Words for Wednesday…


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I was a little bit awful at sports when I was younger. Not that I wasn’t enthusiastic; I was just too aggressive [tennis], too uncoordinated [rounders] and too unpopular [netball]. Let’s just say that I had issues even catching a basketball. As sport clearly wasn’t a natural talent of mine, my parents never pushed me…
Despite everything you know, everything you’ve read, if you’ve witnessed your precious child suffer a febrile convulsion, fevers are terrifying experiences. When Jensen Indiana was ten months old, just a few days after Christmas, he had what we assumed was a miserable cold and he fell asleep as normal, lay under the twinkly fairy lights…
I generally dislike my own birthday. Besides the fear of the Happy Birthday song [it makes me cry and I don’t know where to look when people sing it to me] I awaited my 40th year with dread. Older, wrinklier, and feeling like my life was pretty much done opportunity wise. However, so far,…
I’m a smiler. It gets me into more trouble than you’d think. I can smile in any situation – even when I think I’m having a heart attack it turns out [onset of chronic pleurisy in late pregnancy] – I think my resting face might even be a smile. We take our boys’ oral health…
I knew I was in good company when I stepped onto the Munchkin stand at this year’s Kind Und Jugend show in Cologne, Germany. Greeted by a rainbow of hearts dangling from the ceiling, and guided towards a sweetie bar that would make Willy Wonka feel outclassed, I met with the very gorgeous Jaime Oliver…
We’ve been struck down with Dadda’s bug and so things are a little hard going in our house at the moment. No sleep for Momma, sad Baby Dragon, our Little Adventurer in denial of being ill, and huskies that are traipsing enough mud in for a couple of hippos to wallow in. In any case,…