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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 ...

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 t...

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 ha...

Hi! I haven’t posted in a while, I know. Being back at work hasn’t left me with much time for anything, but I haven’t gone, things are ju...

A few weeks ago it was ‘real nappy week’ meaning that all over my Facebook and Instagram cloth nappy companies are having small, 10, 20 o...

My Mum messaged me the other day, it said ‘enjoy today.’ Weird? No, it was my last day of Maternity leave, that’s what she meant. Which i...

In the last 24 hours, no, less then that, 19 hours, we have had 4 leeky nappies. Leeky in a brown sort of a way. From both children. 3 di...

We are home from holiday, and although we arrived back to a bank holiday heatwave, boy do we know we are home! After a long trip back and...

So here we are, on holiday. We have brought reinforcements in the form of a couple of grandparents, but the story so far is; it is relent...

Yesterday morning I put on makeup. I wish I hadn’t bothered. We were up in good time but I decided I wanted to look less like I hadn’t sl...

Yup, you read that right, after all the whingeing were finally in our new house and, while it was epic getting here, all of that is in th...

It is so close now. So close. I have taken all the child-proofing off the kitchen cabinet doors today, it is so close... ...I have such m...

How I’d love to reminisce,  How beautiful it is, To have you fall asleep in my arms. To consolidate your day, To process your new synapti...

Today is a funny day. We woke up to snow. The Boy & I had had a rough night. I couldn’t sleep and he was up to feed every hour or so. We ...

Yesterday, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when I came across 2 articles on parenting. On my newsfeed they were 2 posts apart, p...

Its an abrupt title, I know, but one of my pet peeves is that no one talks about it. I want to talk about it, and I want to make it clear...

I have been quiet here at Plus The Dog just lately, and it’s because we have been away! Yes, we braved the holiday camp and went to Centr...

This Girl will drive me crazy. Honestly, I love her to bits, she is bright and funny and good-natured, but goodness she can be challangin...

By 9.30am today I had both children dressed, fed, cleaned up and ready for the day. For once we weren’t going anywhere, but we were ready...

Taking a step back from our current domestic situation with us steering our course through life’s choppy waters with a 6 year old dog, a ...