I’m tired. My head hurts and I feel very flat. A few nights ago I was watching You’ve Been Framed with the Beans (they LOVE You’ve Been Framed) and one of the clips made resonated with me. It was a clip of a hamster running super fast in it’s wheel and then the wheel became too fast and the hamster just got carried along with it. That’s kind of how…
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Happy Mother’s Day to Me!
I’m such a lucky Mummy, not only do I have the best four kiddywinks (ok today I’m pretending they are always really well behaved and don’t drive me potty!) but today they have spoilt me rotten. I also received a lovely new charm for my…
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A mixed birthday bag . . .
Last Thursday I celebrated my 36th birthday and when I say a mixed birthday bag, I don’t mean a mixed bag of presents. I mean I’ve had a pretty mixed bag as far as birthday celebrations go. My birthday always feels like it lasts a…
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I love being a Mummy
For as long as I can remember I dreamed of one day becoming a Mummy, ‘three’ was always my magic number, the number of children I wanted to have. I don’t know why three exactly, because most people who I know that came from a…
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021/366 – A tearjerker
It’s fair to say that my relationship with Curly has struggled since Beanie Boy came along, not because I love him any less or because Curly is jealous of Beanie Boy but suddenly I struggled to find time (and I know that I am totally…
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Do you feel censored?
When I first started blogging I didn’t really think about ‘who’ would be reading my blog, it was just somewhere to write about life with my family from ‘my’ point of view as a wife, mother and stepmum. All three of those roles can be…
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Stepmum fail!
Before Lillie and Ollie came along I used to think I was a pretty good stepmum to Will. We would often have days out on our own and do craft activities at home or playing games and doing puzzles. Dizzy Disco In the good old…
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The Gallery: Hair
When Tara at Sticky Fingers set the theme of “Hair” for this week’s instalment of The Gallery, there was one picture that immediately jumped to my mind and that is Curly above age 3. I bet you can’t guess how I came up with his…
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Curly’s Baby Names for Bump – so cute!
When Hubby took Little Bean up for her bath, Curly disappeared into his room, sat himself at the dining table with paper and a crayon, and proceeded to write the following lists of his favourite Baby names for Bump.