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Welcome to the Candis Blog feature. Meet Melanie and her family and keep up to date with her musings of family life as mum of seven.
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With so much going on for all of us I thought it would be a good idea to do an update on who's doing what and when... if nothing else it will help me get my head straight and hopefully raise a laugh or sympathetic groan if you're going through the same things as our family... Pete's work is still very much undecided and he is up all hours working on tenders at home in an effort to ... Read more
Date Posted: 29/06/2010
Fun Loving Crabb
Hello again, We have finally arrived at the last Crabb on the list and I know it is a cliche but in this case, oh so true, he may be last but is most definitely not least! Harrison has just turned 6 and quite frankly how he has made it this far unscathed is nothing short of a miracle!!! I have heard on more than one occasion a couple of the children plotting his downfall! He is very affectionate... Read more
Date Posted: 24/07/2009
Fairyland Crabb
Hello again, Second to last in the Crabb family is Mackenna, who is 8 years old and, like I've said earlier is at that short lived but blissful none the less state of believing that life is a fairy tale with her being a princess!! All she is lacking is the horse, which she asks for every birthday and every Christmas! But, like I said she is 8 and so will soon be coming out of this lovely, de... Read more
Date Posted: 22/07/2009
Mexican Crabb
Hi again, Next up is Callum, my 10 year old brainiac!! He's extremely creative and a deep thinker. He absorbs information like a sponge! We have to shut him up sometimes as he seems to enjoy winding his younger siblings up with gross facts from a variety of shows, his favourite one being Air Crash Investigation! He's fairly studious, science being his favourite, and along with playing th... Read more
Date Posted: 22/07/2009
Crosspatch Crabb
Hi everyone again, And so we have arrived at the 'delightful' Colby......... In my first introduction of Colby, I referred to her as being hormonal 21 days out of 28. Well, that is no longer the case and it seems she is hormonal for 29 days out of 28. Highly strung and volatile, it is hard to find a time when she's not 'losing it' with someone or something. Ordinarily, at lea... Read more
Date Posted: 21/07/2009
Repentant Crabb
Hi everyone, Here we are again with the next family character, Madison. She is 18 in October and when I entered this competition back in April I would have found it extremely difficult to write anything positive about her. I spent many a night laying in bed feeling guilty that I knew I loved her but I just didn't like her at all. As parents you think that you're not supposed to feel like... Read more
Date Posted: 20/07/2009
Stateside Crabb
Hi again everyone, As promised I am bringing you the next Crabb in line to be exposed!! Well, next would be Kyle, my 20 year old son who lives in Florida with his father, my ex husband. As I have explained before, Kyle has remained in America since our moving back home in 2005. He stayed to finish off his schooling there rather than try and catch up over here. Also, at that time his two younger ... Read more
Date Posted: 20/07/2009
Veggie Crabb
Hi everyone, Next up on the list is Kelvin, my 21 year old vegetarian loving ex punk! Kelvin works as an IT administrator about 5 miles away and is a whizz with computers but loves his guitars more!!! Kelvin resides up in the converted attic with his kitten, Bandit! He has been in a serious relationship with his girlfriend Laura aka Cooper for well over a year and they have been contemplating mo... Read more
Date Posted: 19/07/2009
Crabby
Hi everyone, I thought I would start off by writing a bit about everyone each day so that when I am ranting on you will understand what I am dealing with!! Where better to start than with my long suffering husband, Pete. I say this tongue in cheek as he is quite capable of giving as good as he gets when the need arises, especially with me!! For the most part he manages to whistle his way throu... Read more
Date Posted: 18/07/2009
My First Blog - Melanie Crabb
Hello everybody I am Melanie the new Candis family blogger! I am really looking forward to sharing the antics of my hectic family and hope a lot of you will be able to relate to all the ups and downs that goes on with trying to run a family. Our family has so many diverse characters that our life is never dull! Of course, because of this there is an awful lot of friction and some very tense situ... Read more
Date Posted: 16/07/2009
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