We’re now into autumn and I have started to plan our third Christmas as a family of three. O will be at that awkward age of 2 years and almost 5 months old on Christmas day this year. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find age appropriate toys and games for him, without them being… Read More
Great British Bake Offwe love you sowith your buns and your cakesand your well-proven doughSir Paul of Hollywoodwith your goatee, two tonethe king of all bakersworthy of your throneLady M. Berrywe wish you were our granwe’d never go hungryindulging your frangipaneThen we come to our jestersyoung Sue and Melour favourite odd couplewhom in love we… Read More
with Hallowe’en fast-approaching, it got me thinking about what Hallowe’en traditions we would like to pass on to O. i have some awesome memories of Hallowe’en growing up. my dad would carve Jack O’ Lanterns from swedes. my brother & i dressing up as ghouls, witches or vampires, using clothes we already had, face paints… Read More
**warning – this post contains scenes of a distressing nature. if you are easily offended or upset, please close your browser now** this normal Monday, I put O down for his after lunch nap at 12pm. 12:15 came and he was still not sleeping… this is unlike O, but we’ll go with it and give… Read More
a long time ago, in a maternity ward far, far away….. S and A decide that it was a fantastic idea to move house on the baby’s due date…… A, S and S’s mum arrived at the near empty maternity/labour ward with status of 0.5cm dilated….. A discovered the fun of matching shapes to everyday… Read More
our O is only a tot. 2 years old to be exact. but after finding the www.thinkmoney.co.uk website, i’m wondering how we can teach him about money in the next few years. although it shouldn’t be, money is so important in modern day life. there are things you can do for free, obviously, but they are… Read More
hi there, S here. after reading many blogs via the medium of twitter, i sincerely loved reading other ladies’ birth stories. even when pregnant, i enjoyed scaring the shiz out of myself but crying with happiness and overwhelming joy for other’s and their gorgeous babies. so i thought our first proper post should be my… Read More
We have been nominated for a Leibster award!! Donna over at What The Redhead Said kindly nominated us as an “up and coming” blog. Very pleased! The Liebster award is a kind of peer to peer recognition; a way of finding new and up coming bloggers with blogs currently registering 200 followers or under. The blogger who… Read More
so the first three posts on this blog have been written by my other half S. apparently, i have got to have a go now. but what to write about? what major parenting issue should i wax lyrical about? co-sleeping? breast-feeding? baby-led weaning? actually no, i will blog about an issue so controversial that i… Read More
although I can’t remember a lot of the actual labour and birth of O, I do remember a lot of the time spent recovering in the hospital. as described in my account of the birth story, which you can read here, i laboured for 18 hours in an NHS hospital before finally giving birth to our… Read More
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