Oh my - the feelings I had yesterday to be shortlisted as Best Newcomer in the Cosmopolitan Influencer Awards were just absolutely wonderful. In fact, I'd gotten so excited, so full of gratitude and so wonderfully confident that I was truly in the belief that I could possibly win this thing. A date with my [...]
I can't believe I just typed out that title. Can we talk about co-sleeping for a second? I don’t like to label parenting choices but if I could best describe ours to date, it would be filled with patience, ‘picking battles’ wisely and being firm but fair. Battles are few and far between in this [...]
Let’s talk about fuck ups. Parental ones. I’m talking about the ‘dropping the baby on their head’ stuff. The stuff we don’t talk about. Hell, I’m sure I’ll get judged by a minority for bearing these stories but then I don’t really mind. I am a great mum and I know it. That’s the point. [...]
Ah, and breathe. Today I was basking in gratitude. My husband is home, my kids are on the right side of healthy, as am I. Maybe there’s a lack of sleep and a mountain of worry (that I shouldn’t be worrying about) but life is beautiful. My mental health has been pushed to it's limits [...]
Sitting here knackered with my two sick kids and my double chin, I've been getting that awful deflated feeling of judgement for airing our lives to the world. I get it often. I've noticed that the only reason I get it, is the constant fear of the backlash I may receive off a knobhead. You [...]
I’ve been a riot, I’m talking heart palpitations, sickness, headaches and all round major anxiety issues. Yes my period is due but I’ve totally insisted to my husband that that is not it. I couldn’t pin point it until last night, the day before half term. It hit me that I was seriously sh*tting myself [...]
I see you, I do. You are right over there but your name isn't Jamie, it's Dad. Past the skid mark on the carpet and the multiple dolls house pieces. Over that half eaten sandwich and a little further right of the sh*tty nappy that the dogs had a good lick at. Nope, past the [...]
My youngest daughter and I are still in that bubble. Our slow, giggly, fun loving and ridiculously sheltered bubble. I cherish these moments, maybe more so than I did with our first daughter because I know how quickly it changes now. I now know how fast these moments pass. The days where we had [...]
I'm not one for putting restrictions on my life but this one has become more of a need than a want. How we associate ourselves with alcohol can differ so greatly. We all turn to it for different reasons but I never found myself thinking about why I turned to it previously and why it [...]
I don't know about the rest of the worlds parenting population but I do know for myself and my husband, the kids nap routines have consistently ruled our lives. I mean, we've done it all. Hastily writing polite letters to the postman to 'Back the f*ck off" when I forgot my ASOS parcel arrived right over [...]
