The little messer

In the last few weeks – I’ve watched Lou become more and more adventurous….he is full of mischief, he’ll look back at me before charging towards the kitchen cupboards giggling with anticipation. At the weekend he discovered that glass tastes pretty good and if he licked it his parents would burst their sides laughing (our bad…) and then [...]

Read Full Post »

Apologies…

…for the lack of posts, I’ve had a wee bit of a health set back, turns out after a routine check up with the doc that my thyroid gland is barely functioning and I gave my lovely GP a bit of a scare when she got the blood tests back…. It’s mad – as Louis [...]

Read Full Post »

Getting our hands dirty

It’s still quite warm outside but a bit overcast and as the sky is dominated by ominous grey clouds we decided to stay close to home and spring clean the garden. The unusually heavy December snowfall, combined with freezing temperatures had severely damaged many of the trees in the locality, splitting cypress trees in half [...]

Read Full Post »

Foot in mouth prevents me from making friends

I have a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. Other new mums back away slowly after a few lines of conversation and I realise I will remain friendless until I rejoin civilisation and get back into the conversational swing of things. Prime example, on Tuesday, I just about made it to the Reel parents screening of [...]

Read Full Post »

New dads can spend the night…

Just read in The Guardian that the NHS in UK is overhauling its policies to allow new fathers to stay overnight in the maternity ward on the night their baby is born. I would have loved for this to have been possible when Louis was born as I had to have an emergency C-section after [...]

Read Full Post »

Returning to work

In scouring my favourite sites for some words of advice on how best to handle returning to work after a generous 28 weeks of maternity leave I came across two lovely articles from mum bloggers which have helped greatly so I wanted to share the links here The first from Liz of Mom 101, titled [...]

Read Full Post »

Chore chart for kids

Okay so Louis can’t quite sit solo nevermind help me dust the joint but I do want to bookmark these beauties for a later date….Lovely & FREE (!!!) printable chore charts for kids from ModEco Kids – you can download the template here

Read Full Post »

5 months today and growing up too quickly!

So the last two weeks we’ve noticed a huge difference in Louis, he’s 5 months old today and is now able to grasp his toys and pass from one hand to the other, and inevitably whatever he manages to get his hands on goes straight into his mouth. Everything must pass a rigorous taste test, [...]

Read Full Post »

Strangers beware!

Okay so I’m now on week 23 of my maternity leave and boy does it get lonely at home all day on my own. Don’t get me wrong – I know I am incredibly lucky to get this time with my son, but spending all day with a 4 month old who can’t yet form [...]

Read Full Post »

What’s in your handbag?

Thanks so much to Hot Cross Mum for her lovely Sunshine Award that she bestowed on me – and as for the ‘What’s in your handbag’ tag – I’ve gingerly taken a look into my overflowing mess of a bag and well here goes….in order of how they fall out / come unstuck from the [...]

Read Full Post »