Jo Beaufoix | Tag Archive

Cartwheeling with a Toys R Us Giraffe

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

La famille Beaufoix has a new role. Or is it have a new role? Anyway it is very serious and important and fabulous and one we plan to fulfill to the best of our abilities. It will be tough. There may be hard times, tears, squabbles, possibly even bruises, but we will soldier on because we live to [...]

Sometimes it’s hard being five

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

9 Comments

Sometimes it’s hard being five People take you to places like inner city beaches and expect you to have fun. They expect you to jump up and dance when you’re watching Johnny and the Raindrops, even though you’re quite happy to sit and strum along in a quiet way. And you can never quite keep up with your [...]

Mum to a ten year old now

Thursday, August 12, 2010

12 Comments

Today I am Mum to a 10 year old. My little blonde girl has been here a whole decade. The thing is, I can’t remember, or even imagine a time when she wasn’t here. My heart won’t let me do it. Maybe that’s just because I’m in a soppy mood today, but whatever it is, it’s fine [...]

Random moment of the day

Saturday, August 7, 2010

15 Comments

I’m sat reading. A stolen moment while Miss M plays with her ponies at my feet and Miss E is at her friend’s house. I feel, rather than notice her stare, and look up to be met by slightly glazed eyes that are looking through me rather than at me. Then she speaks. Miss M: “Mummy, it’s hard [...]

Big What??

Thursday, May 27, 2010

3 Comments

I’m driving Misses E and M, and my nieces aged 3 and 6 to school. We’re stopped at traffic lights beside a row of shops when Miss M decides to share her developing reading skills with us… Miss M: “b, i, g, b, a, p, s. Big Baps Mummy.” I stifle a snort. Me: “Yes that’s a cob [...]

Sometimes You Just Know…

Monday, April 19, 2010

6 Comments

It’s weird the stuff kids remember isn’t it? Sometimes they truly surprise you. They see stuff you somehow miss, and remember things that enter your brain but are swiftly extinguished replaced by bigger, ‘better,’ more grown up concerns. And I wonder to myself, ‘What made that stand out for them? What was it that meant [...]

Lickey What?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

18 Comments

Nobody thought it could happen. I mean, who really believes in them anyway? Yes you can read about them, see pictures, some people even claim to have spoken to one, but they’re always a bit of an enigma; living on the edges of reality. You can grasp an essence but you can’t know if what [...]

Creating Blog Poop

Sunday, April 11, 2010

20 Comments

It seems such an age since I last posted even though it’s only been a matter of days…but what days they have been! We’ve had blog meets with lovely lovely people, a Victorian experience with my family, a weekend with friends ending in a fab day at Drayton Manor Park, and all while keeping relatively sane [...]

Easter Monkeys

Monday, April 5, 2010

14 Comments

Four little girls, four special days A treasure hunt in a forest Making shapes on the dance floor Scaling heights Meeting the locals Trying new things And now…sleeping And yes, Mummy had chocolate

Colour Me Good

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

23 Comments

Lovely gorgeous and ’smells a bit like chocolate’ Miss Tara of the Sticky Fingers has set ‘colour‘ as this week’s gallery theme. Having been inspired by a very talented and clever lady, my friend Kerry, fabulous wife of fabulous blogger Dan (All That Comes With It), I have taken my camera shopping today. (Yes I found the [...]