1.  Home Win
2.  Away Win
3.  Drawn
Today was my Lie In day. I was in the Double Bed, where I’d headed in the night because Son 1 aged 5y 4m had crowded me out of the Big Bed. He then followed me down, so I woke up with him still beside me.   The Man brought Son [...]

1.  The Driver Of A Train
2.  Over Bridges, Under Bridges
3.  There And Back Again
I bought the boys a £3 DVD at Tescos. Despereaux, or something. This morning, just after the paper had been delivered, and just before breakfast, I sent them upstairs with Daddy to put the new DVD on. A small price to pay, [...]

1.  Nature Trail
2.  Natural Light
3.  The Natural
Since the days when School was just the New Nursery we have parked by the woods some distance away and Son 1 aged 5y 4m has scampered, trotted, trailed and dawdled the length of the Muddy Path to the Gate.  He kicks leaves, finds sticks for swords, hunts for [...]

1.  Sleepy
2.  Happy
3.  Grumpy
Forces collide. My fading vision; our gold-plated childcare.  The new frugal me decided to buy a No 7 undereye concealer instead of Lancome.  I ended up with a 17 medicated concealer stick because I didn’t look properly.  Oh well, I thought, every pound counts, and used it on my undereye shadows.  It was fine.  [...]

1.  Bad Parent
2.  Good Parent
3.  Dear Parent
0530. Son 1 aged 5y 4m screamed the house down. “MUMMMEEEE!” Great heaving sobs.  “MUMMMEEE!!!  I’M COLD!” On and on it went. Son 2 aged 2y 4m woke up and started crying. The Man went down. The crying continued. I was determined not to get up before 6am, and [...]

1.  House Party
2.  Party On
3.  Party Planner
Another party.  At a schoolfriend’s house.  More Ben 10 Lego.  Another sheet of Ben 10 wrapping paper.  The party house is out in the country.  No I haven’t asked for directions. I am, as usual, relying on SatNav. We set out. It snowed.  It stuck.  I crawled nervously along in low gear.  We [...]

1.  Delicious
2.  Near Enough
3.  Better
I slept like a stone.  Didn’t hear or feel Son 1 aged 5y 4m climb over me into the Big Bed. Didn’t know The Man had gone downstairs. I woke to Son 1’s insistent fingers searching for my eyebrow. I’ve said before, this is a leftover from breastfeeding, when he used to [...]

1.   Flats
2.   Steps
3.   Short Cuts
In the last 62 hours I have had 8 hours’ total sleep. I  have travelled more than 1000 miles.   I have had a puncture at 80mph in the outside lane of a motorway.  I have had my roots done.  I told you there is Always A Good Thing.  No idea where to begin.  [...]

1.  Drawn Out
2. The Big Draw
3.  Badly Drawn Boy
Son 1 aged 5y 4m slept in his own bed.  Yabba dabba doooo.  The Man was already up. And it felt so strange to lie awake alone… I went down and got cracking on the lunches.  The Man came down with Son 2 aged 2y 4m, smiling, in blue cotton [...]

1.  Why Oh Why? 
2. Who’s The Greatest?
3. What If?
i woke up on the edge of the bed, with Son 1 aged 5y 4m head butting me almost off the side.  He was stretched lengthways along the pillows with his feet inbetween The Man’s shoulder blades.  Why do they do that?  One of my pet theories [...]