Wrigglebot brought home some homework from kinder on Friday. They have a family storybook and each child needs to write about their family on a page of it and add some pictures. The stories then get read the next day during story time. It was like a red rag to a bull when I found [...]
Sometimes I feel like I have it all together. The kids are growing and aren’t killing each other, I have very high standards I know, my writing is going fairly well, I’m managing to get to just about everything I’ve committed to and I can still walk around rather than wade through the stuff on [...]
I asked them what they did outside and they said, ‘Nothing,’ but they looked guilty as sin. Nail polish all over their hands but neither of them opened it. I asked them what happened and they both looked down and didn’t say anything. Even Squirm who commentates everything and doesn’t even stop talking to sleep [...]
I had dinner with girlfriends last week. Such a simple act but the greatest treat. I got to sit down and eat a meal uninterrupted and it was hot and didn’t need re-heating in the microwave! This excited me so much that I had to share with my girlfriends just how much of a pleasure [...]
The Little One has turned into a bit of a copy cat. If we could be selective about what he copied that would be great. We would choose toilet training from Wrigglebot and independent play from Squirm but alas whatever he copies seems to involve danger. He has been walking for about two months now [...]
When Husband and I first had Wrigglebot we spoke wistfully about The Era of Laughter. In today’s standards I was young (24) when I had Wrigglebot, though not as young (16) as people thought, and not many of our friends were having kids. They were focussing on career or travel and we were enjoying sleepless [...]
Some things are hard to explain to children, like death, it’s difficult to find the balance between explaining life to them and making them scared. They can fixate on the slightest detail. The father of a friend (my age) of ours recently died and we were trying to tell Wrigglebot about it. Here’s how some [...]
My life is so completely different now to when I was starting uni ten years ago it’s hard to think that any of the skills would be transferable, but some of the things I learned have set me up for this stage of my life. No I’m not talking about the influence of Nietzsche on [...]
There is no better sound in the world than your child’s laughter and now I have two children that play and laugh and laugh together. I have no idea what they are laughing about and it almost seems like they have no idea either. Or maybe they do…I’m starting to suspect that these two cheeky [...]
I don’t know when kids start dreaming, or maybe they do all along, but I think they get to a stage where they remember their dreams and dream more vividly. Wrigglebot started waking up probably at about two and a half with stories of dinosaur monsters that were strangely similar to the ones Husband let [...]