It has been a testing time at The Mother-in-Law’s House. My funny, bright and beautiful daughter had her fourth birthday; a time that inspires a mother with bountiful joy and endless happy, watery memories of her child’s wonderful beginnings on this earth. And yet whilst I was icing her NOT-PINK cake, and wrapping her NOT-PINK […]
The Mother-in-Law’s House was transformed into Grand Central Station this week, with the arrival and now imminent departure of Sally and her family. If the internet were made of paper, you would see the tear drop stains on this page. I first met Sally a year ago at shul in Bristol, where she and her […]
When you become a parent, one of the things that people (even STRANGERS) like to tell you is that you’ll get sick all the time. Because small children like to lick things. They lick floors, they lick other children, they snog animals and French kiss railings in public places, and mostly gum objects that have […]
What with all that marmalade drama last week, succeeded by a blissful batch of Blood Orange Curd, I used the remaining limes from my giant box of citrus fruit to magic up some seriously good chocolate truffles. My truffles – or ‘ruffles’ as they are known by the children – are easy-on-the-eye balls of delight […]
Last week was a tumultuous time in The Mother-in-Law’s House. On Wednesday, The Husband and I had a flaming barney just before he left for work, which crescendoed in my almost throwing his lunch at him in the hallway. Luckily for The Husband – and the falafel within his lunch bag – the Jewish wife […]
