I Am A Failure!

It came to my attention on Saturday morning that Child Number Two, who is 9 years old, cannot ties her own laces! I thought she was joking at first until she insisted that she really couldnt do them and that "I always ask people to teach me, but no one does". Poor thing!

Now that I sit and think about it in the last few years when learning to tie laces is high on any child's 'list' she has always had slip on shoes, boots with zippers and sneakers with elastic.

Am I really too busy that I cant spare her a few minutes to teach her a 'life lesson'? Now I feel bad. However, she can straighten her own hair and do her nails as well as any nail technician within a fifty mile radius! So maybe in 2010 life lessons are different to the ones I learnt when I was her age. I am off now to loop and swoop.

Baby Blues: A Letter to My Baby

The baby is about to turn a year old in a few days time. Where did the year go? How did this happen so fast?

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I adore each new step, the toothy smiles, the army commando crawl when you are 'on a mission', the way you dance at anything with even the remotest hint of a beat.

But I would happily go back to the day you arrived and do it all again, and again and again! Those first few minutes when I saw your face for the first time, the "ahah, it was you kicking me all the time" moment! The very first second we met you it was love at first sight and we haven't fallen out yet!

So, if I try very (VERY) hard I can get excited at the prospect of your first birthday, but secretly I will still be working on an 'everlasting babyhood' potion..... x