Being a mum involves every minute of my day. Either the kids are with me wishing I was an octopus (they have eight arms), or I am cleaning up after them or sleeping. I’m not complaining, I quite enjoy being needed, I finally have the popularity that everyone thinks they want in high school. Sometimes [...]
The delightful development of Baby Number Two – due December – has recently thrown me into a dither of both excitement and busyness (the busyness involving the couch and a supply of nausea remedies that don’t work), but I’m here now, and I hardly know which toddler tale to tell. One of the biggest changes [...]
Being a mother of two is certainly a juggling act and I have discovered I don’t juggle so well some days. I often find myself still in my pyjamas at 10:30am with a cold cup of tea sitting on the bench. Milla has found pleasure in running away and starting a game of chase when [...]
So at the start of this year I knew it was going to be a hard one. With three kids three and under, including a newborn, I was quite certain that this year would probably be the hardest so far. And so I feel a slight sense of achievement that I’m six months in and [...]