tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34534183109220208622024-03-14T08:53:11.969-07:00Four Boys Live HereFour Boys Live Herehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06059801595434009884noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453418310922020862.post-49262673973269952662015-09-21T13:13:00.002-07:002015-09-21T13:14:34.800-07:00Catch up!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There's a suggestion that jet lag doesn't really exist when travelling to the Northern Hemisphere. I say RUBBISH. Waking at 3.30 am wasn't something I had on my agenda, but it was useful. When do other bloggers blog? </b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D had to use 2 hands. One seriously heavy bird.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It was our last night in Salisbury. We move to our next destination tomorrow. A family meal at the Three Crowns Pub was called for and enjoyed by all. We have been thoroughly looked after during our visit. It was an absolute pleasure to have these people as part of our holiday. We love every single one of them. xxxx</b></span></div>
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Four Boys Live Herehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06059801595434009884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453418310922020862.post-63409374816897947042015-09-15T23:22:00.001-07:002015-09-15T23:37:30.191-07:00Pleeeeaaassseee Muuuuuummmm!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There's a school in heaven or the uterus or stork land, or wherever babies come from. Every child must attend. Every child graduates. My children graduated at the top of their class, Magna Cum Laude. Now they're bloody Associate Professors, experts, schooled in every way known to man in the art of nagging. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Goughy will tell you I'm an expert too, but I am a nagging pleb compared to my boys. It starts small. Just a simple question. The answer I give is irrelevant. It's like water off a ducks back, like a basketball shot that misses the hoop entirely. It grows - the same question but asked after a quick "I love you', or at the completion of all their jobs. My God they're good. What I need to do is Slam Dunk that ball right now. Answer the question and enforce it with a threat of death if it's asked again, but I'm weak. I might be making dinner or preparing tomorrows lessons or pinning on Pinterest. I'm distracted and I'm dumb. I forget about yesterdays experience with nagging and the day before and the day before that. I try another non committal answer in an attempt to appease the gods. It's a rookie mistake, one I repeatedly make. They've seen a chink in my armour, a weak link in my defence. They see a glimmer of hope because I haven't threatened death. The two of them, with tiny glances at each other and using the ancient, secret language of nagging, launch an all out assault on me and bring out the big guns - the whine. Whine is very different to wine. Either one works on me, but thankfully children are not allowed to purchase alcohol to support their nagging attacks. "Plleeeeaaaassseee Muum, pleeeeeeeeaaaaassssseeee."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I cave. Please Lord make the noise go away. "Yes boys, yes you can have that, you can pretty much have whatever you want, just leave this vicinity immediately." I'm bruised and battered and ashamed. And reality has just set in. What have I done? What have I just promised them, just so I could pin one more pin in peace? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Today's excursion is the result of an especially brutal nagging attack. Paul brought me some touristy brochures and left them on the coffee table for me to look through. The boys found the <a href="http://www.longleat.co.uk/">Longleat</a> one and the rest is history. I'm secretly glad because this happened......</b></span><br />
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<br />Four Boys Live Herehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06059801595434009884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453418310922020862.post-20705052479088304572015-09-14T22:00:00.000-07:002015-09-14T22:00:00.872-07:00Monday Madness<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There are 350 odd very steep steps to the top tower of the Salisbury Cathedral with a stunning vista to behold at the top. We had booked and paid for our journey online but according to the reception manager, how we had managed it was truly a miracle because there were no tours of any description allowed all week. The Magna Flora preparations were in full swing. It's the 8ooth year celebrations of the Magna Carta here in Salisbury and so the mostly older (read, really old) general public are losing their minds with all sorts of revelry and shenanigans. Decorating the Cathedral with flower installations is going off like a frog in a sock.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jane has left her home to us. Just like that. I've never met Jane. She is the Mother of my brother's partner, Kerry. She has allowed us to use her home for our 5 night stay so that we can hang out with Paul and Kerry. She packed up her bag, gave me a hug and the key and went to visit her sister in Cornwall. Her generosity is astounding and we are extremely grateful. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After an attempted snooze - unsuccessful for me, but not too bad for the zombies - we met Paul and Kerry and their two fur babies Tika and Tango, and were off for a walk around Salisbury. You're probably going to think I'm exaggerating, but I kid you not, around every corner and along every lane (Salisbury doesn't have paths - too bland, they have lanes - devastatingly beautiful lanes) there were breath taking views and centuries old buildings with history and culture and stories just oozing from every fibre. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>History does my head in, in a good way. I love that I can occupy the same spaces, walk the same lanes, shop in the same shops as people; mothers, from 700 years ago. I try and picture their life. Where did they live? What were they wearing? What were their concerns? Probably similar to mine - how to get some peace and quiet from their squabbling 7 and 11 year old sons! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The name for my blog comes from the obvious, four boys live in this house. They have such a huge impact on my life, my day, my thoughts; who I am. My husband, my son of 22 (from a previous life) and the two Little Doers, aged 8 and 4 ("nearly 5 Mum!") all share this space. It can get very hectic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is the first day of the New Year. It's an exciting time. Goughy and I are excited. We have awesome plans for our home, for our family, for our future. I can't wait to get it started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boys had a late night last night, playing in the garden with us, watching on. It was a peaceful night, punctuated only by the occasional sibling argument and happy car horn wishing the neighbourhood a Happy New Year. I didn't see in the New Year. I rarely make it past 10pm these days. Gone are the days when New Years Eve was planned for months in advance. Venue meticulously chosen from the scores on offer, frock agonised over, shoes bought and worn in at least 3 weeks in advance to prevent an early New Years Eve retirement. Last night and the preceding 8 or 9 have all been enjoyable but quiet and sensible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scott is in Mexico. I spoke with him yesterday. It will be his New Years Eve now. I miss him. I hope he is safe. He and Claire are likely to be looking for a place of their own when he returns. I think it's time but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want him to stay. We'll see how things go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today started lazily, a sleep in until 7.15. Almost unheard of. I normally wake before the boys but not today. The sound of Kaden's baby elephant foot steps roused me. At 7am I would have been checking his breathing - he is a super early riser, always has been. We played iPad games together and did a bit of a tidy up before heading off to see a movie - <i>Wreck it Ralph</i>. The boys enjoy our company. I can tell. D has a quiet grin, a secret smile to himself and to me which speaks volumes of how much he is enjoying himself. Kaden is more demonstrative. He must have some part of his body connected to mine or to Goughy's at all times. Not in a clingy, needy, pain in the ass kind of way; but in a I'm happy you're here and I wanna hug you kind of way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Copious amounts of popcorn and numerous visits to the toilet later, the movie ends and we're home for a relaxing afternoon in the pool and garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm eating paleo and I want so much for my boys to eat more like me. Of course, they've had years of processed foods (which I have given them), so weaning them will take some time. D Is a shocking eater. Kaden is much better but not great. I don't know how it got that way. I remember Scott only eating chips and ice cream all those years ago. Back then as a 23 year old mother I knew nothing - just ass long as he was eating. Now I'm older and apparently know more. I'm more educated, more informed, more conscious about the needs of my children. Or am I? I don't know. Scott is a strapping, healthy, fit, positive, community participant. He plays sport, has a job, pays bills and has a long term steady relationship. Obviously, chips and ice-cream didn't hurt him. Maybe this food bandwagon is all a crock!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I am going to continue to deliver meals with unprocessed brightly coloured vegetables on their plate. I don't care that in order for them to get it down their throats, they must have everything drowned in gravy! Ship it in.</span><br />
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