Tag Archive: children

Jan
27

There is only one of me!

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A very good friend of mine once said that she was going to get the words “there is only one of me” tattooed on her forehead. I have to confess in the last few weeks I’ve been tempted to do that myself. Since before Christmas I’ve been working on a very high profile project at work, which …

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Jan
06

I never expected her first time to be at a friends house

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It’s something you have to think very hard about. The first time. Not to be undertaken too lightly, not to be left too late. Who wants their child finding out about this stuff in the playground? It is clearly something that needs a lot of thought, and has to be handled right. I always thought …

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Nov
18

geekmummy.tv – app of the week – Drawing Pad

This week’s app of the week is inspired by my friend Minibreak Mummy who wrote an excellent blog post last week explaining why she thinks the iPad is a perfect computer for toddlers. I have to agree completely with her on that, and so do both my kids! It came out in the comments to that post that …

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Nov
02

Do you take pictures of yourself with your kids?

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I don’t have many pictures of myself with my kids. Which seems ironic, given that I’m married to a professional photographer… The geekdaddy takes lovely pictures of the kids, and I take loads of snapshots of them with my iPhone, but we don’t have many pictures of us with them. In fact we do not …

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Sep
17

Sometimes this parenting stuff is hard

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On the whole I feel very supported in my role as parent. The geekdaddy is a very “hands on” kind of a dad, and we are surrounded by family locally. We also have some great friends who also provide invaluable support. I wouldn’t want to say that I find parenting easy, especially when juggling a …

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Aug
24

The thirteen year itch

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It was my wedding anniversary on Monday. Thirteen years ago the geekdaddy and I gathered a load of our friends and relatives together at the Botleigh Grange Hotel in Southampton, and said “I do”. Thirteen years. That’s quite a long time really, when you think about it. Even longer when I think that we’d been …

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Aug
14

Silent Sunday 14/08/2011

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Jul
27

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

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I have two nephews – oldernephew is 5 and youngernephew is 2. The geekdaughter is closest in age to oldernephew, and has always played more with him than with youngernephew. We are very fortunate in that most of our extended family live very close, and my sister-in-law and her family live just the other side of the same …

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Jul
18

geekmummy.tv makes ice cream

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We dug out our ice cream making machine the other day, and the geekdaddy got a sudden urge to make strawberry ice cream. It really is very easy to make your own ice cream, so we thought we would record his efforts and share them. He had some help from the geekdaughter, and even the …

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Jul
14

Where have all the manners gone?

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A chance encounter yesterday evening got me thinking about manners…

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