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General Life Parenting Toddler LifeMarch 18, 2019

The Seagull & The Fish

This isn’t really a story about a seagull and a fish. More, it’s a story of how a seagull and a fish made me cry a little bit this evening. Out of nowhere, while reading one of our absolute favourite books, probably my favourite one actually – The Snail and The Whale. The story (by…

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General Life Parenting The Truth About...March 14, 2019March 14, 2019

10,000 Kisses

{Originally published January 2016} When Rian was born, we got loads of practical and thoughtful gifts for him. One of the gifts we got was a memory box – well actually we got two beautiful ones – and I love them. However, there are some things you can’t put into the memory boxes or the…

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General Life Parenting The Truth About...March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Finding the Balance – The Working Mother

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Sheryl Sandberg Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s not me but just a phase I’m going through right now. Whatever ‘it’ is, it has me feeling very uncertain about things in my life at the moment. Maybe it’s because 40 is hurtling down the road at…

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ivf Parenting The Truth About...March 6, 2019March 6, 2019

For When They Ask: ‘Where Did We Come From Mam?’

There’s an app called Timehop that I love. It takes you on a daily trip down memory lane, showing you photos and videos ‘on this day’ style. With the sheer amount of photos and videos on our phones it’s easy for things to get lost in a sea of forgotten moments, so I love this…

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Parenting The Truth About... Threenager Toddler LifeMarch 1, 2019March 1, 2019

The Eldest Child – 3 Things He’s Taught Me

As an eldest child myself with three younger sisters, I often noticed the frustrating unfairness that sometimes came with being the eldest. Often getting blamed for stuff just because I was older ‘and should know better’, and often finding that rules that had once applied to me, suddenly no longer applied to the youngest child.…

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General Life ParentingFebruary 24, 2019February 24, 2019

Let’s Parent Like It’s 1993

If you lived with a four year old obsessed with George Ezra’s Shotgun song, who pestered you non stop all day asking “Mam can we listen to ‘underneath the hocksun‘ now?”, what would you do? Well, if you were me you’d start off by saying every time, “it’s not ‘hocksun’ Rian it’s HOT SUN, and…

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fertility ivf The Truth About...February 20, 2019April 25, 2019

The Effects of Infertility

“Fuck off with your ‘Relaxed’!” {Also features on The M Word } Recently I wrote a post about Living With Infertility, and I focused on what the direct impact of it was like at the time. But although it discusses infertility itself, what isn’t often discussed is the effect of that, and how it affects…

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