In oh so many ways….
The weekend was spent mainly with my parents; all the girls adore them, even Josie started to flirt and play hard to get with them this weekend and as they have a lovely big house (for now as i think the family pad will be moving on sometime soon ) [...]

You gotta love her.

This week can probably be summed up by describing the following:-
*During the big girls swimming lessons, i normally buy the little ones some sweets. This week i bought them Love Hearts… then i stopped paying attention. Next time i looked at Josie, she had stuff every single one of them into her mouth at once [...]

Today marked the start of our involvement in the history group work that 2 friends have been doing together for some time; i hope they felt it was relatively successful, it seemed to go all right from my point of view. Granted, 10 children on a very hot day and 3 adults who would also [...]

All of which Josie has now mastered
“I’m hungry”
“I want biscuit”
“I want cake”
(Wonder who she takes after here???)
“I want this milk mummy” (with appropriate pointing )
“I’m naked” (???????)

Today we were supposed to do a return trip to Charlie and Claire, but i managed to have some deeply unpleasant tummy upset through the night, resulting in a distinct lack of sleep so we called it off, given that tiredness on nasty roads and bug spreading are not a good combination for travelling/visiting. [...]

There isn’t anything so good as spending time with people you love; a close second is with people you like very much, a pretty good third is exchanging a few written words which changes feeling very blue and lonely about your outlook into something more like realising “you’re going through a phase”. Gosh, how often [...]