motherhood
The stage of parenting we're not told about
There’s so many stages of parenting that I feel we have so much advice and tips given to us about. We can prepare ourselves. “Sleep when baby sleeps” “Ahhh my baby has a rash, I know to do the glass test” “My child has hurt themselves, kiss it better”. We kind of know what to do and what not to do. We’ve read it in a book, on a forum, our community has told us.
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wellbeing
A Wholesome Sunday
I resisted the urge to lay in bed, sleep a little longer, scroll on my phone. I got up, made a coffee, went to put the washing out on the line (then realised the load I put in yesterday didn’t actually wash, damn it) then I did go back to bed. But with good intentions.
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travel
Murrays Motor Museum | Isle of Man
In 2019 I took my boys to experience their first Isle of Man TT. Unfortunately, the weather didn't want my boys to experience it properly and in the 5 days we were there we only saw one practice race. The rain sadly caused the other practices to be called off. Good for the racers, not quite so good for us.
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motherhood
Done Mother!
One of the bittersweet things about your children getting older are those words that they never used to be able to pronounce properly now being pronounced exactly as they should. I will always miss the words cuggoowe (cuddle me) eweven (eleven) beweieve (believe) and wenembwa (remember). And many more to be fair.
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motherhood
Mental Health of a Solo Parent - Part 4 - Holidays
I think I'm quite good at being able to not compare my life to those online. "Comparison is the thief of joy". Sometimes it can be hard. I don't have a big social circle, in fact the majority of my friends live around the country so it's not easy to just all get together. My family is small, other than my boyfriends family which is quite large…
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