The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
Looking for childcare was a complex enough subject before Covid-19 but now, amidst social distancing and a gradually easing lockdown, childcare options are vastly complicated. There are however, tools available to make it easier. My son used to go to a nursery and switched almost a year ago to a pre-school, for a number of […]
Hockey Heroes is a new initiative started by Hockey England, which aims to get more young children into hockey. Aimed at children aged 5-8 years, Hockey Heroes is a 6 week programme which teaches children fundamental hockey skills. These hockey skills are broken down into hockey “super powers”, with a new super power being taught […]
I’ve always had a laid back approach to potty training my children, but even I wouldn’t plan toddler toilet training whilst on holiday… … Sometimes, however, despite our best intentions, our tiny tearaways have their own ideas! Yes… Baby Bear decided that right at the start of our camping trip, last summer, was the perfect […]
There are so many important lessons your children need to learn. So, it is not really surprising that some of them get pushed down the list. Often, one of them is teaching your children about money, in particular, how to save and prepare for their long-term future. So, today, I thought I would share with […]
So I’m a few weeks late posting this, due a technical glitch but, I wrote this on his birthday! My beautiful baby Bear, I can’t believe you are THREE already! How can you be three years old so soon? It’s your 3rd birthday but it feels like such a short time ago that I woke […]
How to Keep Energy Levels Up as a New Mum There is nothing in the world quite like becoming a mum for the first time. It is an incredibly exciting time yet also one which is filled with fear and stress so it is certainly an emotional time. This can take its toll and you […]
Baby sleep tips are one of those things that you Google when you are expecting your first child and often never revisit. Baby Sleep is one of the most important things for parents to educate themselves on, for two main reasons: Your baby’s safety. This is your number one priority and taking on board some […]
Pets have been something that my husband and I have discussed a lot. We currently have a cat. A white cat called Nala, with heterochromia – meaning she has one blue eye and one green eye. She’s quite stunning. We’ve both had dogs before and although we both love dogs (in someone else’s home), neither […]
As you can probably guess, the title of this post sums up a somewhat chaotic weekend! In fact, May was a chaotic month from start to finish. The good kind of chaotic though, apart from the broken bones, but I’ll come onto that in a minute! Most of May was the fun kind of busy, […]
I was recently asked to do an experiment, to find out the best mothers day spa treatments for combatting mum stress. In order to do such an experiment, I needed a way to measure “mum stress”… And guess what… there’s an app for that! What is Mum Stress? I’m not talking about the stress of […]