Reasons to be Cheerful Part I

I have had the menstruation talk with Miss E.  It went well.  My 9 year old amazes me with her ability to take things in and deal.  She listened, asked a couple of questions, pulled a couple of faces, then wandered off to finish her Medusa mask for yet another school project.  I know we’ll [...]

A Little Grubby

I have been tagged.
I owe meme’s to so many people – Dan, Potty, Anna, Tim, Erica, and Rosie
But as I am hormonally challenged today I have decided to go with short, sweet and happy.  So I have Rosie’s Shiny Happy People Meme
The rules of the Shiny Happy People Meme are simple:
Name a song that makes you [...]

Swing

I could write something really deep and meaningful as a title for this picture
like
’sometimes it’s ok to pull in different directions’,
or
‘I got your back’
or
‘Sometime you’re up, sometimes you’re down’
But that would be so cheesy I would possibly explode, and there’s a chance you might puke on my blog. So instead [...]

Where did it go?

…the time
Happy Birthday Miss M.  5 today our beautiful girl, our  little whirlwind.
I love how you see the world.  I love how you put on funny accents when you play with your dolls.  I love how you tell me that everything you say today is right because “it’s my bursday Mummy.”
Great big huge wockachonking cuddles [...]

Just a Blog

I am a blog
I belong to a woman called Jo
Sometimes she’s a little naive
Sometimes she’s not
Sometimes she likes soggy weetabix, watching Twilight on Blu-Ray, and singing at the top of her voice in a weird operatic style that makes her kids put their hands over their ears and occasionally gives her gerbils migraines.
Sometimes she writes [...]

Is it cliques or just friendships? Aren’t we all the same?

I am not writing this post to villify, upset or offend anybody.  I am writing it because I am so sad and low and overwhelmed.
I commented on a post last night.  It was a post that I am sure was intended to  be a positive and warm outreaching to new bloggers.  Tots 100 Author and [...]

Kiss My Blog

If I knew of a place you could go where they would remove unwanted body unpleasantries, for example, the large hairy mole that looks like it has a face and a moustache that sprouts out of your shoulder and that you occasionally talk to…you would want me to tell you right?
And if I knew of [...]

Proud, Yet Slightly Disturbed Mummy

Miss M completed her first piece of written homework this week.

Is it not adorable?
And although she is almost 5 years old and therefore still really quite tiny small.
And although she says ‘mimit’ instead of minute, and ‘bursday’ instead of birthday, and ‘trump’ instead of…well ok, she has no trouble with THAT word.
Although she makes me [...]

A Shining Star of Wonderful Gorgeousness

Nothing to see here.
No really.
Just didn’t want you to think I’d been picked up and slung over the shoulder of a handsome stranger – probably a Simon Baker or David Tennant look alike – and whisked away to somewhere lovely where they supply calorie free but extremely yummy chocolate, and a special book that you [...]

Bloggers for Haiti

I sit and write this post at the end of a long day.
A day where my two little girls arrived home from Daddy’s at 9am.
A day where we set off to visit Rosie and IJ’s at 10.15am and stayed for lunch.
A day where my mates Nic, Lu, Podda and Baby I came to visit at [...]