Category: Family
All These Words I Don’t Just Say
I don’t know where to start, but this is a start so it’ll have to do. Or it could begin with my son’s wobbling lip, when I caught him balancing on a blue plastic step on top of a kitchen chair while he was hanging off a pantry shelf, trying to reach the top and…
Well, that was an interesting weekend
On Saturday morning I woke up and couldn’t open my mouth. Hold on, that’s not quite true. I could open my jaw so my teeth were about two inches apart, the same as if you put in your thumb in sideways. I’ve been trying to think of funny ways to tell this story, but in…
That Particular Agony of Back To School Shoe Shopping
Yesterday, in a move of surprising organisation I’m not normally used to in holiday time, I was able to muster the children together and get them out the door and down to the local shoe shop by 9.10am. Unfortunately, a great many other mothers were even more organised and by the time I arrived I…
