LIFE WITH BOYS

This past weekend my parents were home from Mexico and visiting us to celebrate the boys’ birthdays. After giving the boys the coolest t-shirts and holiday gifts ever (more on those later), and handing over some super hot, hot pepper sauce to me and Dadda, on Saturday we blew out the candles on Jensen and…

Thanks to the amazing and delicious talents of The Cake Pop Princess, on the eve of our birthday tea, we had sumptuous cake pops. Yes, we had more cake.  It’s okay though, this is cake on a lollipop stick we’re talking about.  It’s a whole different food group.  A super-cute and really rather fantastic food…

Today was the final time for our poor Baby Dragon had to be vaccinated. Three injections, three sets of tears, three pains that I wish I could take away from him.  We sat in the chair, I held his vulnerable little body still, closed my eyes and hoped with all of my heart that somehow…

Breakfast this morning was delicious.  The lovely people at Lizi’s Granola sent us me some of their pecan and treacle mix to try. Thinking this might be something that I would enjoy myself, and would make a delightful change to my regular cereal (or lack of cereal most mornings), I perched on the fraction of…

Snowy days in Hampshire are very few and far between.  We get plenty of wet days, an abundance of windy days from the Southampton coast, and lots of toe-curlingly cold days, but few snow days.  So when we awoke to a flurry of flakes and a blanket of white purity on Friday, we moved understandably…

The huskies enjoyed an afternoon in the snowy garden. Paws caked in snow are much more pleasurable to clean than those matted with mud.       Casanova is so handsome.  I still can’t believe how sick he is. Excalibur just wanted to rumble… Now they’re inside, hogging the sofa as the snow melts…. I’m…