Diary of a one year old – 19 months
Right. Emmm, help? Actually we’re grand. We’re just a little bit trapped. We can’t go many places. Or, anywhere, in fact. You know when the baby is tiny and you’re out and about and you’re […]
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Safe driving and the lack of old mattress viewing
What’s your favourite thing about driving? For me, it used to be about jumping in, zooming off and having the freedom to go wherever and whenever I liked. I blogged before about my long history […]
Diary of a one year old – 18 months
18 months. It’s quite an iconic age, isn’t it? And like an 18th birthday, we seemed to have crossed over to some sort of new life. A sense of growing up. A right to vote. […]
When the walls are closing in – coping with clutter
Right now I’m sitting in front of Paw Patrol in a room that used to resemble my sitting room. There are piles of toys in the corner and across the floor, the contents of my […]
Favourite Christmas memories. What are yours?
I find myself getting very nostalgic around this time of year. I have thirty years of memories built up. (I’m knocking off the first two years because try as I might, there are just no […]
Diary of a one-year-old: 16 months
I didn’t think it was possible but as time goes on I feel like I love her even more. The feelings I have for her are incredible. They’re scary. They scare me. I’m like a […]
Diary of a one year old – 15 months
In two days time the baby will be 15 months old. Only we can’t call her a baby anymore. I think the correct term is ‘person’. She is a mini human being, with a personality […]
8 photos of happiness – what would yours be?
I discovered the 8 photos of happiness blog post on YouBabyMeMummy. I was really inspired by the simplicity of it and the sweetness of it. I’m not really over sentimental and I’m a bit cynical […]
Ten life lessons we can all learn from ‘In the Night Garden’
I’ve never done LSD. But I’ve seen movies. I’ve had reports. I’ve used a kaleidoscope. I can imagine. It was (like a lot of things) himself’s fault that we discovered CBeebies In the Night Garden. […]
Ten reasons why my children will be country bumpkins
Since I’ve grown up (hmmm) and become an adult, I’ve come to realise just how lucky we were as kids and what a lovely place we grew up in. We didn’t realise it at the […]
‘Me time’ versus ‘Mammy time’. The guilt factor.
I’d heard of it before. Bandied around like all those things that come with motherhood. Stretch marks. Night feeds. Tiredness. Mother’s guilt. Guilt? I thought. What have I to be guilty about? I’ve just given […]
Happy Birthday August: a year in photos
August Lily was born on a Friday. Today is Friday and even though it’s the 21st of August, and she was born on the 22nd, I can’t but help of think back to that day, […]
Five baby sleep positions: none of them good for Mum and Dad
rel=”nofollow”Nurofen contacted me recently to review their products. They couldn’t send me Nurofen for Children, as there’s a law against that (or at least an ethics issue – the same way you can’t give out […]
Nobody said it was going to be easy
Well we made it through. Just about. Some nerves have expired, I’m sure of it. Those nerves are definitely gone. I already have grey hair so can’t say I’ve got a few more, but I […]