Giorgia likes to sleep in on the weekends (sometimes). But every weekend, no fail, the kids up the road are knocking at our door early, asking if she can come out to play. This morning was no different. I answered the door and told them that she was still sleeping. It seemed like it wasn't even 10 minutes after I closed the door, that they were knocking on the ... Read More

Everyone was occupied so I thought I'd quietly slip into the bathroom to have a shower when.......... "But I washed the dishes last night!" "The baby hit me!" "Do we have to go to school on the last day of term?" "I can't wait until Aunty Penny's birthday party!" "Don't forget to buy a present for Miles!" .....and my a$$ got burnt because someone turned the cold tap on in ... Read More

In recent times, you may have noticed that I have passworded some of my posts. No one gets to read these posts except my DH. I used to write in journals but I unfortunately found out some years ago that someone had read my journals and took it upon themselves to tear out some pages.  I never found out for sure who it was, but I have a fair idea ... Read More

I don't think I have ever sworn on my blog before but seriously..... I vent on my blog and I get the shit blown out of me so the next time I want to vent, I password protect the post and I still get in shit. STAY OFF MY BLOG if you don't want to read what I have to write! I'm not forcing you to read it. You are ... Read More

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People think that they can say anything on the internet while hiding behind their keyboard. I'm sure you've heard this said before, many times. But it usually refers to people being abusive and flaming and the sort. What irks me are the people who make themselves bigger and better than they are in real life. They make their lives sound perfect, their house 3 times bigger than what it is, ... Read More

I don't often blog about DS16 because he doesn't give me any reason to blog about him...lol...unlike DD15, who is always giving me reason to vent on here! But occasionally he WILL do something that is blog worthy and this time, it's because he did this: Apparently he and his friend were bored so she offered to "do him up" and take some pics of him. THEN ... Read More

I'm always telling the kids not to fill out the entry coupons that are displayed at our local takeaway shop. The prizes are usually computers, or home appliances or holidays but I think it's just a way to add more names to mailing lists and telemarketer's lists so then you can be interrupted right in the middle of dinner or when you're trying to put the baby to sleep just ... Read More

I know of some parents who have basically kicked their kids out when they reach 15-16 because they just can't put up with the obnoxious, rude attitudes of their teenagers. But I could never understand how they could allow their kids to leave home at that age and when my two oldest babes were young, I used to always say that there would be NO WAY that I would kick ... Read More

I recently came across a blog which outted a popular magazine for featuring a photo of Brittanny Spears (apparently taken just after she had her second child) looking fabulous, with a headline that said something like "How she lost (enter ridiculous number here) lbs in (enter just as ridiculous number here) weeks! It could have gotten people thinking that she had an awesome personal trainer, or she was taking Anoretix, ... Read More