Having two boys and living in Wales means I have no hope of avoiding rugby. We’ve already had stick for the eldest playing football and constantly kicking around the “wrong shaped ball”, and he’s only five! So when we were offered the chance to go and watch Wales v England at the Principality Stadium at Read More
I apologise for what I said when I was hangry. That sums up the past two weeks of living in what I’m describing as no man’s land. The fortnight between being told I’m diabetic and getting an appointment to see a specialist. You can catch up with the few months leading up to this here. Read More
My name is Alana, and I love carbs. Like, I LOVE carbs. I’ll plan a day out around a coffee and cake stop. I’ll always choose the most sweet or stodgy option on the menu. And yes, I’ll unashamedly eat a Super Noodle sandwich, followed by a good old Wispa and a cuppa for my Read More
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