If you’re a follower of Five’s A Fellowship’s Facebook page, then you might have noticed that I gave you all a preview of my spur-of-the-moment video. It involved twins, the back garden and lots of ineligible twin babble. I like to think of it as their space language because firstly, it suspiciously resembles Clingon and secondly because [...]
The Times They Are A Changing
February 24, 2013 by · 6 Comments
Well at least I hope so. Despite the five of us being overwhelmed by the flu, it looks like our situation – especially our financial one – is beginning to look a bit more positive. From tomorrow, The Beef will be starting a full weeks work experience, with a builder’s merchants in Exeter. If all goes [...]
When The Mother-In-Law Tells You What She Really Thinks.
November 1, 2012 by · 10 Comments
My sister suggested that I stand up to my mother-in-law and confront her, on how she has been indirectly treating me, since the birth of the twins. At the time I thought it would be a good idea, but on talking it through with the psychological therapist, at my regular group therapy session, she thought [...]
The Elephant In The Room
October 14, 2012 by · 17 Comments
There is a power struggle going on, in my small little family. Not between me, The Beef, The Twins or Big Bro. No, the elephant in the room is my mother-in-law. Well, I say mother in law because it’s an easier way of explaining my relationship with her. Me and The Beef, aren’t married, so [...]
On Needles and Weightlessness
September 24, 2012 by · 10 Comments
Having had my unborn son, diagnosed with a serious birth defect, I was naturally, distraught. The dreams I’d had of taking my little bundle of joy home with me, nurturing and caring for him from birth, within a few hours, had been shattered. What could I do though? Should I sit for hours and cry [...]
“Mummy, I want a banana please!”
September 17, 2012 by · 4 Comments
It’s 5am and up until a few moments ago, you were submerged in a fitful, tossing and turning kind of sleep. The kind of sleep that fights you from the moment you put your head on the pillow and which you desperately fight back with, in an attempt to achieve some kind of rest. Then, [...]
But Why?
September 12, 2012 by · 4 Comments
I was tagged by the lovely lady over at Twins, Tiaras & Tantrums in a meme titled “Why?” It was originally started by the lovelies over at Mummy Central and it’s a chance for us, as parents, to get our own back and ask the questions that our little terrors darlings bombard us with on [...]
The Manifestations of Grief
August 22, 2012 by · 21 Comments
On Christmas morning 2011, our house was full of laughter, excitement and the many other things that you associate with that festive day. We had only just moved in to the property, after years of fighting for a place to call home, the twins were almost three months old and we were all glowing with [...]
