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A boy after my own heart
On Sunday morning Reuben asked me to run him a bath. But before I did that he asked me to do two things: Take out all the small anti-slip discs (Munchkin Grippy Dots) and wash them. Put them back in...
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Happy Christmas
This year I managed to write a Christmas newsletter before Easter. Or indeed at all (see 2012). It’s called Christmas newsletter 2013 (PDF, 435 KB) and if I’ve not already emailed it to you, then feel...
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My Mum on Skype (and other connections)
My Mum on Skype, earlier this evening. This morning we got up early, carefully removed the roof box (it turns out that if the wind gusts above 50 mph then cars with roof boxes will be prevented from...
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Party transport early warning system
What’s going on outside my front door, you ask? Well, let me show you. Ah! Right on time: here’s the party transport. Reuben and Joshua were invited to a party taking place in Leven this morning. Our...
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Why you shouldn’t screw your flip flops to your feet!
A pretty drastic way of ensuring that you prevent your flip-flops from falling off is to screw them on! This week hasn’t quite turned out as planned. For one, yesterday morning I had to manually remove...
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Our three year old kept waking up too hot during the night. What we did will...
Open window. (Photo credit: Mattox on Free Images) Those Upworthy style headlines that have been popping up everywhere are annoying, aren’t they. I’m not the only one to found this. Dean Burnett from...
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Walking Isaac to playgroup
“Can I get a photo of you, please, Isaac?” “Okay!” One of my favourite things today was walking Isaac to playgroup. We played “I spy” on the way; the colour edition. Isaac: I spy with my little eye...
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It turns out I am a souter after all
Reuben’s shoe—mid-mend A couple of days ago I noticed that the stitching on Reuben’s shoe was coming apart. My response to this came from two places. First, I was brought up with the attitude that we...
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Twins in school—together or apart?
Reuben and Joshua on their first day of primary school As we approach the final few weeks of the school year, last week I received an email from Tamba, the twins and multiple births association, of...
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Viral meningitis is a pain in the neck!
My bed at Victoria hospital, Kirkcaldy Earlier this year I decided to blog more honestly about what’s really going on in my life and in my head.I haven’t done much of that, although I’ve wanted to. The...
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Remember those days before the world wide web, before social media when we were… well, actually social. We could sit in the same room with someone and chat with them in person rather than via Facebook...
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In which Isaac tells a story about the sun and renames the days of the week
A very serious, but grown-up, looking Isaac (3). The sun Last night while putting Isaac (3) to bed he told me a bedtime story. It was about the sun. The sun, he told me, one day fell out of the sky...
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A week of much sleeping
Two Lightning McQueen toy cars under Isaac’s pillow. This evening while I was getting Isaac ready for bed, I pulled back his pillow to retrieve his pyjamas and to my astonishment found two toy...
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The writing’s on the wall
I like Isaac’s categorisation by colour. This afternoon after Isaac had been to the loo, like the good boy he is, he dutifully washed his hands. About 20 minutes later I stood at the top of the stairs...
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