The alarm clock sounds a startled beep. The kind of beep that makes your whole body jump and jerk awake – alert to the alarm – what’s going on? Where am I? What time is it? A snore from beside me, shakes off the fleeting shadow of dreams half remembered, noting the number ‘four’ and [...]
On Operations Past and Problems Present
April 13, 2013 by · 4 Comments
It’s a grey, drizzling and miserable kind of day. The house feels dark and dismal, with a closeness that is almost claustrophobic. I hate these kinds of days. They lower your mood to a pitiful level, leaving you lethargic and sluggish, with a head full of murky fog. But there is a spark of brightness in [...]
Interaction Not Rivalry | Can Siblings Get Along?
April 11, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
When we had our twins, me and The Beef made a promise between ourselves, that we would strive to treat all of our three children equally and love them all the same. This was something that we knew The Beef might find difficult, given that he wasn’t Big Bro’s biological father, however they both had [...]
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 [...]
A Slice of Normal Pie
January 28, 2013 by · 9 Comments
When I got home from hospital with Big Bro for the first time, it was like re-learning the fundamentals of caring for a newborn, all over again. Although he was by that time, four months old and I had been by his side, every single day, I hadn’t been party to the patterns and routine, [...]
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 [...]
Toilet Breaks and Headaches.
August 24, 2012 by · 5 Comments
This is a brief lesson on how not to approach the decision, of finding the best moment to nip to the loo. 1. Never presume that just because your sweet little girl looks innocent, content and happy with that small box of toys, that she is innocent, content and happy with that small box of toys. 2. This [...]
Singleton Envy.
August 20, 2012 by · 4 Comments
When you find out that you’re expecting twins, in most cases it’s a bit of a shock. In mine it was a huge one and one that initially I wasn’t ecstatic about. After going through a difficult birth and subsequent traumatic first year with my first child, only to find out that you’re going to [...]
New or Used – My Purchasing Dilema
August 9, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
As I begin to write this post, I am sat on a second-hand armchair, which is perched on a second-hand carpet, typing on a second-hand laptop and drinking out of a second-hand coffee mug. In fact, almost everything in this room – and indeed this house – has been previously loved/played with/used/worn by somebody else, at some point [...]
