admin So what’s a mum of four to do????!!! Our FIFO* Intn’l Man of Mystery is working right over Christmas and New Year; he’ll FO on December 11th and FI again on January 11th 2014. O me miserum!! ** With … Read More
I’m thrilled today to have a post sent over from Scotland by my younger sister, Morag. Mo, her husband and wee boys and my mum went to North Uist for their summer holidays in late July this year. They had … Read More
It’s going to be a slow and quiet day in the household today, well, for me at least.
You can’t stop the bairns being boisterous, even on a sad day. One of the many beauties of children.
Today a funeral is being held for our dear grandad and father-in-law Jim, in Ellon in the north east of Scotland. Our Intn’l Man of Mystery is there, saying goodbye to his dad.
Jeez, don’t ask me!!
Actually and seriously, I do have something to say on the subject of not coping, an area I have plenty of experience in.
This post is brought to you by all the people who’ve ever said to me and other mums of kids with additional needs kids/twins, triplets and more/ FIFO husbands/babies and toddlets etc etc
‘I don’t know how you cope?’
Well, the PLAN had been to write a good, long post about that grande old dame, the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba. I stayed there last Friday night, as a guest of the NSW Branch of the Australian Multiple Birth Club, … Read More
I knew full well there would be an emotional hangover after the trip to Scotland.
After all that sunshine and rain, all the laughter and tears, my feelings are tender.
And getting back into the kids’ school routines was like being hit by a tornado… with extra added jetlag.
Typical Scottish April weather we’ve been having here. Maybe a wee bit nippier than usual.
There’s sunshine when it’s raining, then lowering grey skies, then wee blue patches. Always changeable, very breezy.
You need to be prepared for all possibilities, and go nowhere without a waterproof, a hat, scarf and gloves.
Life’s like that too, isn’t it? Changeable.
So it struck me as we walked along this muddy farm track, that my wee lass has never really spent much time in mud.
What fun she’s missed!
A lovely cousin of mine has a house that was originally an old farm steading. We visited one day and went for a walk to see the lambs.
It was all Minnie The Minx’s idea. She’d seen some knitting needles in a shop and was keen to have a go.
AND we were heading to Scotland. Minnie is left-handed and so is my big sister.
‘Aunty Mairi can teach you to knit!’ I said. I like that passing-the-buck school of mothering, don’t you?
Well, it’s a long way from Sydney’s beautiful beaches! I heard that my hubby and Teen16 and Rusty Rocket were swimming in the sea yesterday at Jervis Bay. Not us here in Bonnie Scotland in April. The wind is perishing … Read More