Smells like Heaven

They did a test recently on a TV programme to see if a mother could tell her baby’s nappy just by smell. Sounds gross huh? There were four mother and child teams, each mother fed her child the same food, they wore the same nappies and clothes and when the business was completed the [...]

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Snakes on a worktop!

This afternoon we had a new arrival and we are now a family of six! The bank balance is now two hundredish euro lighter and we have a little red snake, about a foot long and about the width of a biro, living in a little tank (v.secure) in the corner of the living room! [...]

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100th post!

Okay, so this is post number one hundred, I started this blog on the 1st of May this year my youngest was less than a month old and it was meant to keep me sane in the first few months (years) of his life! So here I am months later now writing on two [...]

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Snakes on a (parallel) Plane!

Hey I’m getting a snake! Take that mid life Crisis! I’ve written about it here, check it out!

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Mammy’s little helper.

I think I need some kind of drug, some Prozac or tequila or something, is gin mothers little helper? Today I wish I’d never had children…..any children, not the first the second or the third! Some days I feel like this, usually because my little guys have driven me demented from morning to night, today [...]

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Bra Wars

So my husband decided to buy me some underwear last night…..sounds like the start of a really funny post about how he bought me two sizes too big or too small! But I’m sorry to disappoint you,but my hubby is one of those metrosexual males who knows my bra size (40D, in case you want [...]

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Knocked Up!

Hubby and I went to see Knocked up, now usually our night to the cinema are fractious, he likes films in Latvian about some crazed dictator, I like the earlier funny stuff! So usually someone compromises, usually me, but last night even though my hubby really wanted to see The Bourne Ultimatum we went [...]

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I’m angry and I need Sugar!

I hate Mondays……My husband is here over the weekend so I have adult company and I get a little bit of time to myself, I can pop into my neighbour for a chat without bring the kids and all the stuff that we have to haul around when we go anywhere! Monday it’s up at [...]

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Stranger Danger!

I’m an idiot, I’m the kind of woman who winds up on the nine o’clock news, found dead in her own home after inviting in her assailant! When I was a teenager I was in a little (gang) group of kids and we called ourselves “The happy Spas”…..in my case it’s still true. I’d [...]

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Music For Fridays!

Flash back central tonight, watching VH1 and on comes Altered Images and “Don’t talk to me about love”, from 1983, I was a prepubescent ten year old and Claire Grogan was so cool! Remember her from the episode of Father Ted when she played the mad rock star?

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CAKE

I’m off to the Queen of Tarts tonight….yummy! I think I’m into cakes the way some people are into porn, I bring books about baking into bed with me, the looking at the books, deciding what to bake, buying the ingredients, preparing everything, then the actual baking it’s all like foreplay, followed by the climax….eating [...]

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Blast from my past!

I was watching the top 100 Pop Videos on Channel 4 tonight and one of my favorite bands of all time was featured, so here’s something that (in a dark gloomy way) makes me feel all warm and squishy inside!

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Forgive and Forget?

I was driving through the Phoenix park on Friday, just me and the baby (who was snoozing in his baby seat), I was pondering my life and the stuff (crap) that’s playing on my mind at the moment. You see cos the kids and my hubby are always around although I’m often lonely and isolated [...]

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