Life, Love and Dirty Dishes delivers award winning funny tales from the parenting front line delivered with humour and heart. We're all in this together.
My son’s Primary school is an old Victorian building, very similar to the primary school I went to. My eldest came home the other day with a very detailed story about the toilets and how they were haunted. It made me smile because the toilets at my old school were haunted too! But whilst some […] Read more…
As I was having the daily argument with Big about putting his coat on this morning, it dawned on me the different stages we go through of wearing a coat during our lifetime. Coats when you are a baby Let’s face it coats are way too big and puffy for babies. They just look like […] Read more…
The husband and I started going out just before my fifteenth birthday. But although he is the love of my life there have been others. The boys I loved before… First Love I was eleven when I first fell in love. He was blonde, Australian, and went by the name of Jason Donovan. His pictures […] Read more…
Life before mobile phones seems like a long time ago now. My kids will never know of a life before mobile phones. They will never even know of a time before smart phones. I got my first mobile phone when I was 18 and off to University. Three Years later with my first pay check […] Read more…
I can’t help but think that when I was growing up parents had a slighter easier job than parents do now. It sometimes feels like our parents had more freedom to make their own parenting choices than we do. Eighties parents versus today’s parents: Who had it easier? Car Seats Car safety has […] Read more…
I am 37 years old. Thirty-seven years six months and eleven days to be precise. Firmly in my thirties. My eldest child is about to enter year two at school and the little one is nearly past the nappies stage. The baby days have come to an end. This leaves me feeling older and a million […] Read more…
It’s time to take a walk down memory lane. A time where Saturday mornings were all about Muppet Babies and Going Live. Kids TV was presented from a broom cupboard and Stock Aitkin and Waterman ruled the charts. You brought Smash Hits magazine for the song lyrics, and chances are you had a stripey vinyl […] Read more…
To me flowers are a lot like Marmite. You either love them or hate them. That’s not to say I don’t like flowers themselves, but don’t buy me flowers. Now before you think I’m ungrateful, here’s why… (Although I do love tulips…) 1 It’s a matter of taste Take shoes for example. […] Read more…
Having a January birthday sucks. OK in the great scheme of things there are worse problems to have, but when it comes to birthdays? The ideal time to have one is NOT January, and here’s why… 1 The Christmas Hangover In December nobody moans to much about cold weather and dark nights. It’s […] Read more…
Fashion is starting to make me feel old. I am seeing things become fashionable again that I not only remember from the first time, but I spent my entire part time job pay packet on. There are many things I have worn that my small people will one day either laugh at, or cringe at […] Read more…
My husband is amazing. I got myself a good one. He makes me laugh, he does the washing up, and he doesn’t moan about my handbag collection. He does anything I ask of him and always makes time for me. But my husband struggles when it comes to romance. He often needs a nudge shove […] Read more…
So first the given, I love my kids, my life is better with them, I wouldn’t change it for the world and blah blah blah. All very true. BUT… There are a few things from my life before children that I miss because they were, well, easier. 1 Going to the bathroom alone […] Read more…
Did you spend Saturday night reminiscing about how the clocks going back used to mean an extra hour of partying in your finest, or a delicious extra hour under the duvet? All the while knowing that those days are gone and your extra hour will be spent negotiating with your children to go back to […] Read more…