This post like the one I wrote to Sebastian has been a long time coming. It's a post I keep going to write yet cant quite find the words. And at the same time one which actually means so much to me. I love writing posts to my children on their brithday reflecting on them and they year they have had. However somehow find it so hard to put into words their first year... ***************************************** My darling Isabelle, I know it sounds cliched but where on earth have the last … [Read more...]
A Giveaway & A Coffee Machine
For the long time now, Steve and I have talked about getting a coffee machine but truth be told, until a couple of weeks ago it was STILL all talk. That was up until the lovely people at NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto and TerraCycle sent me one. Seriously, there was all sorts of happy dancing happening at our house. To be honest, as much as I had wanted one of these I was a bit daunted by how complicated they appeared (!!!), huh, what a joke. They are so easy in fact I am sure Sebastian … [Read more...]
Preschool
It's official my little man is a big pre-school boy. I have been preparing myself for this moment for a few weeks now, yet when his first day rolled around, nothing actually prepared me for how I felt. It was a bittersweet moment. Whilst I am thrilled he is loving it so much and thriving at the new challenges he is facing, I can't help but feel a tinge of sadness. I have been put off sending him to pre-school / or kindy until he was three as I loved having him at home, … [Read more...]
3 Years With My Little Man
3 years, 36 months, 1095 days, 26280 hours, 1,576,800 minutes and 94,608,000 seconds! is how long you have been in my life is the length of time I have been a Mummy the length of time I have been your Mummy the amount of time my heart was walked around outside my body how long ago my life was completely and utterly changed. Forever. For the better. I am sure I say this every year but... I can not believe another year … [Read more...]
Honesty. Honestly.
Earlier in the month there was a bit of drama; (for want of a better word) in the blogging world around the need for more transparency and honesty from bloggers in relation to whether something they have received has been gifted or not. It got the blogging community talking so the article itself clearly did it's job. Like all good debates there is two sides to every story and I will admit, this article and the subsequent conversations over social media, certainly … [Read more...]