Isn’t it funny how much better everything seems when the sun comes out? For the last couple of days, the children have gone outside to play as soon as we arrived home from school. This afternoon is so warm that I’m sat outside with my laptop. My life hasn’t miraculously got better and yet today the…
It has been one of those weeks where I’ve had lots of work on but just as many excuses to step away from the laptop. Take last night for example. I had a million and one work-related things I should have been doing. And yet what I was actually doing was arguing with a roll…
I can’t believe last week was half term, it seems like we’ve been back into the routine for ages. Not long enough to be organised though of course. We’re still at the point of running late every day and doing everything in a bit of a rush. Rounding off half term in style We made…
We toyed with the idea of going away this half term but in the end, we decided against it. There were a few uncertainties with my husband’s work commitments. Lia’s nursery and the girls’ dance classes were still on as their half term is next week and it all just got a bit complicated. So we…
By the time my second child came along, I thought I knew what I was doing. My first child is outgoing, confident and eager to learn. But if there’s one thing that siblings teach you, it’s that even the closest children have such very different personalities. The dancing diva If you’ve been following my last…
Now that February has arrived, I feel suddenly very aware that it’s not all that long until the summer. This may seem like a good thing. But for somebody who might have had one too many glasses of wine and entered a half-ironman, it’s a bit of a concern. It is particularly problematic because it’s…