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Bribery and Bitter Lemons

I gave all three children a cookie today. Nothing very unusual about that. Except that it was 7.55am. It was a bribe. I was bribing them out of the house to go to school. When that only partially worked, I gave them another cookie each. Before I knew it, I had three girls, in uniform,Continue reading “Bribery and Bitter Lemons”

Rapunzel’s Tidy Time

‘Sam do you know what I’m going to do now?’ I am looking at the living room floor, except that I’m not because I can’t see it, covered as it is with dressing up clothes. Strewn across the floor. I start picking them up in arm fills and stuffing them back into the dressing upContinue reading “Rapunzel’s Tidy Time”