The fact I have two children is often at odds with my aversion to crafting. They love an afternoon with a stack of cardboard and some PVA, go wild for poster paints and can’t get enough of Hobbycraft, so I try and suck it up just for them. But I need the simplest craft in the world – like this one! – to be able to get handy with the scissors.
I’ve spent the last day and a half in bed with something gross: a mum with a bug. Every time I attempt to parent while trying to nurse some kind of horrifying bug I wistfully think back to the pre-children days of illness. Back then it was always a shitter – sometimes literally – to be ill, but it was also more of a treat, too.
The Easter holidays are definitely my favourite out of all the school breaks. Ours started last Friday so we’ve almost been broken up for a week. We’ve been up to some awesome things already…
I’ve bought my mum Mother’s Day gifts for, ooh, approximately 27 years of my 32 (I assume Dad took care of the first few – thanks Dad), and it’s a present I always enjoy giving. I’ve understood why in the…
I blog for a great many reasons, and one of these is the bank of memories I’ve accrued over the years. It’s no secret that when babies are born (and for the next two, three or seven years) they are…
I often give thanks for the fact I’m a parent in the 21st Century. I dread to think what I, a worrier of massive proportions, would have done without the aid of a good old Google or Facebook community. Seriously,…