Spending quality time with the family as we de-louse ourselves and our clothes/bedding, thanks to a kind student at my oldest child’s school.

#JoysOfParenting

“Is everyone paying attention to me,” I ask.

Wait a second.

“No one is paying attention to me,” I say to myself 6 inches from my children.

#joysofparenting #ghostdad

The #JoysOfParenting. I've got a five year old who's decided she's going to choose this exact moment to defy my instructions, refusing to get dressed for bed etc etc.

Meanwhile my toddler is in his cot and is absolutely screaming the house down.

And I'm here solo, after a full day of work. Yay for my piss-poor life choices I guess?

My kid managed to connect two sleep cycles so of course I have to go check and make sure they're still alive. :D
#JoysOfParenting
And I've spent two hours this evening on the phone with Second Child away at uni who is in the middle of a severe healthy anxiety crisis and not doing at all well. Whilst simultaneously constructing a sofa.
#FridayEveningMood #JoysOfParenting
12 year old in a strop and refusing to go to bed. I've given up and left them to it, I'm too tired for this.
Doubtless means I'll get up in the morning to all the lights on downstairs
#JoysOfParenting #tired
I get a little misty-eyed thinking of the day my sons will be all grown up. Then I get an email reminding me I have to wake up before dawn on a Saturday to drive them to one of their various activities and can’t wait until they have their drivers license. #JoysOfParenting #parenting

Husband & Small Boy are emptying the dishwasher and bickering
H: No, that doesn’t go in there, it goes in that drawer
SB: But it fits
H: And those don’t go in that cupboard either
SB: But they fit
H: Your head fits in the toilet but I don’t try and put it in there, do I?

#FatherAndSon #JoysOfParenting

It's a day that ends in Y, so naturally one of my two kids is sick.

#JoysOfParenting