We were back to our usual Saturday morning routine this week, meaning we were up and out early for swimming and rugby. It was super cold so there was no park trip afterwards, and we needed to get home anyway because my Sister and Nephew were due round – and as always, we had things […]
Up until now, my “I wish someone had told me” posts have all been surrounding childbirth, babies, or parenting. But the other day I was thinking about ageing, and I was thinking about the bits on me that have changed that I wish I had known might happen. Because we all age in different ways, […]
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We question ourselves with so many things when it comes to parenting. Did my baby drink enough, eat enough, sleep enough? Is it a cough or is it something worse? Have I failed at weaning or is he just not interested? So many questions that I have pondered over the years. My biggest one that […]
As you may know, we were on holiday last week and there were several school aged children there, including our Zach. It was obviously term time, and the two schools involved dealt with it very differently. My Brother in law and Sister in law put in a holiday request for their kids and had it […]
As a busy mum, it can be incredibly difficult to juggle everything that needs to be juggled. Whether you have one child or four children, whether they are at school and at home, or at home all of the time; tending to their needs and keeping the house in order can be a daily battle. […]
Exercise. It’s a pretty important thing really. Whether we like it or not, there is no doubt that exercise is good for our bodies, good for our health and good for our minds. But finding ways to fit exercise into busy Mum life can be incredibly hard. Up until last week, I was relying on […]
Some have gone back already, some are back today, and well, if you are like us – your school threw an extra inset day on and they are returning tomorrow! The Summer holidays are (almost) gone, the new term is starting, the new starter and new year group photos have been taken, and the school […]
I was tagged in the #parentingalphabetchallenge by Me, Them and the Others. The idea is to write an A-Z of your life as a parent and then tag some other bloggers to do the same. So here are my thoughts on life as a parent, in alphabetical order. A is for Adventure With two little […]
I think it’s safe to say that we are all now fully aware of the impact that we are having on the environment and the fact that we all need to make changes at home for the future of our planet, and the future of our children. I have become far more conscious recently of […]
This post contains affiliate links which are denoted with a *. This simply means that if you go on to order, I will earn a few pennies, with no extra cost to you. As soon as our children start school, there is one main thing that we have to help them with on a daily […]
So it happened. On Monday at 9.30am, Oscar started pre-school. A moment I had been waiting for – not because I don’t want him around – of course I do – but because he just needs more than what I can give him on a daily basis. He needs more interaction with other children without […]
The whole reason that I started blogging in the first place, was because I was so frustrated being a working mum. I felt like I needed somewhere to have a bit of a rant. To moan about how much I hated the time I spent away from my child (I only had the one at […]
OK so I may have written posts with facts about me previously – but unless you are randomly scrolling through the many pages of my blog, you probably won’t even find them! So, I thought with it being the Summer holidays, me being SUPER busy and struggling to even sit down and write anything, and […]
