More Harry.

Not Debbie, though I have been enjoying a little Heart Of Glass again recently.
The Harry Potter game was a roaring success, sort of! I had to tweak the rules a little to stop Kevin from having a total and utter meltdown.
Turns out that though Kev can memorise endless lines of dialogue, he can’t really remember [...]

HARRY POTTER. Scene It?

Well we have been waiting on tenterhooks for our friend whom I will call Uncle Brick, to return from Vancouver with Kevin’s birthday present.
He promised the Harry Potter Scene It game for our resident Harry Potter expert. The promise was delivered yesterday.
We are having the grand opening tonight after dinner, so I thought I [...]

Really Bad Parenting.

You know who should be writing books on parenting?
11 year olds. 11 year old kids. They are brilliant, they are still young enough to want to be ‘childlike’, but old enough to have a decent grasp on reality.
I came to this understanding after having an impromptu chat about my parenting with the in-house 11 year [...]

Snow Country.

Brilliant day yesterday, snow and loads of it, impossible to get the car out, had to cancel work, hiked down to the supermarket with the chicklets.
Kevin was away at a sleep-over and Sunshine was sitting an exam so I just had the ‘easier’ ones with me, so we had a blast. My kids have seen [...]

The Universe Teases Me.

So could be the dream house deal fell through, it isn’t looking hopeful,but it ‘ain’t over till the fat lady sings’ as they say and so far I am not singing.
I think the Universe was teasing me but never mind there is a plan B.
Meanwhile two ’sick’ kids home, their combined temperatures wouldn’t constitute a [...]

A Potential Buyer!

So I am thinking that my leisurely day spent watching ‘Law and Order Special Victims Unit’ may have been better spent, cleaning up a little, perhaps removing some of the welington boots, soccer balls, skipping ropes and spoons from the floor of the genkan.
I have tried removing the spoons before but Jim is saving them [...]