Category: Parenting
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Penny has Dropped (in the pot)
This week we have been having another go at potty training, but it didn’t start off well. I armed myself with loads of knickers, 1001 spray, mop, sticker chart, chocolate buttons and had a quick read of Gina Ford’s ‘Potty Training in One Week’. To start, we gave her a chocolate button for sitting on…
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Things Kids Say….
and 9 other things that make me smile. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaDHUt67eQ] Thanks to Heather @notesfromlapland for tagging me for this one. I think she took pity on me, as noone had tagged me yet. As usual, I’d like to make this open to everyone (not sure if this is against the rules) but it would be great…
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Don’t you just want to throttle them sometimes……
Do you ever have those moments when one second you want to throttle your kids and the next you want to cuddle them. It may have something to do with it being school holidays, hubby has industry week so out all week and we’re potty training. I was at the point of wanting to write…
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Do you post pictures of your kids?
When I first started using Twitter my daughter had one of those falling asleep in her pasta moments so I quickly took a photo and sent my first Twitpic. I really didn’t think anything about it until one of my colleagues sent me an email asking if I felt comfortable putting photos of my gorgeous…
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Pancake Day
I was really excited about making pancakes today. @iaingilmour sent me a recipe for American style pancakes but it wasn’t until I started cooking them I realised that he had sent me two recipes; one for traditional American Pancakes and one for British Pancakes and I used the wrong one. Our frying pan has a…