We’re up in Sheffield this week visiting Alex’s family. It’s our second long train trip in a week as we’re just back from a week in Bournemouth at my parent’s house.
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How not to do bedtime
Read moreBedtime is the last event in the parenting Olympics, isn’t it? It’s the final hurdle, with the finishing line – sofa and wine – tantalisingly within touching distance. But you…
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Babies, beaches and big milestones
Read moreNursery’s out for the summer – aka it’s shut for a week – so we’re currently staying down at my parent’s house in Bournemouth on a mini-break. They live by the…
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Don’t leave me this way – on separation anxiety, again
Read moreSeparation anxiety has arrived in our house. Florence, who is just starting to explore the world around her, now wails like it’s ending if she can’t see me or isn’t…
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(Bed)room for two
Read moreSiblings sharing bedrooms…does it work? Is it a lovely and cosy vision of harmony, or a complete logistical nightmare? I ask because this is our future plan, but we’re staying my…
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Walk the baby walk with Hippychick
Read moreMoving on to baby walkers…how are we at the stage where we’re using one of those again already? In the past few weeks Florence seems to be accelerating at lightning…
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Late to the party
Read moreThis summer, about three hundred years after everyone else, I finally bought myself some Saltwater sandals (they’re the ones that look like toddler shoes that everyone’s been raving about for…