the kids were SO excited this morning, especially Libby who is the most excitable of all of them and has a special little hoppy-skippy dance she does when she's particularly happy. she was running around telling everyone about the "giant sock" with presents in that Father Christmas had left at the end of her bed. Christmas this year was a bit ( Read more... )

i asked my sister Charlotte whether she'd enjoyed the new High School Musical film. "yes," she said. "it had kissing in it. real kissing!" she was snuggled up next to me watching a dvd yesterday evening, and at the end a handsome young man got down on one knee and proposed to the main character. Charlotte whispered "yes" under her breath, before ( Read more... )

i went to Dad's last weekend and spent time with him, my step-mum Sue and the kids. we went to visit a farm (where i underestimated the sun pretty badly and have ended up with bright pink shoulders), played water games in the garden, built Dylan's new Tardis-shaped wardrobe for his Doctor Who bedroom and had a delicious barbecue to celebrate Dad's ( Read more... )

i'm moving house!! well, i know the past couple of entries have implied this fact since i doubt anyone could live with their ex-girlfriend in a one bedroom flat forever, but now i actually have somewhere concrete to move to which makes life much less stressful, exciting and a wee bit scary ( Read more... )

i spent the weekend baking in the 26 degree sunshine in my Dad's garden, playing with my brother and sisters and eating barbecued lunches. i'm now back in london missing my family, with tired legs from too much trampolining and one sunburned arm, but very happy that the summer seems to have begun ( Read more... )

i was about to say i did nothing today but slob, and then realised that actually i swam 100 lengths, did a grocery shop, trawled round three pharmacies to find a product that had been recommended to me (£8.95 for a tiny bottle of skin oil!), did two loads of laundry, cooked my mother a meal including inventing a non-dairy pudding made with soya ( Read more... )

dylan *opening a knight and dragon toy* - what are these?

dad - those are handcuffs

me - dylan, whose hands would be small enough to fit in those? *meaning the dragon*

dylan *smirking evilly and beckoning* - charlie...

we went to a fish restaurant last night, and i tried oysters for the first time. tried would be a good term... the first one i didn't loosen enough from the shell, so i just got a mouthful of lemony sea water! i get the whole oyster thing. mmm. the restaurant was next to a little french market, and all the girls left the guys in the bar and went ( Read more... )

i had a nightmare train journey down to london where part of it was replaced by a bus, queued for 3.5 hrs in gatwick due to a system failure, my plane was delayed, hardly slept at all the first night cause it was so boiling and charlie kept waking up and chatting to her soft toys, but it was all worth it yesterday morning to be greeted with a big ( Read more... )

on my mental list of the most enjoyable days of my life, today would count at least in the top five, if not the top three! dad woke me at half six, i came downstairs and was handed a warm, sleepy three-week-old baby to cuddle. there isn't a better feeling to start the day with than that! i fed libby, then it was time for dylan to get up. we had a ( Read more... )