My little one turned ten recently (have I mentioned that yet?!) and I am sat here with a well deserved G&T after the whirlwind of throwing yet another birthday party. Over the years I have been asked lots - accompanied by looks of horror - about why I always choose to throw birthday parties at…
Continue reading ➞ OO-AARR me hearties! Throwing a pirate party!
TEN YEARS I've been a mum for ten. whole. years. What the fxxk?! You know that's a decade right lol?! Almost a quarter of my life. And yet somehow someone who has missed the other three quarters of my life has managed to sweep in and take the whole damn thing hostage. Crazy. But not…
No-one tells you when you have your first child that at some point they start to raise you, instead of the other way around. That the predictable routine of you being the care giver starts to tip on its axis and your dependable little dependent will start to race ahead leaving you standing in their…
And here we are, the end of 2018. That time of year in which I usually fill my cup with wistful resolutions whilst simultaneously filling it with bubbles to bring in the New Year. And with every joyful sip taken, the chance of each resolution seeing the light of day rapidly disappears. Typically, these resolutions…
And BANG it's December, with the Big Day hurtling towards us in a flash of work parties, Christmas shopping, and festive school days all on top of the usual full-time job, school run and parent life. Sometimes, it's hard to catch a breath and to stand in the eye of it all. Still. Silent. And…
Continue reading ➞ Festive Feast for the Eyes; Enchanted Eltham at Eltham Palace
I posted my very first blog post a few days back under the category of single parenting. I mentioned in it that I have previously given little thought to what it means to be a single parent, or the impact it has had on my parenting experience, so recently acknowledging this as a 'thing' has…
This weekend we decided to get our festive on and the location of choice was Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, UK. To be fair the main purpose of our visit was to go to the new Dinotropolis attraction that's just opened although it would be rude not to get into the whole Christmas spirit thing…
There's a lot of single parents about nowadays. I just don't seem to know many! I mean, if the media was to be believed us single mums are out there pushing out those babies like some kind of chain-smoking, dole-claiming, penis-riding takeover of respectable middle-England. To be fair the few single parents I know…
I bloody love autumn. It's the 'twist and turn' season where everything falls, turns the most triumphant shades of orange and gold and then gets whipped up by blustery winds in a grand finale before the silence of winter descends. I never used to like autumn as it's the prelude to winter (of which I…
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“Motherhood: it ain't for the faint-hearted” said by me, after a gin some gins. To be fair, this is a polite take on my favourite ever parenting quote made by a lovely friend of mine to another mutual friend (pregnant with her first child) over a Sunday roast. Only, what she said to our heavily…
The Sound of Motherhood 