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Build me a Bridge

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

I have a special little girl in my life. She is four. She is vivacious and gorgeous with enormous blue eyes and blonde curls. She looks at the world with awe and enthusiasm and dives into everything with joy and energy. She is also one of those kids where Health Visitors remark, “Is [...]

I love toast, me

Saturday, September 27, 2008

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Right now, if all is going to plan we should be surrounded by lovely mates and having a fabulous time. Misses E and M will probably be no longer sweetly smelling and neatly attired, but red faced and laughing doing knee slides across the dance floor. Mr B will probably have gravy [...]

Nightmare

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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I’m tucking Miss M into bed. Stories have been read, lullabies sung and even Chelsea the chavtastic turtle has been bestowed with a goodnight kiss. Suddenly Miss M sits up. It is one of those stiff jerky manoeuvres, the kind normally seen in old horror films, straight backed, arms forward, body a right angle. [...]

When I was 23…

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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The fabulous 21st Century Mummy aka Mrs Almost Average, creator (and soon to be published author) of The Rubbish Diet has tagged me for a mini interview type meme thingy. Having had a poorly 3 and 8 year old off school today on the one day I had the car (oh the plans I had), I [...]

If all else fails get Mum

Friday, September 12, 2008

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Miss E is growing into a fantastic big sister for Miss M. I’ve noticed it more and more over the 6 week holidays as her and Miss M have spent more time together. She is patient, gentle, sets things at a pace suitable for M and explains things to her in a really [...]

9/11 and a Christmas list

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Firstly I just wanted to give a little heads up to everyone affected by 9/11. Whatever race, colour, creed or nationality, so many people across the globe had their lives changed that day. I was one of them, in that I think I grew up a little. I was 26 years old, [...]

Baby mine

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Miss E has always loved singing. Each night as she lay in her big pine bed surrounded by soft toys and sweet smelling blankets she would take my hand and make her request and I would sing till her eyes closed, her breathing slowed and I was able to sit up without her springing [...]

First impressions, the ones people never forget

Sunday, August 31, 2008

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So you’re at a big family occasion, family you don’t often see. It’s a 30th birthday and our star guest has come all the way from Berlin. Only three other people there have ever met Miss M, to the rest she is an unopened book, a sweet new addition. I’m really looking [...]

I love you but…

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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Miss M has recently begun declaring her love for me with effusive spontaneity. It is so sweet to have my little girl chattering away about how there is a daddy spider and a baby spider on a web near the window, then from there jump to the words “I love you [...]

Sweet Dreams

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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It’s 3am and Miss M is crying. I lie in bed listening, waiting to see if it will remain the habitual cry of a small child who wakes in the dark momentarily, then closes her eyes and heads off back to dreamland, or whether it will grow and build and become one of fear and need [...]