Yesterday I was nominated for the Leibster Award by The Paranoid Working Parent. I was over whelmed! I was curious to know as much about it as possible. I think that this a greta way to find out more about the bloggers you are following. The Liebster Award is given from one blogger to another… Continue reading The Liebster Award

This weekend has been a change, I went to go and see one my oldest friends Mrs Bot. We have been friends for over 20 years and have seen and shared some amazing experiences – probably too many to name. The most memorable is the trip around Europe before we started life in the real… Continue reading Just for me:)

Big M and I have been doing the Toddler Tango for the past few nights now (thankfully not last night which means I have the brain power to write this!), she has decided that she is going to wake up at around about 2.30am and scream as loud as she can, get out of bed,… Continue reading The Toddler Tango

How has this week simultaneously gone so fast and so slow? We’ve some how managed to fit so much in just 7 days. We went to a local farm and enjoyed seeing the girls interact with the different animals.  We went away for a night to a fancy hotel and had a wonderful and well… Continue reading Back to school blues 

Sleep is a bit of a distant memory at the moment. Both Big M and Little M are under the weather. As they both had tonsillitis over Christmas I’m really conscious of anything cough and temperature related.  Last night I was recording Big M’s cough so I could prove to the doctor today that she… Continue reading Coughs, colds, sniffles and sneezes 😷

…the same shape and size I was before I had children. I know in my heart of hearts that’s never going to happen. For starters I’m a completely different shape to what I was before and I also eat a lot of chocolate and enjoy a beer/glass of wine at home.  So what can I… Continue reading I wanna be…

Who helps you with your children? Who babysits so you can have some very important ‘you’ time? Who makes your life easier just by being there?  I class myself as being very lucky, my sister in law is our rock. Twice a week she comes round to help us put the children to bed –… Continue reading The very important support network

Me and my husband have been married 6 years in August and we’ve been together for nearly 10. So we had a good few years before we had children to enjoy Valentine’s Day, just us two. One year we even went to New York!  This year was a little different as we now have 2… Continue reading Valentine’s Day 2016

My parents are amazing, they travel for an hour every Friday to come and look after my children while I attempt to stay awake at work.  Today they took them to the beach which is about a mile from where we live. Big M (the 2 year old) favourite thing to do at the moment… Continue reading Crazy toddler moments 

The 2 year old has been awake since 4.30am…why?? I tried all my usual tricks to get her to go back to sleep: Have a big cuddle Have some milk Get into bed with her Leaving her to get on with it NON OF THEM WORKED! In the end I had to get the iPad… Continue reading Trying to stay awake at work