Family Affairs

I have made a huge mistake by going on our family summer holiday WAY too early. Now kids all BOOOOOOORED with nothing to do and I can’t be arsed to rush around in manner of alpha parent taking them to museums and art galleries.
OBVIOUSLY, I would normally behave like that but I still have [...]

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 [...]

Thanks for all your good luck wishes….it was better than I thought because we stuck to the agreed script and only talked about the children. We both remained calm and whilst I obviously got all the blame for weight issues, attitude issues and other general stuff – I can cope with that because as [...]

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 [...]

I’d like to say that the house is eerily quiet again (kids back to their dad’s for the weekend) and that I can hear my own breathing, but in fact it’s drowned out by Builder Bloke’s snoring. If you are lucky enough to have a non snorey boyfriend then that can be one advantage [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]