1 – Getting older is a fucking gift. The biggest of all privileges. Don’t fight it, embrace it. Be so bloody thankful for all the days you’ve been blessed with. Remember the people who would’ve given their right arm, and more, to reach the age of forty when you’re whingeing Read more…
After a few years of trying to get pregnant we turned to IVF. We were lucky and after only one round, there it was – that illusive second line on a pregnancy test. Twins! Text book pregnancy, I was gigantic but loved every second of it…until a the scan two days Read more…
8 things I’ve learned from the hell of homeschooling I could not be a primary school teacher So, let me be clear before we begin talking about homeschooling. I am a qualified teacher. I have a PGCE in Further Education and teach PE in a school, albeit only one day Read more…
I went through it real tough, for four whole years. Heartbreaking infertility struggles. It started fun, you know? Quick shag here and there. Then “Shall we…. Conveniently forget the protection?” … “Hell yeah?!” Months went by and this fun became a little… Well, regimented. THE OVULATION TEST’S POSITIVE GO! GO! Read more…
As we approach the first anniversary of Covid, one that NO ONE will be celebrating, I’ve been taking stock of the many changes this past 11 months have so kindly delivered. This time last year, I was starting to think about half term plans for my boys (then 7 and Read more…
I’ve never taken a drug in my life. No sirree. Not for me. I’ve watched in amazement at my friends dancing until dawn, sweating their tits off and gurning like they’d swallowed a lemon rather than an E. I’m risk averse you see. If I had ever taken anything I Read more…
16th May 2018 the day our lives changed for the third time. Our youngest daughter, Ava was born. It was a fairly quick birth after being induced but unlike my other two she didn’t cry straight away and the midwife called for help as Ava needed a little bit of Read more…
I had been in love before you came along,Dylan. It wasn’t like I had no inclination of what it would be like. Throughout my pregnancy though, a handful of ‘already Mothers’ had told me, much to my irritation, that this love would be different. Stronger than I felt for my Read more…
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This time last year if I’d been going to my local family-run Italian restaurant for a 6pm tea with the kids; I might have worn jeans. Possibly with a heeled boot but more likely; with a scruffy Converse Hi-top. Because I have always had some level of self-respect and personal Read more…