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Christmas Craft #1: Family Fun Wish Labels

November 28, 2014 by

I’m optimistically going to try and do at least 20 crafts for Christmas over the next month. Quite how, I have no idea, but I think I need a goal to make myself work at. All of us are feeling like our family time has gone horribly wrong over the last few months and we […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Being a Parent, Christmas Crafts, Drawing, Uncategorized Tagged With: advent, christmas crafts, family time

Sponsored Video: Choosing wisely for a bright future.

November 14, 2014 by

We flowed from the high of GCSE results day to the final decision on what Sixth Form Fran would attend, to last minute tweaks and changes to A Level choices and the scheduling in of enrichment activities around personal commitments. And all of it, for the first time, was judged up against the future. Lists […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Fran, Home Education, School, Science, Sport & Dance Tagged With: A Levels, careers, home ed, making A Level Choices, maths, options, physcis, school, science, teenagers

Almost 3.

November 2, 2014 by

              He’s almost three. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when he wasn’t firmly at the centre of the family. He talks ALL the time now. When he doesn’t know the word he find a way round it. When he can’t get us to do his […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Photos Tagged With: life with a rainbow baby, life with toddlers, parenting, toddler

On Beauty: The Dove Legacy Campaign. #FeelBeautifulFor

October 10, 2014 by

Her life – and motherhood for me – began with beauty. “She has a little problem with her mouth,” they said – and handed me my firstborn with a blanket across her face. Within hours, almost before I had had time to meet her, my room was filled with pictures of other babies, other children […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Thinking Tagged With: age, beauty, body image, cleft lip and palate, Dove, feelbeautifulfor, fitness, self esteem, teenage girls, teenagers, weight

What Motherhood Means to Me #voiceofmums

October 3, 2014 by

Motherhood. It’s all of this blog. The days out, the diagnosis of yet another life challenging illness or difference, the juggling car journeys around 5 different activities spread across town with overlapping start and finish times. It’s only being good at making quick meals with tuna in and knowing (or not) where PE kit is, […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life Tagged With: #voiceofmums, Comfort for Snuffly Noses, cussons, motherhood, parenting

Simple Things

September 21, 2014 by

We had 3 days apart this week, Bene and I. It was too long really, though I had a marvellous time. And he was fine. This morning was perfect, him waking up to find me in the bed I wasn’t in when he fell asleep last night. There was pure delight in his eyes. It […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict Tagged With: childhood, Montessori, practical life, toddler pkay

Too tight to try a tuff spot.

September 9, 2014 by

This is what happens when you are doing toddlers for the 5th time. The girls would have got a tuff spot. Bene gets a cat litter tray and a bag of soup beans. I really wanted to be be good at toddler stuff this time round. I was going to be all messy play and […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Toddler Play Tagged With: easy toddler activity, messy play, not got a tuff spot

The boy, the bed & the bedroom.

June 23, 2014 by

After 2.5 years, give it take the few cot months before the chest infections, this happened at nap time today. He’s co slept almost his whole life he naps on a mat at nursery but here he feeds to sleep and sleeps in our bed. Mostly he sleeps through if he has daddy for company; […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life Tagged With: bedtime routines, co-sleeping, grief, life after loss, moving on, toddler sleeping

Connecting. They were children.

May 31, 2014 by

Parenthood is a funny old thing. (Understatement.) It never settles in one place, I find. Perhaps that is having lots of them or perhaps it isn’t. One thing I can’t know is how it would feel to have not had lots of children. When Fran was little I used to stare at her as she […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life

I'm glad I spent it with you.

March 13, 2014 by

Today was a ‘motherhood’ day. Ups and downs. Growling as I stomped around the house looking for a very lost kindle which eventually turned out to be hidden (in a very toddler manner) behind the radiator that is behind the sofa, growling more as I encountered the bedrooms of my daughters. That’s life. Mess, missing […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Photos, Toddler Play Tagged With: housework, me time, motherhood, parenting, toddlers

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