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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
PHEW. So far so good. My youngest child enjoyed his first day at his new school. I surprised myself by crying after I’d walked away from him – it suddenly all felt so final – all three of my kids at proper grown-up schools and in a blink they’ll all have flown the nest.
Needless to say I got over it quite quickly.
When I picked him up he looked all happy – talked me through the whole day – mostly what he’d had for lunch – he thought he’d been given “beetroot crumble” until it turned out to be apple and blackberry crumble.
He was awarded “Player Of The Day” by his football coach in PE which I”m REALLY pleased about because you can’t get much better than that on Day One. He’s made some friends and likes his teacher and, and, and,
and, I shall just hold my breath for a minute because after a few days of lots more homework etc, from experience they begin to find it all gets a bit relentless and he’ll no doubt not feel quite so upbeat.
END OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS
1. September 2010
I am nearly blind from sewing on nearly 85,000 new name tags. My children are stressed and will all be completely grumpy and exhausted in the morning when I have to wake them up about 8 hours earlier than they have been up all summer holiday. Does anybody have a megaphone I can [...]
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26. August 2010
RIGHT. That’s it. I am NEVER going shopping with my teenage daughter again.
Of course I am hugely proud and smug that she has now become the rainbow and I the faded old cloud, BUT honestly, if you want to be invisible, go out with her. EVERYBODY looks at her. [...]
NUTELLA BREAKFAST BRIEFING
23. August 2010
I hope that it was no coincidence that a few days after mentioning that I had taken my father a jar of Nutella in the hope that it would perk him up a bit I got invited to join a group of bloggers for a Nutella Breakfast briefing at Legoland.
I mentioned this to a male [...]
WISH ME LUCK
22. August 2010
My ex husband has asked me to meet him “to talk about the children”.
The meeting is tonight.
I am shitting myself.
I really hope it’s not as bad as I think it might be and that we can find a way through all the mess without talking about his new wife or Builder Bloke or [...]
POST EXAM PARTY
20. August 2010
I have sparkly green toes.
They look quite pretty. Or they look mouldy. One or the other.
This is because when I wandered into my bathroom in the middle of the night – just as the teenage party was winding up – around 3am – there was lots of sparkly green eyeshadow on the floor [...]
AS LEVEL RESULTS
19. August 2010
I am having an “I’m a rubbish parent moment”….
My ten year old came up to me this morning to ask my advice:-
“Mum, I need your advice” he said solemnly, “what age would you recommend that I start smoking?”.
THEN even more worryingly he said it was so that he could plan when to ask me to [...]
3. September 2010
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