What's life without love and a few dirty dishes?
If there is one thing that gives me a deep sinking feeling in my stomach more than trying to plan activities to keep the kids entertained for six weeks, it’s shopping for school shoes. It normally involves a lot of waiting, some tears, and parting with an extortionate amount of cash. Of course too late […] Read more…
Welcome to a new monthly series about the things I have bought or seen over the month that I love. Now some would say I shouldn’t be doing these kind of posts because it’s not exactly my niche. I used to write a monthly Five under £5 series, but it only had one reader (Hi […] Read more…
I’ve been here once before. Only this time it feels different. There’s a hint of familiarity. A sense of nostalgia maybe. But when I think back to the first time I stepped over this threshold holding your big brother’s hand, you were just a baby in my arms. And now look at you. The all […] Read more…
I try very hard to understand that we all have different parenting techniques. There isn’t a one size fits all approach, for either parents or the children they are parenting. I hate the mum wars and the debates about breast verses bottle, stay at home verses working, and so on. We are all doing the […] Read more…
The husband turned 40 in May and I was given a glimpse as to what 40 looks like. It involves lots of birthday cards about being old, and lots of people saying welcome to the club and guffawing. I’ve been accepted to a few clubs in my lifetime. My best friend and I started The […] Read more…
With Illustrations by Babyhood The best* advice on the internet. *maybe This guest series normally features words by other bloggers. Words to cut through the barrage of advice being thrown at you and make you laugh, or tell you it doesn’t matter how you are doing it, because in truth there is […] Read more…
Hey there new Mummy, Congratulations on the arrival of your precious bundle. How are you? Sore? In awe of the tiny human you have created? That never goes away. the awe, not the sore. Eight years in and it still takes my breath away that I created that walking, talking, flossing, person. I know that […] Read more…
I was shocked to discover the other day just how many of my friends have been birth shamed. To be honest I didn’t really know it was a thing. But snide little comments about epidurals, C-sections and inductions. Society pushes natural birth on us so much that women feel like they have somehow failed if […] Read more…
I discovered I was pregnant with my first born the day of my 30th birthday party. It’s fair to say my thirties have been a pretty life changing decade. And as I approach my forties I have been thinking about the life lessons I will be taking with me. Here is part two of the A-Z of […] Read more…
My youngest child had a speech delay. He wasn’t really saying anything at the time of his two year check, and his tantrums born from his inability to communicate were hardcore. They brought me to my knees. and often found me googling how to help a child with a speech delay. Now at 4 years […] Read more…
Way back when I was relatively new to the blogging world I wrote a guest post for my friend Talya at Motherhood: The Real Deal for her series ‘Being a Mother.’ I read it again the other day and realised as my kids have gotten older there are so many more ways to define motherhood. […] Read more…
A Guest Post by Mumma Scribbles The best* advice on the internet. *maybe I am on my second time of parenting now, and I have spent five years putting my gorgeous children to sleep. I have gone through very similar things with both of them, although with Oscar, those things seem […] Read more…
When you reach that stage of pregnancy where it’s obvious that you have a bun in the oven and haven’t been eating too many cakes, you suddenly become ‘approachable’ to strangers. People you don’t know, or those you occasionally nod to will suddenly want to talk to you and know everything about your unborn baby. […] Read more…
You hear the word natural a lot as soon as you become pregnant. And that word ‘natural’ hangs around for the next year or so. Did you conceive naturally? Was it a natural birth? Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world. You’ve taken to it like a natural. But when you really think about it having a […] Read more…
I discovered I was pregnant with my first born the day of my 30th birthday party. It’s fair to say my thirties have been a pretty life changing decade. And as I approach my forties I have been thinking about the life lessons I will be taking with me. Here is an A-Z of the life lessons […] Read more…
No one warned me how noisy kids are. It’s like a daily assault on the ear drums that can leave me with a pounding headache. Of course the house feels weird and not right without all the noise now, so I guess I’m getting used to it! This is part two of the A-Z of […] Read more…
A few months ago I got involved in the #aminumber5 campaign through Wear White Again, and I wrote a post about period problems to highlight the 1 in 5 women who suffer from very heavy periods. I was one of those women. I have suffered from incredibly heavy periods since my periods began when I […] Read more…
I was the girl who played with dolls and still has her favourite doll Amy. I was the girl who made my little brother pretend to be a baby when we played. I wanted to be a nurse, a hairdresser, a teacher and a lawyer, but above all else I wanted to be a Mum. […] Read more…
A Guest Post by Tales From Mamaville The best* advice on the internet. *maybe So we’ve all had birthdays and birthday parties. Our mums and dads did it every year we were kids, and their mums and dads before them. It does not take Einstein to figure out the perfect formula […] Read more…
Next weekend marks a ‘big’ birthday for the husband. It also means a night out without the kids. Gone are the days when I used to stress about leaving them over night. Nowadays I break open the Prosecco and enjoy the silence! The kids would rather be staying with the Grandparents and jumping all over […] Read more…