Category Archives: Harpenden
Which Way Now?
We’re All Going on a Job Hunt…
I mentioned in a post last week that we’d done our application for DorkySon’s reception place. With that task out of the way, I’ve had to turn my attention to the other big thing that I knew this year would bring.
Job-hunting.
*weeps quietly*
As the start of school will mean that DorkySon will be in someone else’s care for five full days a week, rather than just the three mornings that he currently spends in nursery, the time has come for me to find some kind of gainful employment. Continue reading
Project 52: Week 50

Just a very simple iPhone shot this week, but it’s to remind me how lovely our walks to nursery are on winter mornings. I haven’t tweaked this at all – it really was the colour of the sky this morning.
Live in the Now: December
When my friend Caroline was still blogging as Scribbling Mum (and before she’d started a bid for book-related world domination with the Green Door Bookshop) she ran a monthly post called Live in the Now, where she took time to sit and write a round-up post of all the things going on in her family’s lives, and to appreciate those small happy moments that come from being a parent
I haven’t done one of those posts in a while, but it seems like a nice time of year to pause and take stock of where we are.
As I type, DorkySon is at nursery, having a final run-through of his nativity before we are invited to go and watch. There is a cardboard and tinfoil crown sitting on the dining room table, along with a red velvet cloak that we have borrowed from a friend. I cannot wait to see my little King sing his heart out this afternoon.


