Apr 23
Last year I wrote about my son learning to ride his motorbike by himself. Since then he’s had a bike upgrade. It went well to start with, but then he and his bike had a disagreement and we struggled to get him to ride it. If we took him down to ride on the grass …
Apr 15
After seeing all those birthday games circulating on social media, I decided a toddler version was required. All I can say is thank goodness my son didn’t arrive on his due date of 31 May!
Mar 15
How to turn an entertainment unit into a doll house, school and superhero hideout My kids have become bored with the kitchen I fashioned for them from an old entertainment unit so I figured it was time to put it to a new use. Before we started I gave myself a pat on the …
Feb 06
We’re having a pretty hot Summer here in New Zealand this year, and the humidity has been awful, so when a Kiwi celebrity asked people to tweet pictures of their humidity hair I didn’t need asking twice. Yeah, I know you all think I look fabulous, but I have to admit that I’ve been …
Feb 01
Sleep my darlings. For the love of all things chocolate, shut your eyes and go the F to sleep! My children wake up arguing with each other and this quickly disintegrates into all out war as they rush through to our room to get the coveted spot cuddled up to Daddy. The loser has to snuggle up …
Nov 26
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that my daughter has a habit of getting herself into interesting situations. Take this weekend just gone for instance. It’s been a long time since we’ve been away together as a family, so we were thrilled when our friends paid for us to fly …
Oct 31
The majority of toddlers and pre-schoolers have supreme confidence in their clothing choices. They don’t care what anyone else thinks because they know that they look good in whatever they choose to adorn themselves in. Sadly for them, their parents will attempt to stifle their creativity: “Whaddya mean I can’t wear my bathing suit to …
Oct 25
Master 4 has started threatening me when he doesn’t get his own way. Visions of his decline into immoral Gangsta activities as he grows older have me fearful for the future. Like any other parent I often question some of my parenting decisions, but how was I to know that it would all go so …
Oct 11
Today at the playground I cried. I cried while watching a little girl, 18 months old, climbing, running across beams and sliding; full of energy and not a care in the World. I cried because my two-and-three-quarter-year-old daughter used to be just like that. I cried because the ladders Briannah used to scamper up were …
Aug 30
“Gosh, now that Miss 2 is toilet trained I really miss cleaning up all her little accidents; and now that she’s only waking one or two times a night instead of five, I’m getting too much sleep,” thought my subconscious – apparently. Most people would give themselves a congratulatory pat on the back and turn to …
