Everything I Learned About Life, Love And Sex From Judy Blume Books Who read Judy Blume books when they were growing up? More to the point, who didn’t read them? Never found on any official school reading list, her books – from Starring Sally J Freedman and Superfudge, through to Blubber, Tiger Eyes, Deenie and…
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What not to do when you’re sleep deprived
Read moreIt’s a place where toddlerisms make sense but not much else, where everything is all at once a bit too dull, and a bit too bright, you forget your own name, why you are standing in front of the fridge and even why you went into the kitchen in the first place. Welcome to the…
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Plus seven months: it gets easier…?
Read moreOne of those parenting ‘things’ people always talk about is at what point it – as in general, parenting, mum and dad life – gets slightly easier. In the park recently with some friends we’d not seen since we all had babies, we were talking about when toddlers go from being just walking, newly curious and…
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Wooden mobiles of wonder from We Are Scamp
Read moreWe will, at some point, be moving both girls into the same room in our house. Although it’s still a plan at the moment – it seems like such a huge step – I’m looking out for things for their new joint room that are similar but also individual. So I really liked these personalised…
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We’re MAD Blog Award finalists! Nine reasons to vote for us…
Read moreI interrupt these ongoing baby rambles to bring you the news that…we are finalists in the 2015 MAD Blog Awards in the best pregnancy blog category. Cue crazy faces and baby-faced selfies. I’m completely thrilled and amazed; the biggest of thank yous to everyone who nominated us. My blog is a labour of love and it means…
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One wedding and a baby dilemma
Read moreLast weekend we went to our first wedding in a while where I’ve not been secretly or heavily pregnant. And, as a result, this was swiftly followed by my first hangover in a while (the pain). Having known about the wedding since before Florence was born, I’d vaguely though we’d be OK to leave her,…
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Busy mum, and other phrases I’d change in the parenting dictionary
Read moreI read the news this morning that the Scrabble dictionary is being updated with slang and more modern terms. While I doubt I’d actually have the brain capacity for a game of Scrabble right now – is zzZZz a word? Oh, the lolz – I’m always interested in these types of news around language. Especially because…