When Parenting Goes Wrong
An awkward look back at the last couple of weeks
The New Normal
March 16th, 3am. I wake up in the middle of the night, and, instead of rolling over and going straight back to sleep, I reach for my phone, to check ...
Are you prepared for a Coronavirus pandemic?
When it comes to the Coronavirus outbreak, most people I know (or see online) seem to fall into one of two distinct groups: 01. People who are just too cool to ...
Things That Went Wrong This Week
This is part 3 of my occasional series rounding up some of my most recent awkward moments and/or random acts of stupidity (You can read the first two instalments here ...
My Pregnancy Diary is Now Available as a Book!
When I started posting my pregnancy diary online, way back in week 8, I really wasn't sure what kind of reception it was going to get. In fact, to be ...
Baby’s First Trip to Accident and Emergency
Yesterday morning I had a ton of stuff to do, so Terry volunteered to take Max to a toddler playgroup he'd heard about in the village, while I got myself ...
The Awkward Files
Yesterday afternoon we were on our way home from a quick shopping trip (Went out to buy shoes for Max, came home with a sweater for me instead, then had ...
6 Things I’ve Never Done That Always Seem to Surprise People
You know how there are some things in life that pretty much everyone has done? I'm taking here about things so commonplace that when someone mentions one of them, everyone else ...
The Awkward Girl’s Guide to DIY
Two months. That's how long we've been at this stair remodel, folks. Two loooooonnnng months. And, honestly, one of the main things I've learned from this experience is that doing DIY ...
A Day in the Life | March 2019
Thursday, March 7th, 2019A couple of days ago, I put out a call for blog post suggestions over on Instagram Stories, and one of the requests was for a 'Day ...
Stair Remodel Part One | Planning Permission & Demo Day
When we were buying our current house, one of the things we liked least about it was the stairwell - or stairwells, plural, rather, because, ours being a three-storey house, ...
Max’s First Birthday
On Saturday morning, at 11:51am exactly, my baby boy turned one, and, just like that, the longest, shortest, happiest, saddest, hardest and most life-changing year ever came to an end. The ...
Max’s First Christmas
Happy Christmas, everyone! And, yes, I know I'm just a little bit late with the festive greetings this year, but, well, you can see the reason for that at the top ...
We survived our first flight with a baby, but only just
How to survive five hours in a tin can with an overexcited almost-toddler.
Banishing the Ghosts
I'm standing in Terry's mum's house for what I think will be the last time before it's sold, and I'm looking at the ceiling light. It's an ordinary kind of ceiling ...
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
So. Yeah. I honestly can't even believe I'm about to write this, but, remember that time Terry and I managed to flood our entire house just a couple of weeks before Max was ...