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Pretending to be grown up, married and parenting two children... but I'm still Nunn the Wiser

Drinking in the Sun

August 20, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Readers, we are in week 693 of the school summer holidays and we are all still alive. I attribute this amazing success to my brilliant invention of the Summer Holiday Imbibing Task (SHIT). Basically, children are dicks. You know they’re dicks. I know they’re dicks. Being with them 24 hours a day, 7 days a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Potty training, toddler, Travel Tagged: children are dicks, holiday, Legoland, summer, summer holiday drinking game, summer holidays, tantrum, toddler

Sleep Talk

August 14, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Both girls are decent sleepers, now. I say that, aware that many other parents are reading this, already thinking, “Bitch,” but I promise the sleep is hard-won. For the first six months of YoungestGirl’s life, she would not sleep night or day for longer than 20 minutes. Imagine it. You have given birth. You are knackered. You … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Family, Sleep, toddler Tagged: baby, bad sleeping, breastfeeding, cry it out, gradual withdrawal, nap refusal, naps, nightmares, sleep, sleep training

Happy Holidays

July 31, 2018 by NunntheWiser

And so the holidays draw to a happy close… Wait, what? What the fuck do you mean we’re only one week in? You are shitting kidding me. So far – in a week – we have done: London Sealife Centre, London Eye, Shrek Adventure, swimming, cinema, a picnic, McDonalds, Chessington and Legoland, and frankly I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Potty training, school, toddler, Travel Tagged: Chessington, Legoland, London Aquarium, London Eye, London Sealife Centre, Merlin, Merlin passes, potty training, school holidays, Shrek Adventure, tantrums

Amazing Reception

July 24, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Today is EldestGirl’s last day of Reception. I have to say – all modesty aside (seriously aside – wait for it) – I have absolutely nailed it. Honestly, if anyone has had a better year than me, I want to see evidence. This year…. We have read with both children daily. We have learned times … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, feminism, Reception, school Tagged: adult gap year, children, feminism, first day of reception, housework, last day of reception, organisation, parenting, reception, tantrums, time management, wifework

Butterflies

July 10, 2018 by NunntheWiser

A gentle summer’s breeze. It’s just the right temperature to sit in the shade. A dog’s bark drifts from the distance. Children play in the paddling pool. Ice chinks gently in a glass. The grass feels cool underfoot. The word “idyllic” pops into your head unbidden. And then. And then… It is summarily ruined. By a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family Tagged: butterflies, fears, lepidoptera, moths, phobia, pigeon, summer

Mama Drama

June 26, 2018 by NunntheWiser
waitrose magazine june 2018

On Tuesday evenings, EldestGirl goes to Rainbows, and I kill the hour, happily for the most part, firstly at Waitrose, filling my trolley with yellow-stickered reduced goodness, and secondly, sitting outside – if the weather allows – with a coffee, reading until it is time to collect EldestGirl. I am fairly inconspicuous. I have observed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family Tagged: eavesdropping, mamma mia, rainbows, Waitrose, waterside theatre

Fete Accompli*

June 24, 2018 by NunntheWiser

“That’s an interesting point, Steve,” I might once have said, “because we do need to drill down into the global footprint and get  granular data on our diverse global reach. Let’s grab the low-hanging EMEA fruit today, and then schedule a universal deep-dive to be cascaded at next week’s town hall. Our steering group will … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, school, Work Tagged: all the cucumbers, business jargon, corporate events, cucumber, cucumbers, fete. pimms, pimms and lemonade, school fete, still more cucumbers

String Theory

June 18, 2018 by NunntheWiser

We have too many toys. We have far too many toys. Our playroom looks like Fisher Price himself threw up all over the place. Our living room – initially intended to be an adult sanctuary, away from the toys in the playroom – looks like a cross between a run-down soft play and a discount … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family Tagged: arguments, fisher price, rows, siblings, squabbling, string, toys

Half-term Horizon

June 7, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Honestly, half term sort of snuck up on me. I was aware there was a bank holiday, and that looming at some point, there would be a half term, but I hadn’t properly, properly realised it was here until… it was here. We had planned… nothing. Shit. I desperately tried to overcompensate. Day One We made cornflour … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Food, school Tagged: baking, baking with children, challah bread, chocolate challah bread, cornflour goop, EldestGirl, half term, painting, pottery, pottery painting with children, swimming, swimming with children, when will half term be over, YoungestGirl

Clothes maketh the (wo)man

May 28, 2018 by NunntheWiser
EldestGirl with bow

We have always made an effort with both of our daughters, not to stereotype, not to call things “girly”, or to use words like “tomboy”. We preach that all colours are for everybody, that looking beautiful is less important than being kind. That being kind is important, but so is being clever. It has mostly … [Read more…]

Posted in: feminism, school Tagged: EldestGirl, feminism, gender, stereotypes, YoungestGirl
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