The kids are back in school: normal life is here again!

It's become fashionable to create a bucket list. A list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Usually there are things on that list like: Swimming with dolphins Traveling through India with just a backpack Making a trip in a hot air balloon Getting in a cage with a pair of...

Last night happened, what many had feared: our little nest was cruelly murdered! Scully and Mulder suspect an evil squirrel made his way through the kitchen window, and hid in the cupboard till everyone had gone to bed. Then this evil squirrel made his way to the little nest and had himself a dinner party....

I recently read a book about menopause, also known as The Change. I thought that books couldn't scare me anymore after reading Stephen King's 'Christine' about a car that's possessed. But this one did! Because The Change is out there, and it's coming for you and for me! Unless you're man of course. But even...

  I love solitude. And peace and quiet. So imagine me having 5 children. Whom I love dearly by the way and I wouldn't want to miss them for the world. I miss being alone But I do miss being me. Just me, myself and I. There's always someone around. Sometimes I feel like I'm...

… and I'll smile if I want to! Nine years ago today, after a punishing heatwave and five weeks of Summer Vacation spent all alone with four children*, I gave birth to my youngest son Pete. Secretly I had been hoping he might just fall out, keeping the labor easy and light, but no such...