Nursery’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 sea so it always feels like being on holiday, and the weather has been very undecided, so it definitely feels like your typical British seaside…
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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 being held. Oh baby, it seems like parting is unsweet sorrow.
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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 parent’s house this week and I’m still recovering from this evening’s attempts to get both girls to go to sleep in one room. They were…
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On the right foot – children, shoes and choices
Read moreMy daughter has a new thing; deliberately wearing her shoes on the wrong feet. Funny, right..? Well, let me explain.
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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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Mother’s ruin; a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover
Read moreMother’s ruin…here’s a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover… The post-pregnancy hangover…a guide Oh, the whole world of pain that is the post-pregnancy hangover… After years of practice throughout my teens and twenties, I thought I knew hangovers. Ha! I was wrong. One of the less well-known pregnancy side effects is that you turn…
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