Behind The Child

A knock at the door,  a parcel for Tia No deliveries expected, an early Christmas present?    A Cadbury...

Six years ago, I collected a small and somewhat fragile baby from hospital, and took him home for a while. I love having babies for Christma...

Sweetness is: a small child, waking up every morning and calling out "You are my favourite person in the whole wide world and in the un...

Nikki over at Blogs for a Cause is trying to raise money for Sarah's Covenant Homes . She interviewed me a few days ago, and here's...

Out into the void I send this year's newsletter. A few short pages to summarise a year in the life of one small child. A letter to peopl...

Tell people that you plan to adopt, and you'll get a huge variety of opinion, whether you want it or not. Some really helpful pieces of ...

When you check your diary for the week, and it says the respiratory nurse is doing a home visit on Monday morning, do not go back to bed aft...

I see there are a lot of you visiting after the Pick-Me-Up article discussion. (Non Mumsnetters, there was an article in the magazine about...

Is never going to be good. And a day which starts at 3 AM when your oldest child calls out in protest at what the cats have done under her b...

Today someone called me a child collector. They hadn't met me before, they were introducing me to someone I have met before but not seen...

Only one rogue poo this morning which has to be an improvement. And a small child awake early enough to do her homework before going in to s...

Small child awake and bouncy at 4, fast asleep again by the time I needed to start the day. By 7 AM one child awake, changed, dressed, and r...

Three children, three cats, just one pair of hands... I spent half an hour just now searching for an elusive cat poo, before realising that ...

waiting... Tia

"Die NOW!" she squeaks as I turn the engine on. I know I'm not the best driver, but it strikes me as a little previous, until ...

so today was the day we though we might just make it over to Shepton Mallet for the rest of New Wine '09. Wasn't to be. More pox yes...

Three parcels in the post this morning, hurrah. Except that the first was medical supplies for the Wahooligan, delivered to the wrong addres...

Ten years ago this week, I had a phonecall from a social worker, a call I never thought I would hear. "We've found a house, are you...

Does anyone know this man? He turned up on the doorstep on Tuesday morning, and told me he had come to paint our front door. I said I didn...

We had a tea party at Helen House this afternoon. No scones with clotted cream, sadly, but we just about made do with the piles of other c...