I love that I get to stay at home with my children, but there are, as in any career, downsides to the job. Sometimes they strike me as funny, so I’ve started compiling a list. You know you’re a Stay-At-Home-Mom (SAHM) when: …You really amuse yourself by writing both ‘ketchup’ and ‘catsup’ on the shopping… Continue reading You Know You're A Stay At Home Mom When…
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Best Job In The World
The news is full of the guy who won the contest for the “Best Job In The World” – as a caretaker of a tropical island, which was a brilliant PR campaign by the Queensland Tourist Board, by the way. Talk of the Nation, on NPR, is doing a call-in show, asking people what their… Continue reading Best Job In The World
Happily Hitched
It’s wedding season here in the US. Anyone who has ever listened to 1930s & 40s popular song knows that ‘moon’ and ‘June’ are synonymous with love — and it’s not just because they rhyme. In most of the States the weather is unbearably hot any time between June and October, so most weddings, with… Continue reading Happily Hitched
Wheeee! A Wedding
One of Kev’s colleagues got married today and we got to go! It’s the first wedding we’ve been to in years. We’ve outgrown the wedding phase and even the christenings phase. Now we’re pretty much relegated to first communions and funerals until the boys grow up and start pairing off. So it was lovely to… Continue reading Wheeee! A Wedding
Holiday Pics
Official photographers all over DisneyWorld take your picture and we, like the suckers we are, had to buy them. But hey, at least we have pics of all four of us!
Earth Day
Earth Day Failures: Driving 12 miles there and back for a 20 minute appointment Getting lost on the way (even with GPS), and driving an extra 3-4 miles Sending A in for ‘hot lunch’, which is served on disposable, coated paper plates. Sending A to school with Cheese-Its in a plastic zip-lock bag for his… Continue reading Earth Day
Happy Holidaymaker
I woke up in my own bed this morning, for the first time in a week. Last week was spent at Disney’s Animal Kindgom Lodge in Florida and yes, I was aware of how fortunate I was, every minute of the trip. Before we left I was out of sorts. By the time we got… Continue reading Happy Holidaymaker
Fighting It
So, I wrote a children’s book. It’s a short, 6000 word chapter type book, like one of thos series books that early readers hoover up. My idea was to write a series of them. The first one went really well, and I think part of it was the simplicity. I used a published book as… Continue reading Fighting It
Haircut
I went to have a trim today and came out… …a brunette.
Oh, To Be Welsh
I sat at my computer and just goggled. (That’s right, “goggled”, not “googled”!) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&hl=en&fs=1]