My son is the crack up at our house… last night I told him off for going #2s in his undies, I told him that poo’s belongs in the toilet not in his undies and that he needs to help mummy, not make mummy’s job hard…he replied with “ok I'm sorry mummy’ and trotted off down the hall while I went in search of clean undies and Pj’s. I then found a very happy 3 year old in the toilet naked washing his undies in the toilet bowl with a big smile on his face saying “there you go mummy, poo’s in the toilet now and my undies can go in the laundry aye” was so funny but certainly made my stomach weak….what would my life be like without him? Id never like to experience that!

I would like to tell you a little bit about my grandmother. I have the utmost of love and respect for all my family and I’m sure I will write a lot about them in future articles, but for now I would like to focus on my grandmother because I feel that she had one of the largest impacts on my life, especially now that I have children of my own.

I was born when my mother was very young, and my biological father moved away shortly after I was born, so my mother and I spent my first few years living with my grandparents. Also my mother worked during the day so I was left in the care of my caring grandmother, so as you can imagine, I grew very close to my grandparents.

My grandmother, Norma Margaret McCoy, was one of the most caring and protective people I have ever met. She taught me the meaning of unconditional love, respect and most importantly faith. As a child, no matter what I did or said, I knew that she would always back me 100%, even when what I did was perhaps wrong. She never smacked me or yelled at me, and showered me with kindness any chance she got. I would guess any child expert would say it was perhaps the wrong way to raise a child, and as you can imagine I was quite a handful in my childhood years. I would say I would not have been the easiest kid to look after, but my grandmother never wavered. She showed nothing but love and respect..

There were quite a few TV programmes I loved watching when I was younger. Little House On The Prairie, The Greatest American Hero, The Waltons, Charlies Angels and I think one of the most popular programmes of my youth - Fame.

Everyone my age remembers that, and we all talk about how we used to dance and pretend we were Fame dancers. I used to go down to our shed, turn the music up and dance my little heart out, with the spins and leaping. Oh and the legwarmers, remember them.

Every time you hear the theme music for those old shows it brings back the memories. It was good times 'back in the day.'