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First week |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. October 3, 2011 in Uncategorized. The Cutester: Four and three quarters. So the Cutester has started school. She’s completed a whole week of mornings though, being in the oldest third of the class, by next week she will already be doing 9.00 3.30. While on the one hand all sorts of freedoms beckon me, I am not looking forward to finding out what shape she’ll be in when full days get underway. She’s already completely toasted. New kids on the block. Musings from t...
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October | 2012 |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. You are currently browsing the monthly archive for October 2012. October 9, 2012 in Uncategorized. Five and three quarters. The Redster fell in love with all things Potter sometime last year. But then, what about witches in kids’ stories? And what about Harry Potter? The borrowing of the first book had led to the next five, and to the forming of a very earnest fan club with a group of the Redster’s friends at school (anyone who loved Potter could join) of w...
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December | 2011 |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. You are currently browsing the monthly archive for December 2011. The gift that goes on giving. December 26, 2011 in Uncategorized. Cutester: Five at last. The Cutester knows full well that the Santa idea is not strictly factual. But the stockings, as well as keeping both girls busy until 7am, inspired her to reciprocate. The next evening I found both my pairs of Christmas slippers under my pillow. The following night I found this:. The Cutester: Nearly five.
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There is no carpet in Year Three |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. There is no carpet in Year Three. September 8, 2011 in Uncategorized. The Redster: Nearly eight. The Cutester: Four and a half. Well, goodbye carpet, but hello Eljay the Elephant. He came home from school with us yesterday, along with a diary, to record what he gets up to between hometime and 8.50am the following morning. I turned to the previous day’s entry, written by a boy who is notorious in the year for being, shall we say, high-spirited:. Charles on ….
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Potter Party |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. October 9, 2012 in Uncategorized. Five and three quarters. The Redster fell in love with all things Potter sometime last year. But then, what about witches in kids’ stories? And what about Harry Potter? The borrowing of the first book had led to the next five, and to the forming of a very earnest fan club with a group of the Redster’s friends at school (anyone who loved Potter could join) of which the committee met one Saturday and collaborated on the first...
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January | 2012 |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. You are currently browsing the monthly archive for January 2012. January 3, 2012 in Uncategorized. I’ve been storing up Cutester Sayings for a while and on the occasion of her birthday, or not too long after her birthday, I would like to share them with t’internet. This is an erudite child who has learnt how to relevantly use a literary quote to the best possible effect:. High heels going past on pavement: Clip, clop, clip, clop. Me: Yes he does.
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Borrowers Ahoy |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. March 11, 2012 in Uncategorized. Redster: Eight and a half. On Tuesday morning I was lying in bed steeling myself for the 6.15 start (Tuesday being the one day of the week that I catch a train to go and work in a real office, in a sort of parallel universe) when the Redster appeared at my side. She seemed agitated. 8216;I can’t sleep,’ she fretted. ‘I can’t get into bed with everyone crowded round it.’. 8216;Who’s crowded round it? 8217; I said. I racked my brain...
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October | 2011 |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. You are currently browsing the monthly archive for October 2011. Confessions of a wannabe mummy cyclist. October 27, 2011 in Uncategorized. Babymother: 39 and a half. I haven’t updated you on the Redster’s eighth birthday extravaganza (a film party! 13 children sit in complete silence for an hour and a half, eat cake, go beserk on the trampoline and go home! But I have done this:. The View from the Tank – a non-cycling mother writes. New kids on the block. It’s b...
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The gift that goes on giving |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. The gift that goes on giving. December 26, 2011 in Uncategorized. Cutester: Five at last. The Cutester knows full well that the Santa idea is not strictly factual. But the stockings, as well as keeping both girls busy until 7am, inspired her to reciprocate. The next evening I found both my pairs of Christmas slippers under my pillow. The following night I found this:. The shoes were a bit grubby, to be honest, but it’s the thought that counts. Charles on ….
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April | 2013 |
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Still trying to make sense of motherhood. You are currently browsing the monthly archive for April 2013. April 10, 2013 in Uncategorized. My favourite part, in case you’re interested, was a bit of footage shot on board the ship in the 1920s of real sailors really sailing the thing. You see huge waves crashing across the deck; men doing silly things like sitting on those vertical things that stick out from masts (‘booms’ perhaps? Babymother before July 2007. Comme une vache espagnol. Charles on ….
