• The magic of grandparents . . .

    I’ve always considered myself to be very lucky. Not only do I have a wonderful Mum who, alongside my Hubby, is my best friend – but for the first 11 years of my life I grew up living with my Mum, Nanna and Grandad. I will always treasure those years because they made me feel […]

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  • A Mother’s Pride

    Last week whilst getting ready for moving house, I arranged for Little Bean to spend the afternoon with one of her Godmothers so that I could get on with packing. Nothing strange in that you might think, but actually she has never spent time on her own with her Godmother before. Only ever when I […]

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  • Daddy’s Girl

    The past few months I have watched Little Bean’s relationship with her Daddy blossom and grow. She has always spread herself pretty evenly between the two of us but since I am a stay-at-home Mum we obviously spend lots of quality time together doing lots of fun things. She’s a funny girl because the person […]

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  • And baby is . . . . .

    a BOY!  We went along for our 20 week scan this morning and took a very excited Curly and Little Bean with us.  Curly has made it no secret that he desperately wanted a baby brother this time.  He even had the conversation with Daddy this morning about “what if baby is another little girl?” […]

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  • The problem with relationships . . .

    is that people forget you need to work at them. In the last week, I have been told of two relationships that have broken down since the birth of a baby where the father has ventured elsewhere. I’m sure all parents would agree that becoming parents is a wondrous, exciting event – yet at the […]

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