I haven’t been this excited since my Mum bought me a Cindy doll in 1988.
Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are is my favourite book of all time. My Granddad bought me it when I was five years old, and a few months later I had listened to the story so many times that I [...]
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Roll On October!
Posted in Books, Childcare, Children, Everybody's Talking About, Teaching, growing up, inspiration, tagged Books, childhood, Maurice Sendak, Movies, October, Spike Jonze, Where The Wild Things Are, WTWTA on June 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Quarter of a Century..
Posted in Love, Motherhood, Personal, Relationships, Teaching, growing up, men, parenting, tagged 25, birthday, Family, Life, mother, secret, teacher, twenty five, wife on February 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am a quarter of a century old today.
(And coincidentally, this is also my blog’s 100th post)
I have done nothing I had planned to do before I hit this milestone.
And I am nowhere near.
I have done little I am proud of, and little that I regret.
My mistakes make me who I am, and my achievements [...]
Christmas Wishes..
Posted in Blog Pimping, Childcare, Children, England, Everybody's Talking About, Eye Candy, Family, Rant, Relationships, Secrets, Sex, Teaching, Weird and Wonderful, blogging, culture, growing up, humour, women, tagged Alan Rickman, apologies, Baby, Best Friend, Blog Pimping, Blogs, Burton Hillis, Cars, Childcare, Christmas, Christmas List, Christmas Wishes, Dear Santa, Education, Family, Fantasy, Forgiveness, Genie, Gina, Granddad, Have The T Shirt, humour, Jimmy Choo, Magic Lamp, Marriage, Mel Gibson, Mid-Life Crisis, Mother In Law, Multiple Orgasms, quotes, Santa, Shar Pei, Shoes, Teachers, Teaching, Thank you, Threesome, Unrealistic, Wedding, Wishes, Xmas on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Have The T-Shirt’s recent post has inspired me! With the dismal cloud of Christmas looming over us, I’m going to follow in her footsteps, and make a list for Santa!
This isn’t a list of presents I’m going to buy other people, nor is it a list of presents I’d like. It’s a list of (mostly [...]
Eighteen Empty Years..
Posted in Children, Family, Love, Personal, Relationships, growing up, tagged Family, Granddad, Relationships, Death, quotes, Grandparents, Helen Keller, Allphonse de Lamartine on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated
- Allphonse de Lamartine
It’s over eighteen years since my Granddad died. I’m close to the majority of my family, but I was closest to him. And since the day he passed, the world has seemed a little emptier than it should. There’s been a [...]
Childhood Fears..
Posted in Childcare, Children, Personal, Psychology, growing up, tagged bedtime, buried alive, childhood, Children, claustrophobic, Dad, Daddy, dogs, failure, Fear, growing up, Kids, marie curie, monsters, moths, quotes, scared, scary, spiral staircase, understanding on September 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie.
What were you most scared of as a child? Are you still scared of those same things now?
When I was a kid, I wasn’t scared of anything. There were no monsters under my bed, there were no skeletons in the [...]
Forgive and Forget..
Posted in Family, Love, Personal, Relationships, Secrets, growing up, men, women, tagged apologies, Best Friend, Best Friends, bestfriend, Bride, bridesmaid, bullshit, childhood, engaged, Fiancé, Friends, Friendship, Groom, growing up, Love, Marriage, Mistakes, Relationships, Wedding, wedding ring, weddings on September 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After ignoring my calls for a significant amount of time, my best friend called, and said the three words I dreaded most..
“Can we talk?”
And so, we talked.
(Well, he bullshitted, and I listened.)
“I didn’t mean it, any of it, it was just pre-wedding jitters, and I’m sorry.
I know I’m an asshole for complicating things, so can [...]
To Have, To Hold, To Regret..
Posted in Family, Love, Personal, Relationships, Secrets, growing up, men, tagged Marriage, The Other-Half, Secrets, Best Friend, Joni Mitchell, Lucky Girl, Fiancé, Wedding on August 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
My best friend is getting married. (Yes, he beat me to it, the bastard.)
Thank God we wont have to honour our 30-year-old-and-single agreement though (everyone has one of those, right?). The thought of spending the second half of my life sleeping next to his hairy back and loud snoring is enough to tip [...]
New Beginnings..
Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Motherhood, Teaching, Work, growing up, inspiration, parenting, preschool, tagged career, Childcare, childhood, Children, employment, freedom, growing up, inspiration, inspire, job satisfaction, kindergarten, kindergarten teacher, muhammad ali, nursery, nursery teacher, Work on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Muhammad Ali said that children make you want to start life over. That quote sums up exactly how I feel about my new job.. It was a chance to start over, and I certainly feel as though I have and I do, every single day.
I get up at 6am every morning to be [...]
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