BIG family life

The blog posts which probably mean more to us than you. Our day to day stuff which, one day, our kids will look back on and laugh at. Or use in court. Or talk about with their psychiatrists.

Houston, We Have A Problem Too

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A little confusion over which hemisphere we live in saw me getting the kids all excited about seeing a shooting star spectacle from the driveway. Turns out the Perseids is as hard to see from Queensland as the Southern Cross is from Alaska.

Smackdown

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“Your daughter has something to tell you,” Tracey said to me this evening as I sat down in front of my laptop to check…

Baby Bath

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Dinner was done and the dishes were piled up all around the kitchen. Tracey’s sister and her lovely little family were over for a…

Daddy Poppins

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The alarm went off at 6.15am. Tracey was away. It was all up to me . “Here we go!” I thought to myself, mentally rubbing my hands together. And went straight back to sleep.

She Nose

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How come kids can’t hear me call their name from across the room but they can hear a chip packet opening at the other end of the house?

Face Book

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My brother is in trouble. Again. You know how when you used to go away on school camps or sporting camps you’d play pranks…

Burn Notice

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“You might want to have a chat with your daughter about death,” the weary-eyed daycare supervisor told a friend of mine. We’ve had lots…

The Hide Of Some People

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“I’m home!” I announced when I opened the balcony door and walked in this afternoon. Initially distracted by my wife’s awesome snogging, moments later I noticed Master7 under the dining table at the other end of the kitchen.

Parched

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Dry July has been a resounding success here in the Devereaux household. None of us – not a single one – has touched a…