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Grandparents need quality time too

04 Thursday Apr 2013

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My toddler is lucky. Really, really lucky. She has two sets of grandparents who adore her.

She’s been adored from the moment they met her.

Grandparents and baby

In fact, as I write this, my little girl is with one set of grandparents (my parents) down in Devon, on her own. And you know what? That’s how it should be.

My daughter’s grandparents love her and want to spend time with her and I like that they (sometimes) get to do that without me. Frog’s completely comfortable with both Grandma and Granddad, Marmar and Dadaz. Continue reading »

Hero worship

09 Thursday Aug 2012

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My daughter has a new best friend.

She has “in jokes” with him. She tickles him. She teases him. And she can’t get enough of him.

Frog and the (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine are best buddies at the moment. Forever friends. BFF’s.

Whatever you want to call it, they’re getting along very well. So well, in fact, I’m starting to feel a bit left out. Continue reading »

Who’s the Daddy? (The long road)

15 Wednesday Jun 2011

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It’s four o’clock in the afternoon and I haven’t slept for two days.

I can hear our new baby screaming downstairs as her dad tries to comfort her. I close my eyes and sink deeper into the bath I’ve been looking forward to since giving birth 24 hours earlier.

When the screams get louder I run downstairs, naked and soaking wet, to check all is well. It isn’t. The (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine is pacing up and down with the tiny Frog on his shoulder, trying to calm her. He looks terrified. Continue reading »