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So you’re well through the baby phase, and you firmly have a toddler in your hands. Those cheeks are still chubby but baby-face looks more and more like a li...

...since I last posted. Honestly, I have missed writing, but logistically , finding time to write has been the problem. Similarly, I started reading a book w...

A few weeks ago I wrote about how my friends adoption journey was very similar to my own story of motherhood. I asked her to also write, not about adoption s...

One if my closest friends is currently going through the process of adopting a child. It’s a really important thing that she is doing, and a huge decision to...

I recently read an article written by a mum who’s child is (or probably ‘was’ by now) a thumb sucker. The writer talked about how perfect strangers feel it i...

With two small children under 4 years of age, we are used to a certain dose of chaos. In fact, it is fast becoming  what defines us. Normally, our method of ...

I try to stear away from writing about my relationship with my husband publicly. There are a few reasons for this, but perspective is a large part of it. In ...

How many times have you heard this word to describe some fabulous and possibly iconic female who we are all encouraged to aspire to? I have heard many people...

New year’s eve for us has looked certain way for us for a few years now. Gone are the big nights out and extortionate taxi fares home. Gone even, for the tim...

It’s over. The whole lot of it, Christmas, new year, visits and visitors, meals out and meals in, presents and Christmas TV and unhealthy food. Well, I mean,...

The Husband has a method to deal with The Girl, and increasingly, The Boy, when they start the whingeing...he turns them upside-down in the air and says he’s...

I have worked with children in one form or another for most of my life. I know what a meltdown looks like. In several forms. From uncontrollable sobbing due ...

Daddy PlusTheDog Post Some of these posts are serious, some have a significant message… and it seems that some are a chance to debunk the 100% non-stop fun c...

For a while I have been conscious of my weight. Particularly my mummy tummy, which has a mind and a life of its own, it is unsightly in shape and looks huge ...

Today we are having a day at home. Both children are poorly, and the idea was to give them chance to recover a bit before preschool at the end of the week, a...

Toddlers are odd creatures. I’ve heard it said that babies are born knowing everything there is to know, they just lose it over time. If this is true then to...

I’ve written about Bing before. Or at least in the style of him. Today it was Lola and Charlie that got me thinking. Lola was upset because it was Autumn and...

Parkrun day. I have long professed that I am not a runner. I don’t run. I don’t  enjoy running, I’m not good at it and it often gives me a headache. I have n...

It’s perfectly ok to live in a cesspit when you have a newborn baby. In fact, people expect it. They even offer to help. When you add a toddler into the mix ...

It’s 4.30 in the morning. I am downstairs with a wide-awake 13-month-old waiting for him to get tired again. My Fitbit tells me I have had 2 hours & 38 mins ...