Funny how the blogring has developed its own in-jokes. Oh, and before i forget, apologies to everyone at the end of the ring i am not quite getting to at the moment and the emails i am forgetting to reply to and thank you for all stopping by so often and commenting and keeping me [...]

You’re an earth mother! Your friends sometimescall you Gaea, because you’re the originalearth goddess! You and your kids both havedirt under your fingernails, and you spend asmuch of your time as possible out of doors.Your kids have an incredible appreciation fornature.
What kind of a freaky mother are you? brought to you by [...]

Must just blog how impressed i am with this. Nursery are teaching the children to sign this year, i think they have quite a lot of non-verbal children there atm, and Maddy has just come home and shown me the signs for “please” “more please” and “hello.” She did them so beautifully, i was [...]

I dropped the camera and broke the zoom but before the insurance company will pay out i have to go into town and get someone to assess it. Blah..blah.. will take forever.
I just tried to use the phone and couldn’t, only to discover that someone/thing has cut/eaten the cable between the phone and socket.
Nearly blamed [...]

… the tv people being here, it made me wonder what exactly would i say was MY fantasy education for my children? Is it what they are getting? No, probably not. Are they getting the fantasy childhood i would like for them? Not quite… maybe not that far off though, most of what i would [...]

We have Josie smiles!!!!! First smiles… aaaaah. Max was completely undone by getting a beamer from her last night… irresistable!
She still has really blue eyes too, maybe with a hint of grey but you know, i am not at all convinced she is going to be brown eyed at all. There will be talk…
(Waving at [...]

I did a good thing :~) Maddy, Josie and i went off for a quick jaunt to my mum and dads and we had a lovely time. She really revelled in having their full attention and a bit of space and seems much better for it. And of course i liked it too. Josie behaved [...]