Family

Do you favour one of your children?

March 28, 2012

As an only child myself, I am the first to admit that I know nothing about coping with siblings. I grew up with the dedicated love, time and attention of both my parents at all times. I never had to share, could arrange all my books in alphabetical order without fear of someone else coming [...]

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Reading Aloud for World Read Aloud Day 2012

March 7, 2012

Today is World Read Aloud Day. I wrote about this annual event last year, and I very strongly wanted to support it again this year. A worldwide movement is taking action to support the right of every single person living in the world today to learn to read and write. To draw attention to the [...]

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Night time toilet training

March 1, 2012

We’ve taken quite a leap forward with night time toilet training the geekdaughter, and I recorded an audio blog about it yesterday (well, it’s actually two audio blogs as I over-ran the first one a bit! If the audio players above are not visible then you can listen directly via the Audioboo website here and [...]

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So proud of her

February 28, 2012

One advantage of having grown up mostly avoiding other kids, and only deciding to have my own family later on in life is that I know very little about kids in general, and in particular what milestones they’re likely to achieve when. This means that I am constantly being amazed by what my kids can [...]

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My resolution – weight loss without dieting

February 14, 2012

I feel like I have been struggling with my weight for an extremely long time indeed. In my head I’m still a svelte size 10/12, but in reality I haven’t seen that size for most of my adult life. This results in constant disappointment every time I look at myself in a mirror, which probably [...]

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New words every day

February 8, 2012

It was only a couple of days ago that I attempted to capture all the words the geekson can now say. I’m glad I did, as it’s great to have the record, but of course since then he has learnt even more! I’m not going to attempt to maintain a list of his vocabulary, as [...]

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Silent Sunday 05/02/2012

February 5, 2012

Silent Sunday. One photo, taken in the last week. No words.  To see more great pictures search for the #SilentSunday hashtag on Twitter

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The one where my Mum buys my son a dog toy

February 2, 2012

I made a comment in a previous blog post that my mother had bought the geekson a dog toy for Christmas, and I promised that I would tell the story of how that came about (with my Mum’s agreement, of course). Before Christmas my mother was out shopping in our local discount store and a [...]

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Expanding vocabulary

January 31, 2012

The geekson is 20 months old, and now that he’s got that walking thing completely sussed, he is making big leaps in his speech. The geekdaughter was the same – she focussed on walking first, and then once she’d mastered that her vocabulary just grew and grew. The geekson’s speech seems to be developing slower than I [...]

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Meal Planning Monday 30/01/2012

January 30, 2012

Last week was an exceedingly busy week, but I’m pleased to report that I (mostly) managed to stick to my meal plan made last weekend. My Mum was a star and came over on Friday to help me get the washing up and general housework under control, and I’ve managed to keep everything together since [...]

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