It’s one and a half weeks to the school holidays and I can’t wait. Nothing has changed from the time I was a kid and school dragged time out torturously until the holidays started. Other mothers have looked at me askance for my predilection for the holidays to start. “What…you want them hanging around bugging [...]
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Mornings with kids
Posted in Honestly!, Laugh, Parenting, The Good Life, tagged chaos, crisis, Kids, madness, Mums, Parenting, routine, school mornings, toddlers on June 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
My favorite brother-in-law, Ron, (OK, my only brother-in-law) was chatting with me the other day as he folded clean laundry off the sofa. He was bemoaning the fact that the ONE thing that I am really, really obsessive compulsive about had not been included in my sister’s DNA. I am fanatical about my washing (when [...]
Bad Mother Story #96
Posted in Honestly!, Parenting, tagged bad mother, Children, Parenting on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Did I ever tell you about the time last week when in the middle of a busy supermarket aisle, with children bugging me while I was trying to choose cereal for Pete’s Sake I finally lost the plot and told them in a very, very loud voice to ‘RACK OFF!’ Only, I was thinking another thing entirely, [...]