Can I be more?
As a stay at home mum I am often considered by the wider society to be a glorified nanny. On forms I even have to tick the unemployed box or homemaker box. Neither of these boxes even begin to encapsulate […]
Our Decision
When I started writing this blog I did it with the intention of being completely transparent and honest about my life. I didn’t want to hide behind a veneer of perfect imperfections – I wanted to tell the whole truth, […]
My Spectrum Kid
For a little while now we have been coming to the realisation that there may be more to Rufus’s personality, that there may in fact be an underlying explanation for his idiosyncrasies. Rufus is kind, intelligent, brave and all around […]
Accepting the things we cannot change
So we’ve made it. We’ve made it to the end of week two of the Summer holidays. The kids have had swimming lessons, we’ve been to the park, gone riding on our bikes, had a new boiler installed (on the […]
The choice I made
I have been a stay at home mum for six years now. In that time I have become a mum to three yummy (at least I think so) kids and have inevitably centred my life around them. I spend almost […]
I miss my boy
Rufus is less than a month from turning 6 and in the last few months he has most definitely turned from being my baby boy into a fully fledged little boy. He’s gone from being cuddly and snuggly to wanting […]
Learning about my son
Just over six weeks ago Rufus started Year 1. Reception had been a bit hit and miss with him. Some things he had loved, learning to write, starting to read and his wonderful teachers, Miss Groves and Miss Prosper. However […]
What’s so scary?
I have now been through two very different child births. My first was long, exhausting, painful and yet it was peaceful. I felt calm throughout and the hours after the birth were full of cuddles, dozing and feelings of pure […]
Where has all the kindness gone?
You can call me naive, you can say I’m idealistic but there is something that has been bothering me a lot lately and I need to get it off my chest. People on the internet can be really shitty sometimes. […]
The boy who thought too much?
Rufus is 5 years old and he is more grown up than most 30 year olds I know. He’s witty, sweet and astonishingly in touch with his emotions. Just the other day Eloise was given a magazine by somebody and […]