It's Easter Bunny time again. Or not, as the case may be. I've asked around, as I do every year, confused mammy that I am: Does the Easter Bunny come to your house? And the answers, though varied, usually have a similar theme: We didn't have it when we were kids but my kids seem to have heard about it ...
Category: The everyday family life posts
Rowing-boat tales
At the dinner table
This is how it goes in my house: "Kids, dinner's ready, come to the table." Then with a little less patience "Kids! Please come to the table!" Multiply this by pointlessly high number. Give up calling, start threatening and/ or physically lifting them into their seats. Cue dinner responses: Eldest: "What's this? I don't like this dinner. Why do we ...
12 signs my kids have taken over my house
It's messy here. Marker marks on walls, little piles of folded laundry waiting expectantly but in vain for someone to pick them up, a single toddler shoe sitting on the bottom step of the stairs. When exactly did the kids take over the house? The most obvious sign that the kids have taken over the house ...
A six year old’s take on all things Motherish for Mother’s Day
Kitchenless
And it hardly rained at all
Five wristbands, secured, we were checked through the gateway, towards the GPO. The elderly lady behind us didn't have a wristband, but it didn't matter. The woman on security told her so - the lady's years of experience were enough she said. One Dub to another. Hearts warmed. Then right up to the fence, a ...
Away with the fairies
8 Rules of Lent from the 1980s
The Lent of my childhood in 1980s Ireland was driven by a complex set of rules and norms, some of which I've listed below: 1. "Giving up sweets" had many interpretations. It could in fact exclude crisps, cake and in extreme cases, even chocolate. And chocolatey sweets, like Minstrels, which were technically deemed to be chocolate ...