So how long can you get away with the ‘baby brain’ excuse? I used it recently when I had forgotten to take in some forms to school. “Oh I must have baby brain!” I uttered. The receptionist and all of…
Read More »“Everyone tells lies don’t they?” This was my nine year old son’s answer to a recent conversation we had about telling lies. “You tell lies sometimes!” This was his reply when I tried to explain for the tenth time, why…
Read More »Over the last few weeks, I have had the dilemma that I had been dreading. I returned to work in January as a teacher and hubby is also a teacher, so what do we do if one of the children…
Read More »Today I had a list of about a thousand things to do. Housework, school work, shopping, planning, sorting myself out for my insane climb up Mount Snowdon on Saturday. Did I do any of it? I did not. I looked…
Read More »A strange title for a post I know, but this is a phrase that I would use to describe my life right now. Well, actually, it describes my life pretty much all the time. I live my life by the…
Read More »We have a new game in our house. It’s called pass the strop. It’s a really, really fun game and the great thing about it is that absolutely anyone can join in; young or old. The rules are very simple….
Read More »I can cope with bad behaviour. I can cope with a certain amount of verbal abuse. I can cope with tantrums, screaming, shouting, slamming doors. I can even live with PDA’s (public displays of anger). But, being spoken to like…
Read More »We were all snuggled up on the sofa yesterday afternoon watching the new BBC program Africa. It is an amazing program with brilliant footage of the African landscape and its inhabitants. If you watched this weeks episode, you probably know…
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Hello and welcome to my blog. I'm Nikki, mum of four, wife, teacher, writer and drinker of many cups of tea. This blog is pretty much anything that pops into my head, an eclectic mix of family life and lots more. Grab a cuppa and have a read.
Nikki
