Moments from Suburbia

We are driving along the road, nothing much is really going on, we are on the way home from school. Small Sprog has a noisy friend in the ba...

Meet Archibald. He is adorable, at last our family is complete. He is aproximatly 13 years old and was unwanted by his last family as they h...

Late Friday afternoon and I pull onto the familiar drive, the gravel crunching under the tyres. The place looks much the same as it always w...

Small Sprog brings his Girl Friend home. She is sweet and pretty and well mannered but goodness me is she full on?! By the time I had fed th...

Only 50 days to Christmas (yes really) and Tall Girl is fifteen next week (where did all those years go?) and Small Sprog has a Girl Friend ...

In the car Small Sprog taunts his sister "You've got no friends!" He says. She says something suitably scathing to him and he ...

I am being stalked. Really I am, or so it feels. I click onto my Gmail and there's a reply from Tall Girl about making Sheep Cupcakes....

Tall Girl and I plan a shopping trip. Her school has an In Service Day and Ex Husband has Small Sprog, who hates shopping. "Where sha...

"And they did something that's not normal" Tall Girl is telling me the latest gossip to hit Year 10. It is about a boy and a ...

"He's told me" Says Tall Girl, who is sitting on the kitchen worktop, feet stretched out on the draining board. "Is he i...

We had a training session at work today instead of our weekly meeting. There is a new photocopier, it is deemed we need to know how to use i...

Dinner at Mums; with wine. "She never remembers what I tell her" Step Father complains "He never hears what I tell him...

I am very lucky to have moved into my new house at about the same time as my neighbours both sides. I guess that's sort of normal on a n...

Yep, my baby, at Big School for nearly 2 weeks now. How time flies, it only seems like a few days since I heard the the midwife utter those ...

I went back to the Old Family Home this afternoon, the children are with their father until Wednesday and I needed to check some stuff with ...

It's not often I get to see Mum without the children, so as they're away with their Dad at the moment I thought I'd pop up for t...

At the beginning of the school holidays I went for a walk with Mother of Four. It has been well over a year since I have seen her, may be ne...

Tall Girl is tired and run down - aren't we all? But it's been a while so I thought I should get her checked out so that she can enj...

Tall Girl came home flouting all her end of year subject 'level's today. We looked at them over the dinner table. They were good; th...