THERE’S one thing every new mother I know struggles with – fitting in some “me time” around all the baby duties. While absolutely loving my maternity leave, having some time to myself is something I’ve been longing for recently. So when Stew bought me and my mother a spa day with afternoon tea for Christmas Read More
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The rubbish mother’s guide to sensory play
WHAT do you do when your baby is bored of all their toys (even the Jumparoo), has enough energy to run 10 marathons and you can’t face leaving the house again? Oh I know, sensory play! It seemed like such an easy option for whiling away a couple of hours. How wrong I was. For Read More
New Year’s Resolutions: How are we getting on?
SO we’re one month into 2015 already, and like everyone else I started the year with some aims in mind – and so did Santi. But how are we getting on? With a monthly progress report I thought we might be inspired to stick at our resolutions and make them last a bit longer than Read More
Cinderella shall go to the ball
IT’S Christmas party season, and not counting Santi’s calendar of events I had two events to look forward to this year. The first was Stew’s work party, which I was actually invited along to. This might not sound like a big deal, but after three years of being told there were no plus ones I Read More
The first day off
PIES, pizza, shopping and The Lion King – we had one day off from parenting and tried to squeeze everything we could into it. It was planned before Santi was born, when I bought Stew tickets for The Lion King for our first wedding anniversary (I struggled with the paper themed gift so kind of Read More
Happy Halloween?!
WHEN Santi arrived at his first Halloween party he was dressed as a skeleton. When he left, he was dressed in a vest and wrapped in a pink blanket. Safe to say it wasn’t a huge success. We were off to a good start, managing to dress and leave the house by 9.30am, but the Read More
There were three in a shed…
AMONG the dozens of items packed for two nights away were wellies, a steriliser and – perhaps optimistically – a hairdryer. Having never been glamping before I wanted to be prepared for anything. Yes, we went glamping. In October. With a four-month-old. It was my idea – Stew had a couple of days off and Read More
I just want to sleep like my husband
MY darling husband shared this with me on Facebook, so I thought I’d share last night’s experience to show just how true it is (bear in mind this was Stew’s night to get up and my night to sleep)… 8.30pm Santi goes to bed 10.30pm Santi: Asleep Me: Asleep Stew: Asleep 12.15am Santi: Wakes and Read More
The monster under the sink
OKAAYY. So the day started with me thinking I’d lost the dog (again), continued with a drenching in an absolute downpour and ended with a panic that Stew was dead. Just a standard Thursday then. Santi woke at around 8am and wasn’t settling, so I went downstairs to make him a bottle. For the last Read More
Why we chose to start a family in Llanelli
I WAS not so delighted to read the news today that my hometown of Llanelli has been ranked as having the second worst town centre in the UK. According to a survey that took into account the “vitality” of 500 town centres, Llanelli came above only Dudley, which is pretty depressing (I’ve never been to Read More