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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Confession #81 - Sometimes, shoes can be resisted

Confession #81 - Sometimes, shoes can be resisted

Especially when there are only 11 days of the school year left and we're talking about school shoes.  His current shoes have massive holes in them and it's the wettest summer on record.  But £30 for a pair of shoes he'll wear for three weeks?!  I call it character building.

Monday, 2 July 2012

Confession #173 - A Mother's love is unconditional

Bad mother confession #173: A mother's love is unconditional. 


But even that gets pushed to the limits at half 9 at night when the kids are hanging over the edge of your bath after you've resigned yourself to call an early end to the day, dinnerless, having endured two and a half hours of madness and mayhem and faced with two trashed bedrooms, post-bedtime. And then they have the cheek to say they're tired in the morning. *drums fingers on the table*