I have come to a decision. I am not going to confront my ex about K and her 6 yr old daughter (I forgot to mention that she has a daughter in my last post) moving in, I am going to wait for him to tell me. I have my reasons for this:
If I initiate [...]
A conversation over dinner with Sonny:
Sonny: “K is moving in with Papa.”
Me: “What do you mean?”
Sonny: “She is not going to live in her house anymore.”
Me: “Do you know when she is moving in?”
Sonny: “In December…I think.”
I knew this day would come, but I wasn’t quite sure how I would feel about it when [...]
The other morning I came downstairs to find Sonny sitting on the sofa with a stone the size of a large avocado tucked under his bottom.
“Er…Sonny…why are you sitting on a stone?” I enquired, as any normal mother would.
“It’s not a stone,” he sighed, lifting his left butt cheek to give me a better look. “It’s a [...]
Sonny woke up at 2.45 this morning and didn’t go back to sleep until 6. He couldn’t sleep. He was “too excited.” Today was his first day at primary school – he has already spent three years at the Maternelle. We have been preparing for it for weeks. Scouring the shops, trying to find everything [...]
Yesterday I sat on the floor playing ‘Snakes and Ladders’ with Sonny.
The first time he landed on a snake he got frustrated and wanted to get up and walk away. I told him the game wasn’t over yet, that he still had a chance to win and if he continued to play, with the [...]
I have.
This morning I had a rottweiler from the bank trying to frighten me into upping the repayments on a £23,000 loan I have been saddled with since leaving my ex. After going through my monthly income and expenditure (bills, petrol, food etc), and talking to me like a naughty child, we established that I [...]
Tomorrow I am going to visit ‘the family.’ Not just my parents but my grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins. The last time I saw them was just before I moved to France 6 years ago. I did the ‘goodbye tour’ thinking it might be the last time I would see some of my grandparents – [...]
“It all started with the van not starting. Fully loaded with anticipation, two anxious adults, a teething baby, one fidgety dog and mountains of badly packed furniture; key in ignition…nothing. A flat battery meant everyone out and a two-hour delay while it charged enough to take us to the channel tunnel. Broken windscreen wipers and [...]
