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Parenting, marriage, multi-generational living and stuff that makes me cross. Probably mostly parenting though.

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Birth Story

After dinner that night I took a pill for the surgery then went nil-by-mouth. On Friday we woke at five, I fought through the morning sickness that still plagued me at 38 weeks pregnant to take a shower, and we got in the car and drove to Wellington hospital.

Posted byTaraOctober 12, 2020Posted inParentingTags:birth, Parenting, twin mum, twinsLeave a comment on Birth Story

Those People

Warning: poos. The other day I was on the loo and the kids wandered into the bathroom to see what I was doing. I used to shut the bathroom door as a line-in-the-sand type move, figuring I was at the very least owed a few minutes of privacy. But these days they hit each otherContinue reading “Those People”

Posted byTaraApril 1, 2020Posted inParentingTags:Parenting, poo, twin mum, twins1 Comment on Those People

A-holes

I never thought my kids would become a-holes so young. I mean, I know that a lot of people say that toddlers are a-holes but I thought that was kind of, you know, they are always needing and wanting things and they are really noisy about it, a-holes in that kind of way. But no,Continue reading “A-holes”

Posted byTaraJanuary 29, 2020March 27, 2020Posted inParentingTags:Parenting, twin mum, twins1 Comment on A-holes

Apricots

SCENE: We are all in the kitchen. I am trying to start the chocolate custard for the Christmas trifle while Barns makes the kids’ afternoon tea. Nora and June (both 2) are tootling around underfoot. Me: I’m not really feeling the Christmas spirit this year. It’s like I just don’t have room in my brainContinue reading “Apricots”

Posted byTaraJanuary 22, 2020May 7, 2020Posted inParentingTags:Parenting, twin mum, twins1 Comment on Apricots
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