Hooray for DD Give three cheers and then some. She had her first competition today at the gymnastics club and won GOLD in her class. She got a proper medal and a chance to stand on a podium and grin like you've never seen. Mr wol has pictures and will link when he uploads them. Lord but I was nervous. Watching as a parent is much much worse than ( Read more... )

Do you know what my beloved daughter's BFF said to her when she came to our new house for the first time? "Poor you! This must be the worst house in the whole world! ... well maybe not the worst house." If I could have pushed the little rodent hearted caviler down the stairs, well no, not really, but still, the liver cries out for vengeance and so ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there have experience dealing with Night Terrors, especially with or as a child? DD is having fairly regular attacks of them, usually within 15 mins of first falling asleep. We are not getting much in the way of help here except for the advice to 'make the bedroom safe for her' because she tends to run out of the room looking for us ( Read more... )

Well DD went back to school this morning and in spite of the hissing rain went off with a fat grin and a bounce in her step. She cannot wait to see her BFF. ... I just hope her BFF is kind to her today. I could do without the emotional fallout of a rift for another week at least. I am getting used to the fact that DD going back to school leaves me ( Read more... )

Just yesterday I had, for the first time, to yell at my DD to turn the music down (lower volumes had not penetrated the din) and she got to 'mishear' for the first time and make it even louder. She's what? 6? hoo boy!

After much waiting and wiggling of perfectly sound teeth DD was delighted a couple of weeks ago when first one then two of her baby teeth started to loosen. Since then there has been much snaggle-toothed grinning as they moved around in her mouth, sort of leaning against one another like a miniature stonehenge. Yesterday I met her at school and she ( Read more... )

There is something unsettling the determination with which BB points to pictures of Iain Banks and says 'Mama!' (for those who don't know why this is funny see the picture at http://www.iain-banks.net/about/). Help! must buy razor obviously ( Read more... )

Anyone out there like Guinness? Well the huge Guinness brewery in the heart of Dublin looks like it is going to be modernized to another site altogether. This would be a crying shame for the heritage of the city. If anyone is interested there is an informative site on Facebook with details Read more... )

Got poor sleep again. Will switch off early and go and read The No-Cry Sleep Solution in hopes and prayers some solution may be found for BB's refusal to sleep at night. It is doing awful things to our bonding and not so great things to our health as well ( Read more... )

Have rather staggered through the week so far on not enough sleep and too many jobs to do. DD's birthday was last week - 5! she's 5! already!! - and it was half term so guts were busted making things fun for her and gearing up for teh BIG PARTY on Sunday at Monkey Maze a local play centre. We ended up with 19 kids at that party, not including BB. ( Read more... )