#MySundayPhoto
Last week for #MySundayPhoto I brought you a picture of Misery Guts and I on our wedding day to mark our seventh wedding anniversary: this week I'm bringing you a picture of my little man on the steps of the very same church! He was [...]
4 simple ways to lose baby weight
Pregnancy. It does weird things to your body, it does weird things to your hair, it does weird things to your face and it’s hardly surprising if you don’t look quite the same afterwards. In fact it would be weird if you did look the [...]
5 easy ways to eat well on a budget
Is it me or is the weekly food shop getting more and more expensive? In a little under a month, after six months of exclusive breastfeeding, it will be time to start weaning Littlest B meaning we’ll have five mouths to feed instead of four. [...]
A little bit of news!
Not that sort of news, but I've got a little bit of news nonetheless. Remember when I wrote a post about why I feel like a little part of us is missing? If you missed it here's the story in a nut shell: Misery Guts [...]
#MySundayPhoto
Social media followers will know it was our wedding anniversary this week. It's been seven years since Misery Guts and I said 'I will' and this is one of my favourite pictures from the day, taken at our wedding reception. We got married at St [...]
10 top tips for finding the perfect cleaner
If there’s one thing I’ve dreamed of since becoming a mum it’s having a cleaner. We’ve never been able to afford one so instead I’ve been comforted with memes such as ‘my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors’ while being [...]
Why I tell my kids I’m sorry
Do you ever totally lose it? I mean really lose it? I don’t lose it very often – very rarely in fact – but when I do I really do. Why I tell my kids I’m sorry Nine times out of ten it will be [...]
Are you a naked house?
Are you a naked house? It occurred to me, as I pushed the vacuum cleaner around the living room the other day wearing nothing but my birthday suit, that we are most definitely a naked house. We sleep with no clothes on, we go from [...]
#MySundayPhoto
Littlest B turned five months old this week. That means there's just one month left until the highchair comes out and weaning commences. She's been exclusively breastfed up to now and my goodness is she hungry! Here we are in a typical pose with my [...]
10 reasons baby number three is the best
They say three is the magic number, and I reckon it is. I’ve been a mum of three for five months today, and I realised pretty early on I was enjoying it even more than I did the first and second time around. I don’t [...]
5 weird ways pregnancy changes your hair
It’s no secret that pregnancy changes your body. Often in weird ways. And it’s no secret that pregnancy can change your face too. But what did come as a surprise to me is the weird ways pregnancy changes your hair. Or my hair anyway. As [...]
My top 5 newborn essentials
Stuff, stuff and more stuff. If there’s one thing they don’t warn you about parenthood it’s the amount of Stuff you suddenly acquire – some needed and a lot not. After three babies I’ve got quite good at streamlining Stuff (see such posts as the [...]
#MySundayPhoto
With the littlest having been the subject of #MySundayPhoto for the last few weeks I thought it was about time I featured the oldest. Here's BB in a photo I took at our allotment this week - a photo that I think perfectly captures how [...]
10 best gifts for c-section mums
What's the best thing to give a mum who's had a c-section? I've got several friends who've had caesareans recently but I know absolutely nothing about them, other than that it's major abdominal surgery, you can't drive for six weeks afterwards and you’re not supposed to [...]
