The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
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 […]
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 […]
If you thought the title of this post was propaganda or clickbait, you were wrong. One marriage proposal, three birthdays and two divorce’s are just some of the things that have happened in the last few months. To be a little more accurate… One marriage proposal, three birthdays, two parties, two divorce’s, two flights, ten train journeys, […]
You don’t get to choose your family, but it’s not always DNA that makes a family. Any man can father a child but it takes someone special to be a Daddy. Baby Bear… I want to tell you about Mike… Actually, you know him as Daddy. In the beginning, we called him “Daddy Mike” but now […]
A common discussion amongst twin mums, is about those people who pity you for having twins. Every twin mum I know, myself included, has had complete strangers walk up to them and say, “You have twins?… Rather you than me!”. Or perhaps “Oh I feel sorry for you for having twins”. One lady once said […]
I am a very gushy mum. I tell my children about a hundred times a day, that I love them, and I wonder if that’s often enough?! I tell them that they are perfect, beautiful, funny and clever, because to me, they are and because I want them to grow up confident and believing in […]
Sometimes in life, it is easy to get swept up in a world, where you listen to snap judgements that people make about you, without really getting to know you. Gossip, rumours, “banter” and nasty things people say, can start to get under your skin after a while and you start to believe them. In […]
I was going to blog another poem about spring, for this weeks Wednesday Words, but then I heard a song on the radio which really moved me. Not only did it move me, but it's highly topical at the moment. Gay Marriage was made legal in the UK in the early hours of Saturday morning […]
I told you all about the lump I found on my neck, which turned out to be suspected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, aka Cancer. I went into hospital and had a hemithyroidectomy, where they removed half of my thyroid under a general anaesthetic. I had internal bleeding and I ended up having two general anaesthetics in […]
The blogging world has fallen shocked and distraught, as a fellow blogger and twin mummy, tragically lost her beautiful baby girl to cot death on 2nd Feb 2013. Jennie writes on her blog Edspire about her grief for Matilda Mae, and hundreds of us spend our evenings sobbing through her posts and tweets. It’s strange, […]