Elfie: My #ARWOMAN
You may have seen the #ARWOMAN campaign floating around a couple of blogs recently. It is a movement created by Atterley Road, whose goal it is to get women openly celebrating other woman. As a pretty headstrong feminism loving…
Category: Elfie
The Day Elfie Became A Princess
For reasons I really want to write about at a later date, I’ve become somewhat of a feminist in the last 12 months. It’s been an odd thing – I’ve gone from feeling slightly ambivalent about feminism to being confident…
Elfie Is 4! Again!
I’d totally forgotten when I wrote about Elfie’s fourth birthday fails a couple of weeks ago that we’d get to do it all over again soon after: her birthday party! In the whole process of organizing Elfie a 4th birthday…
Sometimes Shit Days Happen (Alternative Title: Happy Birthday, Elfie!)
In my infinite wisdom I decided that Monday was going to be a big day for Elfie. It was her 4th birthday so it was already huge. So huge that she padded into my bedroom at 4.55am to say “is…
Raising Daughters
The parenting of little girls is a job that is so special. Boys are boys and boys are awesome, but compared to our daughters they really are as different as slugs, snails and puppy dog tails. Yesterday I did something…
On Sometimes Not Liking Your Children (But Obviously Still Loving The Crap Out Of Them)
After the week I’ve had (and it’s only Wednesday! Give me strength) I have to put this out there: sometimes when we’re having a really tough week, though I love them ‘to the moon and back’, I struggle to like…