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Friday, April 6th, 2007Woke up, went straight into the kitchen as always, in a daze, to make coffee. There was Son, up early, happily sitting at the kitchen table with a bottle of glue in one hand, and a collection of odds and ends arranged on a tray in front of him.
“Hi mum! I’m making London!”
No wonder it’s [...]
conversations with kids #57
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007“Edward [a classmate] is so stupid! He doesn’t even know what K-I-S-S-I-N-G spells!”
“Really?”
“Yes! He thinks it spells marriage!”
easter bunnies
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007In the UK, Easter is about large chocolate eggs, usually containing more chocolate. They come in decorated boxes, like this.
In America, Easter is more about pastels, especially pastel animals, especially pastel animals wearing clothes, Beatrix Potter style. My daughter and I nearly fell over on hearing that Martha’s craft lady guest charges eighty dollars each [...]
conversations with kids #271
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007This is by way of a riddle:
Daughter (via phone) (suddenly, mid-conversation): “Woah! There’s a car right outside my window!”
This is very weird, as I know for sure that her window is on the second (US) /first (UK) floor, in other words a whole floor-worth of distance above road level. Visions of Harry Potteresque flying magic vehicles…
Me [...]
conversations with kids #56
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007I made you a mother’s day card at school, it has a red and pink heart on the front.
Thanks, how lovely! I can’t wait.
And on the back, I drew two exo-force fighters having a battle, and a screaming guy with a bomb body who is being chased by a big giant three-headed duck that can [...]
Legos these days
Friday, February 16th, 2007Patrick and Gary (of “Spongebob Squarepants” fame).
My son is obsessed with two things: lego (or legos as Americans call it/ them) and Playstation games. He thus has both planes of reality completely covered: the one where you create the universe, and the one where you control it. In both there are certain rules and limits, [...]
world fame in your own bedroom
Monday, February 12th, 2007Here’s a piece from the Observer about a new study of the sexual fantasties of Brits. Always a fascinating subject… no, not really, but I liked this bit:
‘Celebrity can have the effect of making us feel anonymous in our own life,’ he says. ‘The best way to get beyond that is to find a way [...]
how hard is it really?
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Livia Soprano: not a very good mother
Please follow this link to read my parenting manifesto, which seems to have changed url possibly due to blog maintenance- apologies. This is a later related post…
Rebel Dad has a cool blog going there. He started collecting parenting manifestos after Hugh Macleod invented his manifesto write-in thingy, has a [...]
today
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Today I will be starting the New Year of normal routine by attending to my day job of housewife-and-mother** by attempting a post-holiday cleanup of the house, aided by Daughter. The more time you spend at home, the more home-care you have to do. I have absolutely nothing against employing a cleaning lady, but I [...]
greetings, and link to me (and- warning- some more slight moaning about bad attitudes towards homeschooling)
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Well, we’re back, all in one piece and currently engaged in a big fight with the heavily-moulting last-minute Christmas tree, which must have been sitting in the Home Depot yard since mid-November because all the other trees in America are sold out by this time, as I now know, and also with the icicle fairy [...]
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