• Parenting

    Sweet child o’ mine.

    In 2010 I was pregnant, I would have told you that if my child were a girl she wouldn’t always wear pink, if it were a boy he wouldn’t always wear blue. I would have told you that my child…

  • Life

    Lessons I have learned. Well, some of them.

    Six years ago I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first-born (she was late already) and the start of a new and exciting chapter to my life. The chapter where I become a stay at home mummy (or SAHM…

  • Parenting

    Perfect Mother?

    Recently I had the (mis)fortune to read a blog post about the Perfect Mother. I’m not going to link it but to loosely paraphrase, us ‘honest’ mummy bloggers need to pull ourselves together, make a from scratch Annabel Karmel meal…

  • Parenting

    Hey Wills, you’re not alone.

    Last week, during a visit to Vietnam,  Prince William admitted he struggled with parenthood. The internet was vicious! HOW VERY DARE HE? cried Twitter. “U don’t know meaning of struggle”* “This man has no idea what it means to struggle…

  • Parenting

    Like raking leaves in a hurricane.

    Before I had Aoife I was very house proud. We didn’t have the biggest house, it was clean and tidy but not soulless and clinical. I’ll admit that one of my proudest achievements after having Aoife was maintaining a clean and…