hands without a spillage!
So I think a well earned glass of wine is on the cards tonight!
Have a good evening everybody!
xx
We've had tantrums over not wanting to walk, not wanting to leave the beach (despite looming black clouds and gale force wind), not wanting to leave the fountain at the harbour, because he couldn't see the fish tank in the café we were in, not going in a shop where there's toys, not wanting to walk down some stairs, not wanting to get out of the shower, not wanting to put a t-shirt on, not having the exact amount of crisps on his plate that he required, couldn't open a yoghurt pot, and most recently because apparently Power Rangers Dino Supercharge isn't exciting enough!
I hope you all have had a more exciting day!
Included in todays excitement was finding Buzz Lightyear's arm in my daughters underwear draw! For those who remember my previous post (30th July) 3 year old used Buzz Lightyear to hit 7 year old, and lost an arm in the process! Buzz Lightyear lost an arm that is, not my son or daughter!
Other events this evening have been approaching 3 year old with caution as he threatened to throw a whole cup of milk down the sink! Literally had to crawl across living room floor, like approaching a wild animal, to try and extract cup from 3 year old's hands without a spillage!
So I think a well earned glass of wine is on the cards tonight!
Have a good evening everybody!
xx
Tuesday 1 August 2017
Creativity takes courage
I saw this on a wall in a Kent seaside town at the weekend, and it reminds me of something I heard. 'You only have to have courage for 20 seconds.' In honesty, I heard this in the film 'We Bought a Zoo' but it's still true!
A month ago I was brave for less than 10 seconds when I posted my Maternal Instincts Facebook page publicly. Thank you to everyone who has read it and those who have shared it and are following it.
Another film quote coming up I'm afraid! 'There's no time like the present and there's no present like the time. Our biggest fear is the future and that it will be the same.' So if you don't want it to be the same and you have an idea, then creativity takes courage of less than 20 seconds!
xx💗💗
Do you wake up tired?
I was asked the other day, 'do you ever wake up tired?'
No of course not, I wake up refreshed and full of the joys of spring!
Surprisingly, that's not what I actually said! I have 2 children, of course I wake up tired! 3 year old has never slept well, and still wakes up during the night now although not as bad since he's stopped having bottles through the night, presumably because he's drier.
With more than one child, even when the regular insomniac does decide to have a good night, the other one will then decide to have a disturbed night. The saying is true, 'if it's not one it's the other!'
I'm actually finding it tougher to sleep since 3 year has improved at night. Despite 2 mattress toppers on the bed it still feels like I'm laying on concrete sometimes. Also how many pillows? Advice please.
My theory is that I got so used to being woken up regularly by 3 year old that since he's slept better, I start off sleeping better, therefore when I am disturbed it's tougher. I can barely put one foot in front of the other trying to get into his bedroom without bumping into too many walls and doors! For some reason all this makes it tougher to get back to sleep as well. When you're disturbed regularly by a new born (or 3 year old for that matter) you're so tired that you fall back to sleep each time as soon as you look at your bed.
So here we are on 1st August 2017, 22 days until my littlest one is 4 and about to start school and I'm still complaining about sleep deprivation!
Have a good 1st August everyone, keep up the caffeine!
xx
No of course not, I wake up refreshed and full of the joys of spring!
Surprisingly, that's not what I actually said! I have 2 children, of course I wake up tired! 3 year old has never slept well, and still wakes up during the night now although not as bad since he's stopped having bottles through the night, presumably because he's drier.
With more than one child, even when the regular insomniac does decide to have a good night, the other one will then decide to have a disturbed night. The saying is true, 'if it's not one it's the other!'
I'm actually finding it tougher to sleep since 3 year has improved at night. Despite 2 mattress toppers on the bed it still feels like I'm laying on concrete sometimes. Also how many pillows? Advice please.
My theory is that I got so used to being woken up regularly by 3 year old that since he's slept better, I start off sleeping better, therefore when I am disturbed it's tougher. I can barely put one foot in front of the other trying to get into his bedroom without bumping into too many walls and doors! For some reason all this makes it tougher to get back to sleep as well. When you're disturbed regularly by a new born (or 3 year old for that matter) you're so tired that you fall back to sleep each time as soon as you look at your bed.
So here we are on 1st August 2017, 22 days until my littlest one is 4 and about to start school and I'm still complaining about sleep deprivation!
Have a good 1st August everyone, keep up the caffeine!
xx
Sunday 30 July 2017
30th July 2017
30th July 2017
All was going so well this morning until until 3 year old hit 7 year old with Buzz Lightyear! Now both kids have the grump.
Tried to get 7 year old interested in her school maths thing online but turns out she's better at that on my phone or the tablet than she is on the laptop, that's 2017 for you!
So try to get the kids playing together, 7 year old starts a game of hide and seek. Don't think 3 year old has grasped this game! He counts to roughly 10, shouts out 'coming ready or not' then sits down in front of TV! 7 year old eventually comes back downstairs confused!
Then 7 year old starts counting, 3 year old runs off supposedly to hide. When she gets to 20 she says 'coming ready or not' starts going upstairs to shouts from 3 year old 'I'm in the toilet!' Turns out he's actually 'on' not 'in' the toilet doing his business!
Whilst out this afternoon, 3 year old has the right grump over just about everything until he finds a stick to carry around then he's happy (it's like taking a retriever out!)
Happy Sunday everyone!
Xx
All was going so well this morning until until 3 year old hit 7 year old with Buzz Lightyear! Now both kids have the grump.
Tried to get 7 year old interested in her school maths thing online but turns out she's better at that on my phone or the tablet than she is on the laptop, that's 2017 for you!
So try to get the kids playing together, 7 year old starts a game of hide and seek. Don't think 3 year old has grasped this game! He counts to roughly 10, shouts out 'coming ready or not' then sits down in front of TV! 7 year old eventually comes back downstairs confused!
Then 7 year old starts counting, 3 year old runs off supposedly to hide. When she gets to 20 she says 'coming ready or not' starts going upstairs to shouts from 3 year old 'I'm in the toilet!' Turns out he's actually 'on' not 'in' the toilet doing his business!
Whilst out this afternoon, 3 year old has the right grump over just about everything until he finds a stick to carry around then he's happy (it's like taking a retriever out!)
Happy Sunday everyone!
Xx
Saturday 29 July 2017
The Harry Potter Similarities
The Harry Potter Similarities
Part 1
Although it would be logical to note the similarities between my 3 year old son and Spot from The Good Dinosaur -
running round wearing only pants, barking and howling at people, obsessed with dinosaurs - today I write what makes him similar to a Harry Potter character! Dobby the House Elf!
So here goes.
Dobby the House Elf and My 3 Year Old Son!
Dobby comes into Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets jumping on the bed, all beds in our house are treated like trampolines by 3 year old!
3 year old can regularly be seen head butting various furniture and bashing himself with objects, although if I catch him using the side lamp in our living room to hit himself over the head he will be in trouble!
3 year old has short attention span when it comes to creating a drawing master piece or something but can be easily impressed by a sock!
When asking 3 year old questions such as 'where did you put your shoes' or 'why is that biscuit on the record player' answer is mostly 'I cannot say!'
The final similarity is Mummy, Daddy and big sister can be seen running after 3 year old shouting 'get back here!'
Oh and as a note I'd like to think 3 year old won't ever iron his hands or drop a cake on anyone's head!
To those reading this it's also a good idea to consider that during a bath, 3 year old has a remarkable resemblance to Gollum also!
Part 2
So while I'm here I'd also like to show some similarities between my daughter and Hermione Granger!
Hermione Granger and My 7 Year Old Daughter!
Hermione comes into Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone already looking down her nose at the boys and telling Ron he has dirt on his nose. 7 year old daughter hyperventilates at the sight of any dirt and God forbid that dirt should be on herself! Looks of disgust go across her face if 3 year old brother should be (and usually is) dirty!
7 year old loves Hermione's wavy hair and on some occasions has plaited hair when wet and left over night to create the Hermione look.
7 year old is very academic and would be more concerned about getting expelled from school than dying!
7 year old has a play Harry Potter wand (with sound effects) and is very good and pronouncing 'wingardium leviosaaaaaa!' If only 'immobulus' would work on her brother!
So there we have it, Hermione and Dobby living under the same roof!
I'm sure over time there will be many more characters I can identify them with.
XX
Part 1
Although it would be logical to note the similarities between my 3 year old son and Spot from The Good Dinosaur -
running round wearing only pants, barking and howling at people, obsessed with dinosaurs - today I write what makes him similar to a Harry Potter character! Dobby the House Elf!
So here goes.
Dobby the House Elf and My 3 Year Old Son!
Dobby comes into Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets jumping on the bed, all beds in our house are treated like trampolines by 3 year old!
3 year old can regularly be seen head butting various furniture and bashing himself with objects, although if I catch him using the side lamp in our living room to hit himself over the head he will be in trouble!
3 year old has short attention span when it comes to creating a drawing master piece or something but can be easily impressed by a sock!
When asking 3 year old questions such as 'where did you put your shoes' or 'why is that biscuit on the record player' answer is mostly 'I cannot say!'
The final similarity is Mummy, Daddy and big sister can be seen running after 3 year old shouting 'get back here!'
Oh and as a note I'd like to think 3 year old won't ever iron his hands or drop a cake on anyone's head!
To those reading this it's also a good idea to consider that during a bath, 3 year old has a remarkable resemblance to Gollum also!
Part 2
So while I'm here I'd also like to show some similarities between my daughter and Hermione Granger!
Hermione Granger and My 7 Year Old Daughter!
Hermione comes into Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone already looking down her nose at the boys and telling Ron he has dirt on his nose. 7 year old daughter hyperventilates at the sight of any dirt and God forbid that dirt should be on herself! Looks of disgust go across her face if 3 year old brother should be (and usually is) dirty!
7 year old loves Hermione's wavy hair and on some occasions has plaited hair when wet and left over night to create the Hermione look.
7 year old is very academic and would be more concerned about getting expelled from school than dying!
7 year old has a play Harry Potter wand (with sound effects) and is very good and pronouncing 'wingardium leviosaaaaaa!' If only 'immobulus' would work on her brother!
So there we have it, Hermione and Dobby living under the same roof!
I'm sure over time there will be many more characters I can identify them with.
XX
Wednesday 26 July 2017
26th July 2017
26th July 2017
Just as I think I've got nothing else to write today, 7 year old comes out with the funniest one to date!
Asked by Daddy to go and ask Mummy to explain 'nincompoop,' to which Mummy replies 'numpty, idiot, twit.' Can you see where this is going?!!
7 year old goes back to Daddy who asks 'what's a nincompoop then?' 7 year old replies 'an idiot or a tw*t!!' This is NOT what I said !!
So amongst the hysterical laughter have to explain to 7 year old that we don't use that word! And yes it's hours later and we're still laughing!
Xx
Just as I think I've got nothing else to write today, 7 year old comes out with the funniest one to date!
Asked by Daddy to go and ask Mummy to explain 'nincompoop,' to which Mummy replies 'numpty, idiot, twit.' Can you see where this is going?!!
7 year old goes back to Daddy who asks 'what's a nincompoop then?' 7 year old replies 'an idiot or a tw*t!!' This is NOT what I said !!
So amongst the hysterical laughter have to explain to 7 year old that we don't use that word! And yes it's hours later and we're still laughing!
Xx
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