I knew being a mum was going to be hard, but not this hard

I knew having kids would mean there would be difficult days, days where I was frazzled and they were crying.  I knew that it wasn’t…

View Post

I don’t pretend to understand politics 

I don’t pretend to understand politics but even I realise that today has been a big day in American politics.  More than that today has…

View Post

Why mums are so tired all the time

Being tired, it kind of goes hand in hand with being a parent right?  From newborn baby to non-sleeping 18 month olds.  From tantrumming terrible…

View Post

How coffee mornings really go down when you have children

Arriving in Qatar in the middle of August meant two things, the first was that the desert heat makes Doha hotter than the sun during…

View Post

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…

View Post

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…

View Post

What the Bedtime Story really sounds like….

Sometime last year I read a wonderful post on what the bedtime story regime was really like, I’ve been searching for the post ever since…

View Post