The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
When you are living a busy family life, juggling parenting, work, blogging, housework, sports, days out and everything else that comes along, it’s sometimes hard to find husband and wife time. Take your minds out of the gutter… I’m not talking about what you do when the children are in bed! I mean finding the […]
Anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE the sunshine. I am happiest when I’m warm and the sun is shining. Seasonal Affective Disorder crawls off to a corner to die and out come the legs, sun lotion and smiles. The problem is, summer is never quite the same when you’re a grown-up with responsibilities. For […]
I recently decided to take up running again. I used to run before I got pregnant with Baby Bear. It started when I ran Race for Life and then I carried on from there until I was running 8 miles a few times a week. I also used a few different online fitness trainers on […]
I give you my heart, my beautiful, funny, clever, amazing children. There are many moments in motherhood, that overwhelm me with such an abundance of love for my children, that I just want to be able to express it. I can’t of course. Nobody can write that much love. However, during one of those moments […]
I only managed to breastfeed my oldest daughter for 6 weeks, due to having very little knowledge of breastfeeding or support. When Bunny had a growth spurt and I didn’t have enough milk, I simply gave up. With my twins, I did my research and persevered with tandem breastfeeding, exclusively for three months and mix-fed […]
We live in a world, where at the moment, everyone seems so keen to tear each other down. You only have to click on a video of a toddler doing something cute on Facebook and there follows a ton of comments criticising the parents of that toddler, for some reason or other. Everybody parents differently […]
Since having Baby Bear, I’ve wanted to shift the baby weight I gained during pregnancy. I gained a stone and I really wasn’t keen on that extra stone. None of my pre-baby clothes fit and I just didn’t feel like me. My mum came to visit me and pointed out how much weight I’d gained. I […]
When I blogged that we were looking for wedding venues… I may have been fibbing a little bit. We actually planned our wedding just after we got engaged and kept it a secret. Once we had chosen our wedding venue and started planning the details, we asked ourselves… why wait? Why wait months or years […]
Doctors, midwives and health visitors have an obsession with telling breastfeeding mothers that “if it hurts, then your baby isn’t latched on correctly”. For first time breastfeeders, this is quite often true. This is sometimes even true for mothers who have done it before, but sometimes, there are medical reasons for why breastfeeding hurts. It […]
No matter how well you have motherhood nailed, we all have THOSE DAYS when we come unstuck and feel like an absolute failure!