Turtle Bay Swansea opened a couple of months ago, and I’ve been keen to try it out after hearing good reviews about the Cardiff branch. When we had a couple of child-free hours a few weeks ago we headed straight there to escape the drizzly Welsh weather in favour of some Caribbean sunshine … well, Read More
To look at me, you might not think I’d need to set body goals for the year. But for the first time I’ve had to, for a few reasons. Before Christmas I was feeling very tired a lot of the time, which is probably not unusual for a mother of two under 3.5 who works Read More
Let’s just start by saying how long January has been – I swear it’s been the longest month ever. Christmas feels like an eternity ago. Anyone else feeling like this? There have been long days cooped up in the house to avoid the rain, and what feels like very little daylight, but at the same Read More
I just walked into the littlest boy’s bedroom after an hour-long bedtime with our eldest, and found my husband on the floor. The scenario sums up the whole weekend. I don’t like to complain, but just thought I’d share for anyone else who hasn’t had the most perfect of two days off work… So, to Read More
Bedtime. Somehow it always comes down to me. Ok. It always comes down to me with the biggest boy. Or with both of them when Stew’s working nights. Or when only I’m good enough for either of them. Let’s just say bedtime is generally my domain. I get home from work just before 6pm, start Read More
Since Christmas Day, our biggest boy hasn’t slept through the night once. Unlike our littlest, who’s ended up in our bed by midnight for as long as I can remember, he’d had a good run of 10/11 hours each night, which I was getting used to. All of a sudden it stopped. Every night one Read More
Every now and again I take an accidental break from blogging. These breaks are getting a bit more frequent as I struggle to find the time to sit down and write these days. Actually, I struggle to find time to even think about what I want to write, let alone get the words out. Before Read More
I’ve got a bit of a rule about Christmas. It’s a pretty simple one, and you’d think it would be easy to stick to. Christmas does not start until December 1. Well, that one went out the window this year. Christmas has officially started in our house – with three trees up and decorated, the Read More
IF you read my last post, you’ll know that we went pumpkin picking this weekend. We came home with seven pumpkins of various sizes and no idea what to do with them – ever the organised family! Stew wanted to carve his (the huge one), but I wanted to try something a bit different with Read More
When you become a parent there’s so much to get used to … no sleep, figuring out what your baby wants when they cry, why the poppers on a babygro never do up quite right, the onslaught of visitors. And often, visitors who just don’t say the right thing. How many of these have you Read More