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• Breastfeeding Led Voting

  

  Someone knocked on the door a few weeks back, I didn’t answer, I was preparing pasta pesto and fish fingers for my little girl. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• the Wee Wee Wiggle

  The other morning I realised we’d run out of nappies …and so we decided that it was time for big girl knickers.From that point on, some five days ago, things... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Rebirth

  

  Funny old thing, time … One minute there you are with a newborn baby wondering over every minute, every detail of a new person, and then woosh – suddenly you... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tucked up by 10

  

  Some friendships endure, you meet as children and know each other for ever, slipping in and out of each other’s company with ease no matter the circumstance... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Lovely and Literal

  We visited some friends at the weekend, we hadn’t seem them for nearly 6 months, but we hadn’t been there long when she started asking for specific toys, and... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• That Moment

  … when I’m sitting working at my computer having snuck out of bed early so as not to wake her, and the door opens and a dishevelled, sleepy little soul marches... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• This and That

  When you have a toddler, you don’t have time … fact.You have time for them … listening to wonderful made up stories, patching up sore knees, curling up... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Three … Can You Believe It? Three

  

  In the kerfuffle of the new year, she turned three.THREEthree years old. I have a three year old. She must have been spirited in by storks or mythical gipsies... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Nits and Threadworms …

  Hmmm had an email from playgroup warning of the presence of nits and threadworms … never heard of the latter and was traumatised as a child by the former due... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Finally a ‘proper’ Mummy

  I did it … I did it … three years and a week or two since she was born and I finally did it. At last I’ve conquered my fears and at last I’ve done what every... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Stolen Time

  

  I don’t know what’s happened recently, someone has stolen my time … days have vanished, literally, and not just any old days, but Christmas, New Year, small... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Calling Time on Breastfeeding …

  

  With all the uproar in the mainstream media around breastfeeding older children, I’ve been asked my opinion by several people … I gave it almost a year ago in m... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary’s Boy Child …

  

  They were born a few months apart … they’ve grown up together, it was his mum that introduced us to the wonderful playgroup we go to, the one that organised... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• the Night Before the Nativty

  T’was the night before the Nativityand Mary had a cough.Let’s hope a dollop of medicine and a good night’s sleep do the trick … she’s SO excited, and so... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• the Tale of a Tail

  Recently she’s become very attached to one cuddly toy, not even one she was given, but one her Granby bought for Easter last year and never gave her because... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Book … My Book

  

  I’ve not mentioned it here before, I didn’t want to jinx anything … I didn’t want to give the game away …butI’ve written a book. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Pin Ups and Calendar Girls

  

  They transformed not just our early days, but her following weeks and months … and now because of them, we’re still going strong, Hope still loves her milky... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Just Only One

  well, one or two …there is so much she says and does that makes me brim over with happiness … of course there is the odd, very odd, time that a stroppy paddy... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Most Precious Moments

  

  I was invited to be involved in a fundraising project for La Leche League GB, organised by a lovely photographer (herself a busy mother) from the south coast wh... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• 1000 Days of Hope

  

  This week we reached a major milestone … well it felt like that to me. Not that I’ve been counting days or anything, I saw someone on Twitter the other week... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 SELF EXPRESSION