I watch my wife with our four year old twins and so often sit there in awe of her, thinking to myself that she is incredible. My wife’s love for her twin daughters is unconditional. It has no boundaries. She has a patience that I only wish I had. My wife sits and plays all…
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The Brilliant Dad Feature is one year old!
Read moreJust over a year ago I was mulling over an idea to involve dads on my blog and talk about their experiences as dads. I was sitting in my twin girls room whilst they went to sleep one night and started to think about what questions I could ask dads. I didn’t want too many…
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R and M’s fourth birthday party
Read moreThe girls birthday was yesterday, but they had their party on Saturday with approximately 25 of their friends attending who were mostly from their nursery class. We must be mad! We hired our local church hall and hired a bouncy castle and soft play from a local company. We arrived at the hall at 1pm…
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My Twin Girls are four years old today
Read moreIt’s a leap year this year and this has made me think how quickly the last four years has gone because it was a leap year when the girls were born. Thankfully they were born on the 28th. Although the money I could of saved on birthdays had it been the 29th! The last four…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreToday is my beautiful twin daughters R and M’s fourth birthday. It doesn’t seem like yesterday they were born. Yesterday they had a birthday party with their friends from nursery (post coming soon). So Happy Birthday R and M love u lots and lots xxxxx
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Who buys the most Mummy or Daddy
Read moreThe other day my wife was talking to the girls about suitcases for our summer holiday and they were talking about Trunki cases. R said, “Mummy you buy too much for us!” So my wife said well do want them? R replied with of course we want them! My wife then filmed them on whether…
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R and M nursery progress
Read moreLast week was half term and the girls will soon be moving into their last term in nursery before going to big school. OMG! They are growing up to quickly! Nooooo! Looking back over the last six months it was interesting to me to see how dramatically the girls have changed and how they have…
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Binky Linky
Read more****NO BUSINESSES**** Please link up a blog post, not your home page Please only link up one post – additional links will be deleted This linky is your chance to link up your favourite post of the week. It’s a great way to find new blogs to read and to raise your blogs profile. I’m…
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Brilliant dad feature week 51
Read moreToday’s brilliant dad feature is Rodney from the USA… I am a recovered workaholic. I have been working smart instead of hard for two years now and it feels great. I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I am a husband to my beautiful wife Krystal. I am a father to my five year old Randall,…
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Why is it people think dads are incapable
Read moreRecently I’ve found it more and more common to find people looking at me strangely, at least this is probably the best word to describe it when I’m on my own with my four year old twins. Ok I’m an older dad to four year old twins. But surely it could never be that, that’s…
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We have moved in to our new home
Read moreA few days ago we moved to our new home. I use the word home loosely. Why? Well we rent where we live and it’s difficult to always call it home when in this country there is security of tenure and most likely never will be. For all of that it’s important to make it…
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My Wife's obsession with Baking, knitting and sewing
Read moreAs our twin girls get older my wife has become obsessed with a number of pastimes and hobbies which I find fascinating ,and probably a bit boring to watch, but the results are always fantastic It started a while ago, well approximately two years ago when she decided to make her own Christmas cake. That…
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My Sunday photo
Read moreMy Sunday Photo We moved home on Wednesday this week. Here is a picture of R and M outside our new home on Thursday morning getting ready to go on a play date with their Mummy and give me a few hours to unpack the boxes and sort out the rooms in peace.
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Our latest theatre trip to see The Cat in the Hat
Read moreYesterday we went to the theatre to see Dr Suess’s The Cat in the Hat. R and M have been very lucky before they have even turned four years of age because they have been to the theatre so many times and they’ve seen shows including Room on the Broom,What the Ladybird Heard, Beauty and…
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7 Quick Fixes to make your home even lovelier
Read moreAs you might already know, this has been a hectic week for us having moved house, and I’ve already blogged on our cunning plans to clear up our garden. However, even though we have only been in the new place for a couple of days, I’ve already got my sights set on some DIY work for the weekend.…
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Buying or renting a home
Read moreI was once a homeowner until I got divorced and was fleeced for everything by my ex-wife. Rightly or wrongly I made some decisions about what I thought was the right moral thing to do. From my first marriage I had three children. They were born and bred in that house and they still live…
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Binky Linky
Read more****NO BUSINESSES**** Please link up a blog post, not your home page Please only link up one post – additional links will be deleted This linky is your chance to link up your favourite post of the week. It’s a great way to find new blogs to read and to raise your blogs profile. I’m…
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Brilliant dad feature week 50
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is an anonymous dad from the uk. He is a father of two stillborn twin boys and three rainbow children under 4 years old. He started blogging as a way to process long delayed feelings of grief and to encourage others (particularly fathers) to share their experience, tackle the…
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The Quickest and Safest Way to Clear your Garden
Read moreFor those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you’ll know that today is the day we’re moving house. It’s been a stressful few weeks in the lead up to the move, but there are some things you can do quickly to help reduce the stress and make the move quicker. My wife…
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My children and me
Read moreI have five children and I suppose I wonder what they really think of me as a dad. It’s an age old question, but I wonder if they’re proud of me, embarrassed by me or not. Actually all of them I’m sure at some point or another. have been! Do they see me as their…
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#CheckYourChaps For Cancer
Read moreFor their awareness month, male cancer charity Orchid wants all men to check themselves for the signs of testicular cancer as part of their #CheckYourChaps campaign. The charity have just completed surveying the British public, revealing that on average only 32% of men are regularly checking themselves. Young men are even less likely to check…
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