This month I’ve gone back to making my book reading update into a vlog – but I’m not alone.

As you’ll discover, in one capacity or another, the whole family contributed. As you might expect, this makes it slightly chaotic.

Keira has begun pestering us about wanting to start a blog. I quizzed her a little about her reasons for this towards the end of the clip, but by that point Riley was being naughty and I couldn’t stand the distraction any longer so I wrapped up my questions early. I might pick up that subject later.

[Riley starts bugging the cat at around the 4.35 minute mark. This sort of antagonising is commonplace. As is the way Whiskers retaliates.]

Riley felt left out – and I felt bad – so we filmed a second vlog. I haven’t uploaded it online yet. His was about his favourite thing in the whole word – Little Big Planet 2.

Books featured:

The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
The Professor, Charlotte Bronte
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Rainbow Magic Fairies series
Go Girls series

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity