Months ago, when we asked the boys if they’d like to go to Disneyland or have a party for their birthdays, they made the obvious choice. We were off to Disneyland. We got planning, booked the flights and scoured the internet for the best deal on a hotel. It was all set. But as the Read More
Today we’ve celebrated your fifth birthday. It’s such a cliché, but I can’t actually believe you’re five. Five. Half a decade. How did that happen? I’m not ready to have a five-year-old! I wanted to write about you right now so I can look back and remember all your little quirks … it’s amazing how Read More
Growing up with a mother who worked in a library, I guess it was inevitable that I would turn into a little bookworm. I’d go to the library on a Saturday, take out the maximum five books on my children’s card, and work my way through them at the speed of light. I went through Read More
I can’t believe that it’s been six years since we got married … in some ways it feels way longer because so much has happened since – a dog, two children, several new jobs – and in other ways it feels like it was yesterday. Every so often I think back to our big day Read More
Picture the scene. A hen party in Budapest … 11 women, 10 wearing groom-to-be masks, one dressed as Christina Aguilera, complete with two-tone wig and genie’s lamp, and a beer bike loaded with more alcohol than I naively thought a stag do of the same size would struggle to get through. Budapest is a city Read More
I can’t quite believe it’s Christmas Eve. I feel as if I blinked in September and December appeared. How does that happen? Three months have just passed in a haze of work, school events and Christmas panic. I haven’t even had a chance to catch up with what we’ve been up to, so while I’ve Read More
Love it or hate it, elf on the shelf is huge … and I don’t think it’s going away anytime soon. We’ve been doing it for the past couple of years, but a bit half-heartedly as our boys have been too young to really get it. This year, our eldest son has been asking for Read More
*we were very kindly invited to Fforestfach Retail Parc to take part in this challenge. The items were gifted, but chosen by us* Does anyone else feel like Christmas shopping can be a bit overwhelming? I love it, don’t get me wrong – there’s nothing better than browsing the shops when it’s all festive – Read More
I don’t know about you, but I tend to chop and change beauty products quite a lot, and never stick with them long enough to see the benefits. I read about a “miracle product”, buy it and give up after a week because it hasn’t got rid of my dark circles, wrinkles, or made my skin Read More
You know how when you go to a toddler class, a birthday party or a sports group and there’s “that one child”? You know the one. The one that if you’re being kind you’d describe as free-spirited, or on the other hand you’d describe as feral? Turns out that child is ours. For months now Read More