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Five things I now know about Christmas
As an antidote to yesterday’s slightly downbeat post, here’s something more festive: five things I didn’t know about Christmas until I had kids. 1. There’s a reason kids go to bed early on Christmas...
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Five things I thought I knew about parenting
“Take the path of least resistance” was the wise advice from Fiona Kennedy in this week’s blog interview. This is certainly the path we took in our house this morning, which is how the two-year-old...
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Ten things I’ve learned about parenting
As part of lovely Learner Mama’s linky, I’ve put together ten random things I’ve learned about parenting. They apply to me; they may not apply to everyone. But I wish my pre-mother self had known some...
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5 things I haven’t learned at all about holidaying with kids
Every year, bright-eyed and innocent, I look forward to going away on holidays – to reading and relaxing and resting, and to getting lots of sleep and sun. And every year, I am yet again taken by...
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5 things I got completely wrong about starting school
When my first child started school two years ago, everyone said it would be a big change. I didn’t exactly disbelieve them, but really, I thought, how big could it possibly be? Unsurprisingly, I got it...
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8 Things I’ve Learnt About Christmas Since Having Kids
Before kids, I was adamant that Christmas shouldn’t start until December – the second week would be just fine thank you very much. Jingle Bells on the airwaves any earlier than that just felt wrong....
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9 Things I’ve Learned About Being a Working Mother
Over seven years as a mother working outside the home, I’ve learnt a thing or two: 1. The working mother clichés are true Soother in suit pocket? Check. Smushed banana on trousers? Check. Racing out of...
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The Rites of Passage – 6 Things I Might Have Done Too
Tonight I fished a pair of socks out of the toilet. Little red and navy striped small-boy-sized socks. I could make three guesses as to which child put them in there, but I’d be right on the first one....
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Things I said this week that didn’t make sense when I met my husband
“They’ll all be in the cloud thing anyway,” I said to my husband last night, talking about backing up my photos. In the cloud “Maybe we should put them on the lap top anyway,” he said. “Just in case...
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8 listicles I nearly wrote this week
3 things that are pretty great about freelancing at home This would-be list, written only in my head, was inspired by being home three times this week when the postman brought parcels, and raiding the...
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