I made a list. I had to. Otherwise the summer would slip by in a blur of rain and groceries and the occasional overcast barbecue, and suddenly it would be September 1st. If we were going to do some day trips, I'd need a list. So I wrote down some of last year's most successful ...
His favourite pastimes are chasing pigeons, raiding cupboards and eating bagels. At lunch-time, he ignores what everyone else is having and goes his own way, even if that’s Ready Brek with fives spoons. At dinner-time, he gets up from the table and walks off to play with toys. I bring him back and he looks up at ...
This is not a newsflash. If you're reading this, you're probably a parent, and you already know that parenting is hard. I like for there to be reason for the hard days though, and this week I learned that sometimes there is no reason. Like Monday morning. I woke up cross. So did everyone else. The ...
"They'll all be in the cloud thing anyway," I said to my husband last night, talking about backing up my photos. "Maybe we should put them on the lap top anyway," he said. "Just in case the cloud runs out of space." It's a conversation that wouldn't have made much sense when we first met fifteen years ago. Any ...
My head was a little bit tender when I woke up this morning and my brain was a little bit fuzzy - a Prosecco-type fuzziness, after an incredibly fun 40th last night. What I really didn't want to do was get five of us up and dressed and into the car by 10.15am, but I'd promised the kids ...
Tonight I fished a pair of socks out of the toilet. Little red and navy striped small-boy-sized socks. I could make three guesses as to which child put them in there, but I'd be right on the first one. As I tried to use a wire hanger to drag the socks out, by holdig them ...
"Maybe sexist dynamics within heterosexual couples cause straight women to slip down the earning scale. Lesbians will never view their career as second fiddle to a male partner’s because they don’t have male partners." I was reading a piece by Una Mullally in the Irish Times yesterday morning, and the above two lines stopped me. The article ...
Did you see this list of emotions people experience but can't explain? I loved it. I thought of some others that I'd put on my own personal list - less philosophical, more prosaic: Ijustcant: The annoyance you feel when you pass a pair of shoes on the stairs, knowing they've been there for two days and nobody has bothered picking ...
Two years ago, the world’s media watched as Prince William strapped his newborn son into a car seat for the first time. He appeared to be nervous, and understandably so – every parent knows the daunting task that is the first fumbling foray into the world of car seats. And even those of us who do ...