This weekend has seen my Daughter completely nail three separate achievements in the various activities we do with her. Everything seemed to click with her and I’m bursting with pride. It’s also a perfect opportunity to open up the blog and get it down on paper. Erm, screen….. Anyway – here’s the story: Achievement No 1 – Swimming The start of the weekend is always swimming lessons first thing on a Saturday morning. iBear is currently going through stage 2…
All too often I find myself thinking of what I should write about on my blog. I’m just over six months in and I’m trying to not get obsessed with how many posts I should be writing and what topics I should cover. Things need to come natural for me to maintain my enjoyment in producing my little corner of the internet and this post is an example of this. Recently, I’ve been amazed with my Daughters caring and considerate…
My last couple of posts have focused a little on the down sides of parenting life. In order to redress that I thought I’d write about the nice day we had together yesterday. Thursdays are our “Daddy Daughter” days. Thanks to a new arrangement with my job, this year I am able to do the school run whilst squeezing in a solid five and half hours of work in between. This has meant I can have some quality time with my Daughter…
I’ve reached a stage of my daughters life which can only be described as the “fourmidable” years. Over the last couple of months her personality and attitude has changed a little. I still see the kind, sensitive soul who makes me laugh daily and who’s bursting with love. She can chat to anyone who’ll listen and even those who don’t, seriously, there’s no stopping her! But, whats becoming increasingly more noticeable is a cheeky, backchatting, grumpy attitude. She’s becoming a…
I LOVE Christmas, always have. We have a relatively small family but we always try to get as many of us together as possible. I have some wonderful memories of the many happy times we’ve shared. Becoming a parent has enabled me to try and pass on this joy to my Daughter and this is the first year I’ve thought we can fully appreciate it. It didn’t seem to go quite to plan…. It was all going so well. Our…
So I was tagged into this by Stuart at threetimedaddy. Thanks mate….. I’ve got to be honest I very nearly bottled it but here I am, it’s 22:20 on a Tuesday evening. I’m tired and I need a pee. Lets do this! The Basics 1 What’s your name? Neil. 2 Any nicknames or aliases? Other than “Daddy”, nope. 3 Your gender? Male. 4 Your star sign? Libra. 5 How old are you? Early 40s. 6 Your relationship status? Married. 7 Any…
We’ve had a voucher for a horse ride lesson burning a hole in my wallet for months now. We got it for around £10-£15 and as such I wasn’t expecting a lot from it. The deadline for using it was fast approaching so we decided to book up a couple of weekends ago. What a brilliant experience! Here’s how we got on. The intro We arrived at the equestrian centre, checked in and followed the others in the group to…
Ok, this seems to be a controversial subject. Opinion is very much divided on social media (when is it ever not?) about the old elf on the shelf tradition. I personally love the premise, although I draw the line at posting endless pictures about the escapades. We’ve decided this year to join the elf on the shelf brigade having used a similar elf from the elf company previously. How did it go down? Well read on (please, it’s Christmas after…
We’ve hit a bit of a problem with school. iBear has started saying she doesn’t like it there anymore and it’s getting her really upset. It all started just before the school holidays when she developed a little bit of an obsession about needing to go to the toilet in case she wet herself. The only thing we could get out of her about this was that she’d seen a couple of children having accidents at school and it had…
I can’t believe we’ve arrived at the October half term holiday. Where has that time gone?! Just seven weeks ago my wife and I were gibbering nervous wrecks wondering how on earth our little girl would cope going from two days of nursery to full time education. There was also concern over how we would manage with a huge change of routine. We’ve been so comfortable in the last couple of years and all that was going to change. Panic!…