My babies in their wellies (note Scarlett has got over her welly issue now she realises Boots the monkey wears them, also note the poncho!)
Author Archives: Nic
Carb City 🙂That’s where me and Ady are right now! Ady went to the chip shop for tea tonight and I have eaten chips, 2 x sausage in batter and two slices of white bread with real butter – oh and two rather large glasses of wine and a caramel pannacotta for dessert – am …
Back Pack, Back Pack…Just been to the post office to collect the parcel and it is indeed the Dora birthday cake candle (very good and well priced) some Dora stickers (well they are just stickers really so not much to say about them!) and the Back Pack (it is quite small – much smaller than …
my kids, gotta love ’em!Scarlett (the smaller one who my dad thought was behind in her talking!) said her first sentence today ‘here you go Mummy, strawberry’. She was supervising Julie cutting the stalks off the strawberries and deciding who they would be for and taking them to them. There even appeared to be some …
Autumn is here….Which as probably everyone who reads this lives in the UK is a bit of a non title as you would all be aware of it already, but still…We’ve just been outside in wellies to put the washing out (it joins some soppy wet two day old washing already out there – if …
Reasons why we should win the lottery… it wouldn’t change us; really it wouldn’t. I would still be the same old Nic, we would probably move to a bigger house, but not LOADS bigger, we would still use all the same furniture and have the same clutter issues that we have now. I would still …
It’s another Life of Nic comedy moment!As previously blogged we have fleas. We have tried the herbal stuff on the back of the necks and we have spent a small fortune in flea sprays for the house, but Scarlett still looks like she is a red dot to dot picture and the poor creatures are …
Never dealt with one of those before 🙁So after both littlies going to sleep by 6.30pm last night we knew we were probably in for an early morning today – yep!They woke simultaneously at 5.30am – Davies with a nosebleed. Ady went in to his room, saw blood soaking the pillow, dribbling all down his …
Nic are you okay are you okay are you okay Nic?Take a look at your chalet bungalow and the sudocrem on the carpet, then she ran into the bathroom, a creshendo, then she turned the taps on, you’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by, a smooth toddler!Almost wasn’t going to blog this as it …
Scarlet billows start to spread…My friend Jim and I started this competition when we moved up north a couple of years ago and now they have moved to Ireland we have reinstated it. It started from late night, drunken channel hopping through the music channels on Sky and trying to guess artist, song title and …
All fairly random stuff today!A real Sundayish Sunday today – my turn to get up with the kids so we watched the early Dora which happened to be a Halloween one – cue much excitement all round about the upcoming party – we keep sneaking into Scarlett’s bedroom where all the stuff we’ve bought so …
Ooh frugal day! And I even quite enjoyed it!Well that would be frugal if you buy into the ‘think of what you saved, not what you spent’ type mentality – like me 🙂Went over to Chris and Julie’s today – Ady and Chris stayed with the kids while Julie and I went to a NCT …
A nice afternoon 🙂After blogging at lunchtime we did indeed set off out to post a couple of letters and take the thank you note and Halloween party invite round to Rachel and E. I also stashed the latest bag of Scarlett’s outgrown summer clothes to give to Rachel too. Semi – expecting her not …
Like some sort of housewife! Yep, that’s me today! I have tidied all the coats hanging on the back of the playroom and cupboard under the stairs door so you don’t get attacked by coats every time you brush past them; I have made a couple of phonecalls; done a few bits of paperwork; entertained …
Argh The Minx!That would be my daughter, imp of darkness, doer of wrong!We have had a nice enough day so far today, another full nights sleep from Scarlett which always sets you up better to cope with small people’s tricks and mischief! Out by just after nine this morning to rush to the bank, only …
The Muddle Puddle London Meet…So I had this sort of fantasy about how it would go… we would arrive, fresh and feeling all cultured having managed to negotiate both the train and a black cab just me and the kids without supervising grown-ups at the Diana Playground to meet up with my MP blogring chums …
I can do this Mummying lark no trouble!A pretty good day all things considered. A really bad night with Teeny meant Ady went back off to work with no big waving off committee. Monster came to wake me just after 7.30 and having sent him downstairs to check to see if Daddy was still there …
I’m so proud!We’ve always taught Monster that if he does something bad or wrong or naughty he should tell a grown up so we can sort it out. That even if it is really wrong it is better to own up and get it dealt with than to ignore it or even worse to lie …
And now, the end is near…Yep, Ady goes back to work tomorrow and as he and my parents have delighted in telling me I will be left alone with the kids and have to do everything again! Now I openly admit I have totally enjoyed letting him get up in the mornings, doing their lunches …
sneeze, whine, cough, splutter…I have some sort of cold virus related London lurgy – well a cold anyway! So am feeling sorry for myself and in need of indulgence and cuddles.We’ve had a nice day today continuing in our ‘tourists at home’ vein. We have not been to Brighton (which is only about 12 miles …