I am the trailing spouse

Doha is my second stint as an expat wife, a trailing spouse, a stay at home mum.  Moving here, for my husbands work, was a…

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Week 13 #RememberingTheseDays Round Up

It’s Sunday, which means that it is time for the #rememberingthesedays for photographs that capture the special moments in family life round up with myself and Clare…

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Now you are four

To my biggest boy, Now you are four. It sounds so cliche but it really has gone by in the blink of an eye, it…

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#effitfriday 30th September 2016

It’s Friday which can mean but one thing here on Life with Baby Kicks – #effitfriday the ultimate rant linky party is back for all things…

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Some days there is no joy in parenting

Social media represents the 5% of your life that you want to show off to the world.  The joyful moments.  The soppy hashtag-soblessed moments.  Those…

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5 things I said I would do to be a perfect parent, but don’t….

I had a list as long as my arm before I became a mum of things I would do.  I had an ideal of how…

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An open letter to my expat kid

To my boys, Expat life, it’s all you’ve ever known, the ultimate expat kids.  From the biggest being 6 months old when we first left…

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