by Jan on November 25, 2009
I’d like to share a story with you. It starts kind of sad, but the ending is very joyful, very jubilant: In 1995, I bought a beautiful plain notebook with a specific intention. I’d always been a note-taker, a list-maker, but this was quite different. This journal was to be my companion as I sat [...]
We took our little chap to a cafe yesterday. Having popped him into a highchair, we ordered him some ‘bapple juice’ and, as doting parents and grandparents must do many times a day, fell for the Children’s Menu’s promise of a ‘Shortbread Sheep’. With indulgent smiles we ordered this sugary treat for our sweet boy [...]
Last week was marked by a sad farewell to my father-in-law. Though my dad died when I was four and my mother went some 14 years ago I am nevertheless very aware that many baby boomers are sharing this experience of saying farewell to our parents and moving into the front line. There was a such [...]
My boy (the grandson) has extraordinary focus. No I’m not just bragging, it’s true. People remark on it all the time. He’ll get involved in a toy, or an activity and he’ll be there for 20 minutes utterly involved, concentrating his teeny socks off. He was like it when he was a little baby. He’d [...]
Our wee grandson boy is two next month and the planning is under way. Last week I took delivery of one of our pressies – a wooden doll’s house. He always plays with one of these at a friend’s house and also at nursery, so it feels like a good choice. Of course, there’s the [...]