Every now and then certain pregnancy/parenting topics pop up that start a conversation, create a debate and then usually end up being labelled “mummy wars”. I don’t buy into the whole mummy war thing – I’ve never personally come across it and I don’t know anyone who has. Unless people are talking about me behind my…
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I couldn’t find a hallmark card for Father’s Day that says this
I don’t know any parent who thinks that they’ve got this parenting business sorted. The people I surround myself with are perfectly flawed and mostly just 30 seconds away from mayhem. MM and I are making it up as we go. We aren’t always on the same page when it comes to our parenting technique. Shit we…
This is three
Charlie was just six weeks old when someone said to me that the days are long but the years are short. I was a new mum, truly and madly in love with my son but I also had this weird anxiety about everything so any snippet of wisdom offered to me I grabbed much the…
Mean girls or just bad days
Lately I have had this messy imbalance going on that has had some implications on my life. I have had to remind myself that I don’t really subscribe to that whole balanced life concept – my time is spent at any given time – where it is needed most at that point. When it starts to…
Sometimes it’s okay to give up
Last month I featured as a guest blogger over at Love from Mim. I wrote about #MyFiveThings and it was the five things I learnt from IVF. You can read it here. If you want. Anyway, one of those five things was that it is sometimes braver to give up than it is to keep…
About a friend
fI haven’t felt like writing much this week. Not so much that I didn’t want to write, I just haven’t felt as though I had anything to say that didn’t seem frothy and irrelevant. This week my very dear friend lost someone so very close to her, someone she loved immensely, a soul sister. She and her husband are grief stricken, of course…