BIG laughs

The funner stuff. The dumber stuff. The stuff I stuff up.

The Housekeeping Revolution

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“Why are you asleep?” was the first thing my wife asked me when she arrived home. “You’re supposed to be watching the kids.”

The hardest thing about looking after the kids while your wife is out working is making sure you’re awake before she comes home.

I Am My Father’s Son

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I love nothing more than finding a reason to run down to the local hardware where I can check out the tape measures. These are the only ‘tools’ Tracey lets me play with these days. I have five.

My Son, My Nemesis

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Sometimes parenting is about being the bigger man, not just in height, weight and cup size, but in my words and actions as well. And sometimes I find this harder than others, although I usually get there.

This was one of those times.

A Tall Tale

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You know when you don’t really hear someone but then when they get your attention you know they’ve been saying something for a bit?

“DAD!”

This was that.

Good Mourning!

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This might be my last post. I don’t think, with a working blog title of ‘Big Family, Little Income’, it would be fair to operate under the false perception I’m battling to make ends meet when in actual fact I’m living in the lap of luxury…

Mum vs Dad

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“What’s my birthday?” Miss7 asked myself and her mother. Don’t worry, it’s not like she didn’t know. Tracey and I had somehow been roped into a head to head quiz where the kids asked the questions and I got to feel dumb.