After a rare but particularly unpleasant run-in with my teenage son a few weeks ago, I had retreated to the toilets in the restaurant we were eating in to clear my head and the wall was covered with a variety…
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The other evening as we were only part of the way into the long process that is my daughter falling asleep when she asked me how I got up each day in time to get everyone ready for school. An…
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Sometimes I sit back and look at my children and I marvel that not only did I manage to create these amazing, living breathing people, but I do also seem to be making a not to bad attempt at setting…
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It’s not me by the way. I can be arsed (if that is a thing), very much so in fact. Well, most of the time. My sons, on the other hand, are a very different. “I can’t be arsed.” “I…
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It is a whole two years since the no longer a teen passed his A levels and yet it seems like five minutes ago. Since then, he has worked, travelled around New Zealand and completed his first year of university….
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Now that my ‘baby’ is rapidly heading for her seventh birthday and my eldest his twenty-first, I have been looking back at my twenty or so years of parenting and thinking back to those lovely parenting books that I read…
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We have all been there haven’t we? You know that you have produced your final child, life has moved on from the baby, toddler even preschooler age and then someone you know goes and has a baby. Very inconsiderate. As…
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Levels. When you think about life as a parent, there are so many different levels and challenges at each stage aren’t there? From tiny babies through to tweens, teens and beyond, it takes some serious thought and careful navigation. As…
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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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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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