It’s the 10 year old’s birthday. The 8 year old was up first, in our bed asking when his sister would be up. And asking, and asking.  Until she appeared.  Grinning, […]

It’s the end of the football season for the 8 year old. He played in his last tournament on Saturday and I got my last chance to brim with pride […]

We’ve watched A LOT of Modern Family over the past few months.  We discovered it by accident and then decided that we had to try and watch as many episodes […]

I wrote this post last year. It seems fitting to roll it out again, today, on Father’s Day … My Dad made me cry this morning. By the medium of […]

I’ve needed an overhaul for some time.  The past few months have been difficult, in many ways, and I’ve been comfort eating. I saw that Northern Mum had started a paleo […]

This post is for Tara Lara’s Gallery. The theme this week is ‘faces’. Gramps’ dog, sadly, died last month. She was really poorly and had to be put down. “I can’t […]