It was Harry Potter that started the obsession with fantastical adventurous stories at our house. And my boy just came in and plonked down the fifth book on my desk, finished! We are trying to pace him a little, since he’s not quite nine, and we’d like him to grow up and mature as the […]
Eight Awesome ways to procrastinate
I have achieved very little this week. Well apart from keeping four children alive and mostly happy, apart from that momentous feat, the main thing I have done this week is procrastinate. I am very good at procrastinating… very, very good. If you need a little help with the whole procrastinating thing, here are eight […]
Ten Things I Know about Parenting Right Now.
This is a photo of my four, awesome children. They are currently aged 5, 8, 12 and 12 (that is not a typo, the girl ones are twins). And these are the things I know about parenting right now, in this moment…. 1. If all your kids have shoes on both their feet five minutes […]
Eight Awesome Podcasts for Parents
Ever since my very lovely mobile phone company decided they should gift with me with some extra data I’ve been podcast obsessed. I can’t hang the laundry unless I have a decent podcast to list to, and I have started making up excused to drive somewhere on my own so I can crank out another […]
Can’t. Sleep.
What the heck is wrong with me! Ok sure, sometimes I struggle to fall asleep, but once I’m out I’m out, till someone, or something, wakes me up. Not this week. This week has been more like this… Sometime in the middle of the night. I’m awake. Why am I awake? Do I dare open […]
Ten Cool Sciencey Things My Kids Love!
My eight year old likes science. And because my eight year old likes science, so does my five year old, because he likes to like what his big brother likes. My 12 year olds tell me they don’t like science, but then they ooh and ahh over the sciencey things the boys and I find, […]
Ten Reasons I am NOT Trying to Re-establish a Routine Before School Starts
I posted this blurry photo of my sleeping child on instagram the other day… In fact when I posted the photo, all four of my children were asleep in their beds, and it was 8:50am. As I watched my boy blissfully snoring his head off I had a twinge of panic… I should wake him, […]
Ten Things I Will Care Less About This Year
I’ve got four kids, and a husband, a house, a garden, a car with broken air-conditioning, and somewhere between 12 and 18 chickens. I have enough to worry about without adding anything extra! So this year there will be no resolutions, no ‘word’ of the year, no promises to do more or be more… Instead, […]
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