She’s a real chatterbox my wee girl and had been jabbering on like this for five minutes before I started to tape. When I played this back for her she was all interested and tried to have a conversation with herself. It goes for three minutes so feel free to cut it short.

The saying may be “blood is thicker than water” but the truth is anything but. Family is a whole bunch of different personalities thrust together by one simple thing, a shared bloodline. Unlike with friends you can’t really discard the family members you don’t like, at least not easily, no matter how much you might [...]

You may have noticed that I don’t really do the “Dear Child” monthly letters. It’s not for any philosophical reasons, I just forget or else have been so busy with general life stuff that I don’t get time. That said, I really do try to watch all the new things my kids do. Time slips [...]

Is it still eavesdropping if the conversation you’re hearing is really, really loud? This is my dilemma. The woman across the road is always on the phone in the mornings, the mornings when I’m still sitting on the lounge trying to wake up and come to terms with the impending day. She talks loudly enough [...]

So, I’ve been searching around all morning trying to figure out what I should blog about today but nothing came to mind. After putting the dishwasher through and starting a new loaf in the bread maker it hit me, this is one of the things I do when no one is pestering me. Of course, [...]