This blog, as usual is poorly updated at the best of times. Whenever something nice or cute happens at home, you make a mental note to blog it later. Then by bedtime, it’s gone. Aha, but not today! Today’s escapade involves a fat dad (me) and two short-arses trying to amuse themselves while the women folk [...]

This is it. The cat who adopted us. Or Swissy as Rachel likes to call it. The latest news on this moggy is that she attached herself to the woman who lives two doors down from us. She started to feed the cat and ended up making sure it got innoculations and stuff like that. Lisa [...]

I am pretty sure that I have spent the last year telling my children that they couldn’t have a pet. How is it then that we have ended up with a cat constantly perched on our front door step? Not only does it sit there day and night, but it has now started jumping onto the [...]

Our attic room is temporarily a ‘play room’. Which means it’s a place for the kids to throw their toys around without us having to look at the resulting mess. Every now and again, I take Daniel up to the attic and we watch a DVD together. We throw ourselves down on the beanbags and, if [...]

This is one for you, Rachel. You’ve always been an early bird, and since you’ve been able to tip-toe down the stairs, we’d frequently wake to the sound of your TV programmes and find you comfy on the sofa enjoying some time to yourself. During the week though, I’m always up ahead of you. But you [...]

Hell, it’s been a mad few months in our house. Our websites are getting more and more popular. My day job is getting busier and more stressful. I don’t update this blog as often as I’d like to, because I want to record some of our lives for the kids. As a family, good things are happening, [...]

Dear children, Just a quick note to remind you that not every parental sacrifice has to be a big thing. Tonight, we were alone in the house together without any bread and only 3 pancakes left in the house for a bedtime snack. Now, in our house, the pancakes are mine!!! But tonight my loves, I sacrificed my [...]

We’ve done it! We’ve toilet trained a child or the third and final time, and that feels good! Just before Christmas, Daniel decided that he didn’t want to wear a nappy anymore. We had known from late summer that he was ready, but in our laziness kept putting the inevitable off. We just didn’t want to [...]

This one’s for Rachel. I had a bad dream at the weekend. About you. And in the dream we’d lost you in a car crash. It was one of those strange dreams - it lasted long enough for me to feel grief. And there was a bizarre amount of detail. For example, Jake was having trouble [...]

Little Jake, tonight was your finest hour. You peed for the first time standing up. In years to come, we’ll take this for granted and you’ll probably boggle that I even bothered to write this down at all. But I’m so proud wee man. A couple of months ago, I talked to you about going to the [...]