Words for Wednesday…

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…celebrating is exhausting. By midday yesterday, my second little prince was asleep. He looks so tiny now, yet in less than three months, he’ll suddenly blossom before my eyes into a little boy as his baby brother joins us. Our three Musketeers. I’m more than completely in love.
Our first Elf arrived in 2011 when Jensen Indiana was one year old. I had discovered the tradition through reading American family blogs and there were aspects I loved about the whole idea and others I wasn’t so fond of. The basic concept was of an elf who arrived in your home and who…
Last week Yotie came out of school beaming a smile which could only mean one thing. Sure enough, there it was, tucked under his arm in a cloth tote bag… Humphrey the Hummingbird. Humphrey was coming home with us for the weekend to have some fun. I groaned inwardly. Not because I’m some evil killjoy…
It’s big, hairy spider week here in Hampshire. Seriously, they are EVERYWHERE. The false widow we found on the trampoline yesterday [and swiftly relocated] was by far the biggest I’ve seen, and the pyjama spiders [garden orbital ones, we call them Miss Muffet spiders or pyjama spiders, depending on how stripey they look] on the bushes…
Over the past 5 years, I’ve given birth to three nearly 10lb boys. Today, those three bouncy babies have grown into a superbly energetic and handsome little boy-crew of Jensen, 5 years old; Lyoto, 3 years old and 18 month old Hero. At times they’re quite a handful and controlling the noise in our house…
Keep Up With The Jones Family Instagram or Facebook followers will have noticed yesterday the solving of one of our most frustrating garden mysteries ever. We finally found the gastropod version of the Rock of Gibraltar. For weeks we’ve searched for the plump, guilty molluscs who were clearly feasting nightly on our green seedlings by the glow…