I had two boys, delightful specimens of mankind, surprises each, entering the world with a scream and, “It’s a boy!” The third time I wanted no surprises. During my ...
We are painting the inside of our house. Remodelling they call it here but to me re-modelling means taking something apart and putting it back together again. Painting walls is called ...
Daughts is now at that legal age where she can do anything without parental consent. Just because she has attained the grand old number of twenty-one doesn’t mean that with it ...
Twenty-one years ago today the final member of our family arrived amid the peaches and cream complexion that comes with a planned C-section. She was a pretty flawless baby too! With my ...
My film maker son is really good at asking questions. Alone with him in a car, train or kitchen, as a toddler or teen, a steady slew of phrases requiring answers would slip from his ...
(Photo credit: HSLDA Facebook) It takes time for me to fully process events. Hence my silence on what happened last Friday. I gave up reading National news years ago when everything was ...
I heard a scrabbling behind me in my office. I ignored it. We live on a creek and the back forty is always spewing up critters from the undergrowth. The scrabbling became frantic. ...
My friend and I visited the Arboretum to see Dale Chihuly’s magnificent glass display one afternoon. On the strength of that excursion I bought tickets for the show for the rest ...
When they were young the children wanted to carve pumpkins. As a Brit I had not been brought up in the halloween culture so gracing the front step with a carved pumpkin or two was not ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.