Tales of the Worm King

Goodness - I think this is one of the longest breaks I've had from blogging! I've been far to busy being busy. Or lazy. Maybe that too. Well to be honest, I've had study to get through and avoiding university text readings isn't going to do itself. But my latest subject has wrapped up and I've had a week off, and I found myself wondering what the hell to write about. This morning I realised that we need to have a discussion about the resident 4 year old. To put it into perspective - with my boys, the Terrible Twos was a a very misleading term. Now, I don't want to detract from the fact that most of them are actually really terrible. Absolutely awful, to be honest. But they were also insanely cute. What was misleading was that the term seems to indicate that it begins and ends in the second year of life. No one felt the need to warn me that the Terrible Twos are a gateway to The Three Year Old, a far more wily and chaotic being. Yet, by the time the...

This will my my 5th attempt at blogging. The previous four were pretty unimpressive, even by my standards. The first was pure waffling (probably just like a standard conversation with me anyway), the second was a rant about Seth's APD. It was a bit too angry and I ran out of steam eventually, a bit like my year 12 major artwork. The third was half-arsed and the fourth was too lovey-dovey. Anyone who knows me, knows that kind of shit doesn't go down too well with me. So... FIFTH TIME LUCKY I say! I thought I'd start off with the latest milestone achieved in our household: Last night Seth's first baby tooth was EXTREMELY wobbly. Of the 'hanging-by-a few-threads' kind of wobbly. It required intervention and Seth knew it. Reminding myself of the good ol' days where my own Dad would assure me that he would just 'see' how wobbly the wobbly tooth was, before getting a good grip and yanking it out (can't believe I fell for that trick so many times)....