This morning it occurred to me that I have sailed (albeit a little shakily) into the next stage of parenting…. But let’s just start at the start, shall we. STAGE 1 : Maternity leave (before the baby arrives). This is possibly a few weeks (if you’re lucky) of forced rest before the little bundle roars….
CRACKING CRAIC
What a great night of craic! I was literally homesick for a country I wasn’t even born in! On Wednesday night, ‘Paddy Flynn’ welcomed us to his ‘Irish Celtic Pub’ (actually at The Palms at Crown) and sang and danced us through the history of Ireland. My feet kept tapping and my own husband, Paddy…
5 MISTAKES YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY MAKE AS A PARENT
As I lay awake staring in to the dark at 3am Sunday morning, I began my usual routine of ‘thinking’. You know, about ‘things’. All of the THINGS. This can range from a sudden urgency to confirm when the Library books are due back, to the expiration date of the milk in the fridge, to…
CHIT CHAT AT THE SCHOOL GATE
How incredibly fast does a school day fly by? One minute you are swinging out the school gate and next thing, BOOM; you’re right back there! As the mum of the ‘new kid’ this year, I have possibly been just as anxious about making friends as my son. It is simply exhausting plastering the,…
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
My husband has a running joke that our Wedding Day was the best day of ‘my’ life. And he would actually be right. It is ten years this October since we were married, and though the bumps in the road have certainly appeared along the way, we have done our best to fill them in…
DANCING LADY IN RED EMOJI
I officially received the acceptance letter for my baby to start school next year. Is it so wrong to be wildly excited? Is it just not ‘motherly’ to have broken out an insane amount of the red dancing lady emoji in all my recent text messages? Is it a 4 year old (pardon me, 4…
KOOKY FOR KOOKI U
So I have sunk to a new low…quite literally. But I do not regret it for a second. Why should my kids have all the fun? I love a good bath. Better with a candle or a trashy magazine and especially without kids banging on the door. Recently we were sent some Australian bath products…
IN A BLINK OF AN EYE
When people told me that my babies would, ‘grow up in the blink of an eye, so just enjoy it,’ I popped that little nugget right up alongside the, ‘sleep when the baby sleeps,’ rubbish. You see, it was always said by a smiling elderly lady at the supermarket whilst the kids were screaming for…
MOVING RIGHT ALONG
Sunday morning I lay in bed and heard the kids creep down the hallway to get their iPads. Unbelievably, they snuggled back in their beds to watch their shows. There were no revolting nappies to change. There were no babies requiring milk. There were no wet sheets, no kids smacking me on the nose at…
MY BRILLIANT(ISH) CAREER
I am thinking the French countryside. I will be friends with the local winemaker who looks remarkably like Colin Firth. Despite my lack of French, the friendly delicatessen owner will always slip a little extra cheese in my string bag each week. I will cycle off home to the cottage (which is actually only nicknamed…