Parenting
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Did your eyes pop out?
4 years ago I was struggling to find something as a Christmas present for my daughter. She was at that age that was a grey area between being a young child and being a teenager and nothing seemed appropriate until I decided to get her a pet…..a guinea pig. It seemed perfect, she loved animals, Continue reading
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This Week and The Many Many Questions of My Child!
I’m writing this while watching the England match….which I might add has completely bored me and so I started to think about what I would write about this week for my blog. Usually my son would ask a question and straight away I knew that question would be what I would write about but this Continue reading
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Glasses and the Many Many Questions of My Child!!
For those of you who read my last post you will know that my son has needed to get glasses and seeing my son adapt to this has been quite the spectacle (!!!). Him having to wear glasses didn’t bother me, I wear glasses, my daughter has also worn glasses since being a small child Continue reading
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Which bit of toast should I eat first?
Toast. That slice of crispy bread lathered in butter is delicious right. Well no. I never would have thought that toast would have become the bane of my life. But it has. That one slice of crispy bread I am seriously starting to detest. And I will tell you why. My son is currently in Continue reading
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Are you 41 now?
It was my birthday on Wednesday and at 6.30am my son woke up and the first thing he said was happy birthday. Then he asked… “Are you 41 now?” And I was indeed 41. He said he had been thinking about it all night. We had a normal morning and he went to school. This Continue reading
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You know Jesus Christ, what do you think happened?
Every morning we had the same routine (barring any meltdowns). My son would shout me when he woke up – usually between 6.30am and 7am. If he hadn’t shouted by 6.45am my alarm went off and I would lay in bed for 5 minutes waking myself up. Once my son had shouted I would go Continue reading
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How quick has this year gone?
There were so many times when my son said things that were so much older than he actually was. And this was one of those times. We were driving to school with his favourite song on and I could see he had his fingers crossed and he looked at me, sighed and said: “How quick Continue reading
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Why doesn’t the Earth fall down?
We were on day 7 of the Easter Holidays, in those 7 days I had had 7 sleepless nights, approximately 15 wake ups during those 7 nights (on average 2 a night), I had answered approximately 100 questions (on average of 14 questions per day), probably more actually, and I was knackered so very knackered. Continue reading
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Can I plant some custard?
Custard. My son loves custard. I would go so far as to say he is addicted to it. He LOVES it. Absolutely loves it. He has a pot of custard every night after getting in from school. He loves it that much I’ve had to put a limit on it. He is allowed only 2 Continue reading
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Who was the first person on the Earth?
We were stood on the playground one morning and I was feeling relieved. We had had a good morning, rare very rare. Once again we were first on the playground – this is part of my son’s routine that he likes to be first so we were just stood discussing who would be next on Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 