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Cupboard love? That’s neat

10:24am Thursday 18th March 2010

I WAS so excited last week. In fact, I still am. When you find out why, you may think that I am a particularly sad person, and you could be right. But some of you may understand. Some of you may even have experienced the same, heady thrill.

Fright at the museum

10:33am Thursday 4th March 2010

EVERY few years, my husband or I take just two of the boys away for a short break.

A severe case of turbulent tum

11:30am Thursday 18th February 2010

CHILDREN have the knack of being quite poetic in the most challenging of circumstances.

A bark is worse than a fight

11:50am Thursday 4th February 2010

IT’S the first thing I hear when I wake in the morning. “Muuuuum can we get a puppy? Can we? Can we?” “I want a puppy.

The rocky road to the exam room

11:03am Thursday 21st January 2010

THIS time last week, I stood freezing at the gate with the little ones, half expecting the school bus not to turn up again.

New year, new boys?

11:20am Thursday 7th January 2010

IT’S so much easier to make New Year resolutions for others. This way, I can still gorge on all those leftover Christmas chocolates while dreaming up challenges for my boys:

My mouth... my mother’s words

10:50am Thursday 10th December 2009

I TRY to resist it, but there are times when I just can’t fight it any longer. There is no getting away from it: I am turning into my mother.

Let’s hear it for the fairy cakes

10:46am Thursday 26th November 2009

IN a weak moment, I agreed to buy the seven-year-old a huge, brightly coloured, hideously expensive, iced cupcake in a trendy cafe.

Passport to frustration

10:42am Thursday 12th November 2009

YES. We did it. We managed to escape from the country for half-term week. As a family with five children that is not as easy as it sounds.