Fair Weather Parenting – My Naïve Mind’s Eye
So all this fair summer weather has the country in flying form these days. Everyone seems to be up for doing mad stuff altogether. People are losing the plot with festivals and picnics, trips to the...
View Article10 Cheap and Easy Kids Meals – á la Dad
Let’s not beat around the bush here! We would all love to feed our kids meal after meal of well balanced, nutritional food to ensure they grow up healthy, strong and full of beans. The reality however,...
View ArticleBalancing Life – Finding the time…
So my plan today was to get home early (aka ‘on time’) from work, have my dinner, play with Diego for a while, catch up with herself, fix the hoover, and then write a really cool and insightful post on...
View ArticleSharing is Caring…sometimes…with some of my toys!
This weekend just gone I saw a new side to Diego. He is learning, seems to be growing up faster and is beginning to notice differences between himself and others. Most notably he has learned that he is...
View ArticleTwo Months with my Mother-in-Law
In the last number of years it seems the Irish are marrying “dem foreigners” like never before. I did a quick search on Google there but couldn’t find any real stats. However, at least in my case, the...
View ArticleTwo Months with my Son-in-Law
Two weeks ago I wrote a post on surviving spending “Two Months with My Mother-in-Law”. She was over visiting us from Peru. While coming up with the idea for that post I got to wondering what is must be...
View ArticleThe Weekly Shop – Online – so Gangsta right now!
To go online or brave the madness that is the shopping centre floor on the lower South Side. So my sister is always at me to try Tesco’s Online Shopping. In spite of her pointing out its many benefits,...
View ArticleJunior Infants is Hard Work!
For 30 birthdays and 30 kids he laboured through the relentless desert that is Junior Infants birthday party madness. So I haven’t been posting on the blog much at all recently. I’m just not finding...
View ArticleMid-Term Break: Family Things To Do in Dublin
So Diego is on his mid-term this week and I naively decided to take the week off and hang out with him. Of course, I was expecting to be able to relax a little, read a book or two, catch up on some...
View ArticleWho’s better…Mums or Dads?
With children comes lots of learning new things, like parenting and making sure we don’t raise crap people. Some people learn faster than others. Sometimes we might pretend we can’t learn certain...
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