I often remember a lot of parents saying “new borns are a breeze, it’s toddlers are the difficult ones” and I remember looking down at my little squishy baby wondering how he could ever become difficult. Grayson is now 20 months old, and heading for 21. He hasn’t been a …
Before Mark and I even knew we were having a baby we’d discussed baby names and Grayson was always our number 1 choice. We obviously played around with the idea of a few different names, but nothing ever came above Grayson for us. However, these are some of the names …
I’ve never liked Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, when I was a kid I’m sure I did but in more recent years I’ve never been a huge fan of Christmas. My family have never been HUGE on Christmas and due to a lot of different factors I just found it …
I think letting kids use things like phones and iPads will always be a bit of a debating topic for a lot of people (parents or not). I also think there’s nothing wrong with a healthy debate, and that’s why I felt this would be a good post to do! …
I always find the ways that people choose to parent their children really interesting, not in a judgemental “my ways right and you’re wrong” type of way, but just because most people’s parenting types are different and I love to see what works for others. When you search the internet …
I know from different experiences, that when you have children it can sometimes be difficult to remain a team with your partner. If you haven’t discussed it beforehand, you could find that you have very different ideas of how you want to bring your children up or you may find …
I think as you get older, and especially when you have a family of your own, you have to put a bit more thought into Christmas and start the planning well in advance. Now we aren’t these people that start buying stuff for Christmas in January – far from it! …
My brain works in such a mysterious way sometimes, that it’ll just throw little brain teasers at me every now and then. One that I’ve recently had is ‘is there a right time to start a family?’. Which got me thinking. I’d always known I wanted kids, and that I …
For a long time I’d convinced myself that I was bound to be a mum of girls. I grew up with my younger sister and surrounded by a lot of girls, when I got into a relationship with Mark the majority of his brothers had girls (with the occasional boy!) …
I was lucky enough to be a stay at home mum with Grayson for 16 wonderful months. While I did love it, I’m not the type of person that can live off of someone else’s money. I’d always feel guilty having Mark pay for every thing, it’s just not the …