Get A Real Job

My son loves stuff. He is really into shoes, clothes and sports teams and all the associated paraphernalia for those teams. In other words, over-priced, expensive stuff. He knows the price of every item in our sports shop, and will save to buy what ever it is he "needs" to add to his collection. As …

Riding in Shopping Carts with Boys

I've committed myself to one of my least favourite tasks with my son these school holidays, clothes shopping. It's never been easy with this one, he is fussy but consistently inconsistent in his choices. He carefully selects random items that meet his approval. He'll love something one week and then detest a similar item a …

Bricks and Broken Dreams

I've been pretty quiet on the blogging front lately, and with good reason. You see we've been very busy chasing our dream home and it's consumed absolutely all of my time, my energy and my, well, life. It's a tale of manifested dreams slowly coming to life, being so close, and then watching it all fall …

Stealing my thunder

  This popped up on  my memories on Facebook recently. The instant I read it all of the feelings I felt at this time came flooding back and it filled me with a blend of anger and sadness.  My husband and I anticipated some comments about having three boys, but honestly we were bombarded with …