Parenting: It Doesn’t Get Harder – It Just Gets Different

Advice.  It comes from all sources.  From your mum to your next door neighbour, well meaning friends and family to the random old lady in…

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When Did I Become a Shouting Mum?

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks, leaving Dubai, settling at my mums, dealing with Daddy going back to work.  Temperature changes, sunlight changes, life changes.…

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Baby Milestones: When His Firsts are My Lasts

This week the Baby has started walking.  Those first few wobbly steps with his arms in the air.  Looking round at all of us to…

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When the Class Teddy Comes to Stay

If you follow me on Facebook (and if you aren’t why on earth not!) you might have seen that this weekend we brought home the class teddy.…

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The Hazy Memories of the Baby Years

This week the Baby has been practicing standing all on his own. The first steps towards walking.  With him doing that I was catapulted back…

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Today Parenting was Tough

Today my children pushed my buttons.  All of them.  Today parenting isn’t a joy, today parenting was tough, parenting was a chore and I was…

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What the Baby REALLY Wanted for his Birthday

So that’s it, my last Baby is one.  ONE!!!!  And of course turning one means you’ve had a birthday.  And birthdays generally mean presents (and…

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