OK, it’s finally happened. I have descended into a parody version of motherhood after adverts made me cry, twice, in a minute.
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Home, and away
Read moreWe are home from our holiday, having had an amazing time and a insane amount of fun. Bizarrely, we seemed to take a toddler and a small baby and returned with one water-loving small adult and one young child with lots of hair. Why do holidays make your children grow so much?
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Things I don’t miss about life before children
Read moreAre we too negative about motherhood? Everything I seem to read now is about how boring it is, or how much you have to give up and sacrifice, or how things become tricky and complicated when you have children. Clearly, lots of people are missing a trick. Along with all the good stuff you…
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Amazing new parenting life hacks to try right now
Read moreLooking for some new parenting life hacks to help out with those pesky but common parenting problems? Here’s three problem-solving quick fixes we’ve been sent to review and have been trying out recently. New parenting life hacks 1) The vest that’s also a secret dribble bib…
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Packing for two…plus two
Read moreOh, the places you’ll go. But first there’s packing. When you have two children it’s a process that takes so long it starts before you’ve actually booked the holiday. Whereas packing for just two is purely done on fun (how many bikinis can I justify taking? Oh, here’s one more. Do I need another…
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Happy 60th birthday, Miffy
Read moreOne of the fun things about having children is introducing them to all the things from your own childhood. And one of the things I really, really loved when I was Eliza’s age was Miffy. The Miffy books, with the bright primary colours and deceptively simple line drawings about the little rabbit were always my…