So the cake is eaten, all the presents are open and there are cards decorating every inch of our house; I’m officially the mum of a two-year-old. It’s only a little leap from one to two, but all of a sudden it seems like a big difference. My toddler seems to be growing about a year…
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Get back into shape post-pregnancy; top fitness tips
Just had a baby? Are you a new mum looking to get back into shape, on the hunt for some post-pregnancy fitness tips? Read on… Have you just had a baby? Congratulations! Have another piece of cake, and sleep when the baby sleeps (Seriously! You won’t regret it). But if you’re a few weeks…
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Failing at January
I think I might already be failing at January. While I’m sure I should feel energised and revitalised and full of joy about the start of the new year and so on, I just feel well, tired. All I fancy right now is a nap, or maybe burrowing into bed and hibernating.
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Win: your Christmas photos made into a photo book
How was everyone’s Christmas? Ours didn’t have the most promising of starts, involving a broken boiler, the storm cancelling almost all of the Christmas Eve trains to Bournemouth, and it looking for a while like we might be celebrating at Waterloo Station. But as soon as we got there it was really, really lovely. If,…
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How to stay warm in the park
Has motherhood changed the way you dress? I think becoming a mum has made me a lot more casual, but then it’s casual along the lines of how I dressed before; casual in a non-client-day-in-the-office sense.
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Where do all the odd socks go? The unexplained mysteries of motherhood
Before I became a mum, I had many questions. Who will my daughter look like? Will I be pregnant forever? And labour’s not really going to hurt that much, is it? Our very first NCT class was entirely devoted to discussing all the questions that we had (top one from the mums – what do…