My maternity leave ends in six weeks and I have no job to go back to. I’d planned it that way; I was (and am) ready for a change anyway. I’d been a carer to my grandma for around four years and I’ve left her in great hands, so now
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(Not all that grumpy, really)
My maternity leave ends in six weeks and I have no job to go back to. I’d planned it that way; I was (and am) ready for a change anyway. I’d been a carer to my grandma for around four years and I’ve left her in great hands, so now
Continue readingTo find out about our Sunday Book Club posts, visit the information page here. This is what we’ve been reading this week… Squidge I’ve been reading Squidge and the Watabus go to India by Watadventure.com to Squidge this week. I started reading to him at bedtime from him being just
Continue readingI love a bit of do-gooding, me. If I can help someone out, I will. It not only benefits them but it benefits me, and the children too. In today’s crazy world where I turn off the news on the radio in an attempt to keep their minds innocent for
Continue readingTomorrow is my birthday. I’ll be 35. When I turned 30, I had a fantastic time. I took a long weekend break with around 30 of my family and friends, then the following weekend had a huge party. It was just perfect. I’d looked forward to it, planned every detail,
Continue readingSquidge is eight weeks old in a couple of days. He’s still only very young but the fact is that I can’t put off my weight loss plan any longer. We fly to Florida next spring for the kids’ first holiday abroad and I don’t want to be body conscious,
Continue readingI went to a blogging conference yesterday and took along my five week old baby boy. He apparently wasn’t keen on attending many of the speaker sessions as I discovered when he cried every time I tried to join one. So rather than disturb the other attendees at Blog On,
Continue readingNow that the weather is cooler, we do still try to get out as much as we can. We have the dog, so we’re out every day in some form or another, but we’re not really getting out as much as we were. We are big fans of organisations such
Continue readingKids are funny. Since becoming a parent I have learned that there are two types of listening I need to be able to do. I need to listen to the words coming from my children’s mouths, and then I need to hear what they’re really saying! Often, these are two
Continue readingI’ve written previously about our beautiful family dog, Betsy. We had Betsy come to live with us when she was just 10 weeks old and we celebrated her third birthday last month. She is as much a part of our family as one of the kids and she’s spoiled rotten.
Continue readingMy Story When I was 15 and revising for my GCSE exams, I suddenly started waking up in the morning unable to control all of the movement in my arms. One minute I’d be fine, the next I would have involuntarily jabbed myself in the gums with my toothbrush, or spilt an
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