28 June marks my grandad’s birthday. He passed away almost 9 years ago. I miss him.

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If you’ve been following me on twitter, you’d know that I lost my voice a couple of days ago.

I still have a really sore throat and my voice has been coming and going. My doctor has said to try and give my voice a rest.

Ummm, hello! You have been my doctor for 12 years. You KNOW that I have absolutely now way of giving my voice a rest because I have 5 kids! It’s like when the doctor says “try to sleep when the baby sleeps” when the doc knows you also have a toddler or three running around *rolling eyes*

So, instead of feeling sorry for their poor mama and bringing her a cup of soothing lemon tea or mint chocolate throat soothers, they have been working together (first time for everything!) to encourage me to “yell” at them so they can have a laugh!

DD15 thought it was hilarious to stand down the hallway with her hand up to her ear and say “Pardon mum, we can’t hear you”.

Now you would think that knowing what’s good for him being the responsible parent that DH is, he would have gently reminded the children that their mama is not feeling well and that they shouldn’t be little sh!ts making it more difficult.

But NO! I catch him on the phone laughing, telling his mate how peaceful it has been because I have lost my voice.

You’d think that I yell all the time if you took any notice of this lot. Believe me, I don’t yell ALL THE TIME. LOL

I refuse to buy any more acne treatments! We seem to have found the one that works for my teenagers but because DD15’s friends are trying some other product, DD15 decides that she NEEDS to get that one now!

I think it’s just a matter of her trying to “keep up with the Joneses” and I’ve told her that if she wants to get anything else, she can pay for it out of her money. Just because the product comes in a prettier bottle DOES NOT mean it’s a better product and why change when the one she’s currently using is keeping her skin clear?

You know how you go to put something away and you end up putting it in your “safe spot” but then you go looking for it and you can’t find it?

Well, that’s what I did with DH’s pocket watch. It had stopped working and I put it away until I had a chance to take it to the jewellers to get it fixed along with one of my bracelets.

I was cleaning out a basket that was stashed at the back of my wardrobe and I found the watch and bracelet after searching for it for months!

Really good safe spot, hey?! LOL

The baby has discovered that she can squeal.

So it has been quite noisy around this place. If she’s not “yelling” at her older siblings because they aren’t letting her in their bedrooms’, she’s yelling at me because I closed the baby-safety gate behind me when I walked into the kitchen.

When she’s not squealing, she’s running away from me! When I ask her to come and get her nappy changed, she runs the other way. As soon as she sees that the baby-safety gate has been left open, she’s running towards it to get into the kitchen. If she sees that the front screen door hasn’t been shut properly, she’s running towards it to get outside!

And she’s quick! Most days I’m feeling like I need to take some energy pills just to keep up with her! LOL