Kids get bumps and bruises all the time, but I’ve never seen a child so prone to danger as our youngest. Dan can injure himself in the blink of an eye, in situations that no-one else would expect. If it’s true that only an idiot refuses to learn from his mistakes, our baby is in [...]
Right, let’s talk about the night of 1st July 2009 and the bloody, wrist-slashing adventure that ensued. We’d only buried my father at the weekend, and with that rather large event behind us, there was suddenly a metric ton of paperwork to take care of. Notifying all the various companies he had accounts with, getting [...]
Despite spending the whole weekend at home, it might have been one of the busiest on record for us. We had Mother’s Day, dance classes and birthday parties and Lisa’s teenage brother staying. Saturday Saturday started things off properly. I knew it was going to be a struggle to keep everybody busy, so a bit [...]
After I walked out of my parents’ house on Saturday, I proceeded to do exactly what I’d promised the boys. I took them out and we had an excellent day together. I had taken Daniel to a little harbour round the coast called Portbradden earlier in the week. While the weather wasn’t wonderful, we managed quite a [...]
This blog, as usual is poorly updated at the best of times. Whenever something nice or cute happens at home, you make a mental note to blog it later. Then by bedtime, it’s gone. Aha, but not today! Today’s escapade involves a fat dad (me) and two short-arses trying to amuse themselves while the women [...]
Our attic room is temporarily a ‘play room’. Which means it’s a place for the kids to throw their toys around without us having to look at the resulting mess. Every now and again, I take Daniel up to the attic and we watch a DVD together. We throw ourselves down on the beanbags and, [...]
Hell, it’s been a mad few months in our house. Our websites are getting more and more popular. My day job is getting busier and more stressful. I don’t update this blog as often as I’d like to, because I want to record some of our lives for the kids. As a family, good things [...]
We’ve done it! We’ve toilet trained a child or the third and final time, and that feels good! Just before Christmas, Daniel decided that he didn’t want to wear a nappy anymore. We had known from late summer that he was ready, but in our laziness kept putting the inevitable off. We just didn’t want [...]
There are points in the parenting cycle I love and those I don’t. Most men I speak to seem to agree that the baby stage is hard to deal with – the crying, the tantrums and the dirty nappies. And that’s just their wives. Seriously though, the first couple of years are the hardest as [...]
Daniel’s latest phrase is “Yay, dat!” It used to be just “Yay!” whenever you offered him something he wanted (usually food), but this last couple of days he’s been adding “Dat”. Meaning “that” in case you were wondering. One of the funniest things about him is the zeal he puts into this. You’d honestly think [...]
