About 7 months ago, I gave up refined sugar. Seriously. Since then, I have carefully avoided anything with white, cane or brown sugar in it…* Yet this morning I bought chocolate: 2 medium-sized boxes of Roses chocolates and 3 assorted packets of “treat-sized” chocolates: Crunchie, Milky Way, Maltesers. To give away, you understand, what with the festive […]
I just found out that the other day my youngest daughter, who is 8 years old, whispered to my very good friend : “You are a terrible mother!” Well it may not have been exactly that blunt, but it was along those lines… Then she leaned in further and backed it up with her own […]
Virtuous and Terrible. That is me as Mother. Since I have become: “Mummy………. Mummeeeeeeeee!” Demanding and demanded. Giving and totally spent. Usually, simply because of the comparable percentage of time spent alone with them, it’s me and not their Daddy who bears the brunt of our children’s excessive delightfulness and sheer selfish rudeness. I discover […]