A is for appetite. Hungry? Always! My food bills must quadruple during the holidays. Term time, they eat breakfast, lunch at tea with a few snacks in between. In the summer holidays, they are ready for lunch an hour after…
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You know that look that your children sometimes give you? A sort of narrowed-eyed, withering look as if you are suddenly the weirdest person they have ever seen or spoken to. It seems to happen more and more as the…
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I have been asking myself this question a lot recently, which may seem a little strange but we have come to that time in my son’s life when he “can no longer live” without a decent phone. I am pretty…
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I wonder how many times you hear that word as a parent. Quite a few I would imagine. As a toddler, “more” must be one of the first words that a child can say. It is easy to say and…
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What has summer 2015 taught me? That six and a half weeks holiday is a very long time. I like my children a tiny bit more when they are at school. Eleven year old boys can talk about their hair nonstop…
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Before you think I have gone completely crazy, bedtimes have become a bit of a chore in this house since Christmas and on one of the many evenings spent pacing up and down after my children, I was quietly humming…
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Oh it is a tricky business navigating the choppy waters of parenthood, isn’t it? One minute it is all plain sailing and the next you hit a storm that nearly takes you off your feet. In this house there always…
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It’s funny how looking back at photos of your children, you have completely forgotten how they looked back then. This was R during his early weeks at primary school; bright eyed and rosy cheeked, he still has that same cheeky…
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My eight year old son loves school. Really he does, even though most of the time, he does a really good impression of someone who doesn’t. Whatever has happened in the morning, once he arrives at the school gates and…
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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.
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