A smack in the classroom – what would you do?
| January 20, 2012 | Children, School, Smacking |
Last week something quite unpleasant happened in my daughters class. I didn’t see it happen, and I only heard about it from one of the other Mums and my daughter. To explain – my daughter started in Reception last September and she is one of 18 children in the class. Every day I wheel the…
My mum is playing “favourites” with her granddaughters….
| January 9, 2012 | Children, Grandparents, relationship with parents, Sister |
As I have mentioned before in other posts – I don’t have the greatest relationship with my mum. One of the reasons goes right back to when I was young and she favoured my sister over me. This was a fact widely acknowledged among other family members, my grandparents talked to me about it when…
Waiting for a decision – the reality of being a working carer
| December 12, 2011 | Back pain, Children, Counselling course, Disability, Home life, School, Working carer |
Its no secret that my back has got a lot worse with the school run since September and now the cold weather. A couple of months back my husband’s employers spoke to him about the amount of time he was takingoff to help me out and this resulted in me cancelling my Counselling course, and…
A family gathering – and a difficult conversation
| December 12, 2011 | Children, Family feud, Grandparents, In-laws, relationship with parents |
This is an update to my post about my husband’s family wanting to make me scream….. 3 days before the “gathering” I sat my 5 year old daughter down to talk to her about why we don’t see my husbands parents. My SIL was all for not being upfront and honest and she said that…
My husband’s family have made me want to scream….
| November 28, 2011 | Posted by Alex under Children, Family feud, Grandparents, Home life, In-laws, relationship with parents |
My husband and I have been together nearly 10 years, married for 6, and have our 2 lovely girls. My husband’s parents did not come to our wedding or have ever seen their grandchildren. This is because they thoroughly disapprove of me and our relationship to put it mildly. When we got together they made it…
Health visitors, love ‘em or loathe ‘em?
| November 18, 2011 | Posted by Alex under Breast feeding, Children, Health Visitor, Home life, Pnd, Sister, Tonsillitis |
I had a dealing with a health visitor this week. This is news worthy as I haven’t had anything to do with them for nearly year and my daughter is 21 months. I contacted her with a query that our nursery flagged up – that my daughter breathes through her mouth when she’s asleep and…
Does your family have a “plan”?
| November 12, 2011 | Posted by Alex under Back pain, Children, Home life, School |
My husband manages a team where he works, and as part of his job he sees this sort of mentor/motivator/counsellor/ personal development guru man called Chris every few months. I can’t really describe him any other way, but he has sessions of 2 hours + with all the managers and talks about various professional and…
A – Z of me
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by Alex under Back pain, Children, Disability, Home life, meme |
This is my first ever meme, I was tagged by @loonylis, so thank you to her. ANORAK- Do you have a sad side? Sad, hmmmm not sure….but I’m a bit anal about my girls wardrobes and mine (ok, obsessed!). Skirts hang together, tops, jeans, dresses and I get a bit narky if it gets…
An apology to SAHM’s (or SAHD’s)
| November 3, 2011 | Posted by Alex under Children, Home life |
I would like to apologize unreservedly. I am truly and utterly sorry. In the past I made a huge judgement and this has proven to be an error. My error was thinking being a SAHM or SAHD was easy. A walk in the park. The soft option. What are they moaning about, they just sit…
