The Lurgy
Things have been pretty miserable in our house over the last few days because poor Bubs has been sick. There’s nothing quite so horrible as seeing your child unwell; it makes me wonder how families cope when they have a seriously ill child because if I get upset watching Bubs with a fever, god knows [...]
emotional blackmail
I’ve been getting a bit frustrated lately by Bubs’ inability to crawl; or more specifically at his frustration at not being able to crawl or move in any way from the places I put him down. Our days are punctuated by mini temper tantrums sparked when he can’t reach a toy and when I don’t [...]
reality check
The death of Big Brother celebrity Jade Goody from cervical cancer sparked a media frenzy – and gave lots of young women just like me a wake-up call that could save their lives.
baby olympics
If you’ve not had a baby, chances are you’re blissfully unaware of the intense pressure that’s focused on an unwitting infant from the minute it’s born. There is a kind of clandestine ‘baby olympics’ that only mums know about and that babies compete in whilst blissfully unaware that anything is going on. It starts off [...]
Ha ha I win
This weekend I’ve done a few things that reminded me of my ‘old’ life, pre-Bubs. Friday night I went out with a few of the girls to a charity event and I must say it was great to let my hair down with a few too many drinks and a night of endless laughing! Granted, [...]
Ta-dah!
Yay! My first ‘week’ back at work is over and I must admit it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. The first morning was hard and I did cry half the way to work, but then Bubs pulled a rabbit out of a hat and decided to amaze us all by [...]
Let the guilt commence
It’s my last week of maternity leave. This time next week I will be having my tea break on my second day back in the office. It’s the end of an era. Talking to a pregnant friend the other day I felt compelled to warn her – ‘you are fucked once you have a baby, [...]
laugh a minute
Whenever I sit down to write this blog it’s usually because I’ve been reflecting on something deep and meaningful about being a parent, but it’s not all melancholy around here! In fact, as Bubs gets bigger our house is increasingly filled with laughter as he gets more and more hilarious and as we go to [...]
looking back, thinking ahead
New Year is a funny old time. I’ve long since got over the desire to hit the town and have people trampling all over me and spilling drinks down my back just to experience that often contrived and always anticlimactic midnight moment. But try as I might to ignore the turn of the year, I [...]
all wrapped up
So that’s it; Bubs’ much-anticipated first Christmas has come and gone a bit like all the Christmases before it, in a blur. Not of alcohol and revelling, though, more of sleep deprivation, endless visiting of relatives and of course, far too much food (me not him). For the first time ever Santa visited our humble [...]
