Calamine lotion & bicarb baths are out! We’ve all learnt something new about chicken pox this week, so I thought I’d share it in the hope that it would save your child some suffering. The new information on how to treat chicken pox is to keep the skin moist, to avoid sores drying out and [...]

I just got back from the Scout Hall, and had to share these pictures with you. This is Wren’s investiture ceremony for Cub Scouts. She has been waiting for this night with such anticipation, and she’s so very proud. As are we. Our Wren is the only girl in a troop with two sixes (is [...]

I was doing some reading over the weekend, in between requests that the lounge cushions be reassembled, sloppy wet kisses, scolding for mud-throwing, praising for sharing, cuddles, fetching drinks, tickles, orders to clean up lego now please, cleaning up spilt drinks, smiling at silly jokes and… Well, you get the picture. And I fell in [...]

Please go to the loo before watching this if you have a weak bladder. No childhood is complete without a little harmless terror. ~ Think I might make that my new parenting motto.

Grandma treated us all to lunch at the Hogsbreath Cafe, to celebrate the bump’s 5th birthday on the other weekend. ‘Cause the kidz have been asking and asking (and asking and asking)…. and asking and asking… Okay, I’m sure you get the idea. Anyways, Grandma whispered to the girls that it was a special day [...]