Sponsored by 3M via Digital Parents Collective. I’ve already established, at length, how I am not the craftiest person in the world. Despite my newfound crochet extremism, I’m pretty much the gumbiest crafter there ever was. I always have good intentions, and I always have a brilliant idea. But it never turns out as brilliantly [...]
Chopper
The sound fills the sky. Loud, full, chops through the air. My window to the street ajar, I feel as though the separated air will blow the curtains in. Billow through my room the way that sound fills my head. The wind in the sails of a bad memory. And my first thought is for [...]
Hand me the trophy, it’s time for my speech
Someone should give me an award for my brilliant parenting. No, really. Within the space of a week I have managed to let Fraser get sunburned. Twice. Also, this: Now, I was not involved in the beating of this child. If you ask, her version of events varies. To my mother: “Daddy hit me.” To [...]
A birthday, Partyzilla and the Queen.
Gooda Mornink! So, me, MIA again… Yeah. However, this time it’s for one of the most joyful, wonderful and magical of reasons. A birthday. Last week I was in the midst of party preparations. The 4th birthday party that started out as a sausage sizzle at the pool and morphed into a soda shop party [...]
