Who ate the dessert?

    I made a lemon curd tart for dessert today. There were fingerprints in it. 16-month-old Bel says it wasn’t her. What do you think?                         Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on faves Buzz it up… Read More

Video special: How they’ve grown! Twins Libby and Anna’s 2nd year antics

      They were born in front of a television camera and haven’t stopped performing since. Libby and Anna are now two-years-old and we’ve seen them grow from tiny little pink bundles of shock (I thought I was destined to continue my run of boys), to two bigger bundles of cheekiness and character. See… Read More

You know you have a large family when…

    Very few of us are thrown into the situation where we gain a large family overnight. It grows gradually, and we adapt and change as it does so. We don’t look at our family as big or small. It’s just our family. We don’t notice it until something happens which makes you stop… Read More

Strange gift requests: What kids really want for Christmas… according to our readers!

    A few weeks ago our eight-year-old asked for a bag of carrots for Christmas. ‘What for?’ I asked him. ‘To eat,’ he replied ‘They’re just so tasty!’ And so I wondered whether it was just our children who had a tendency to be slightly odd at times. After asking our readers about their… Read More

Parenting Moments: Parenting Moment #1

    You know that parenting moment when you think your two-year-old twins are sleeping but you discover they’ve been playing with their brother’s (non-toxic) chemistry set instead? That.    I’m thinking of creating a new series called ‘Parenting Moments’. If you have a parenting moment you’d like to share please email a pic and description… Read More

For any parent who has ever had one of those days

      Twas the hour before bedtime and all through the house, All the creatures were stirring, except for the mouse. The rodent, you see, packed his bags, quickly fled, To escape all the stress since the kids rose from bed.   The children awoke from their sleep one by one, Not quietly no,… Read More