Where seldom is heard an encouraging word....

...an encouraging word goes a long way. For the record, no-one ever told me that parenting would be easy. Quite the opposite, in fact. I wake up every morning with the best of intentions, and things seem to go pear-shaped before 8AM anyway.

But, there were some encouraging words yesterday - so, let's try it again.

For breakfast we'll have pancakes and syrup and doughnuts and tea.

And the skies are not cloudy all day....