A Life in the Making

Her favourite thing...after cake.

Aren't these sweet? I am not really into the whole Cath Kidston floral and polka dots thing, but I saw these in a charity shop and had to have them.  They sung to me and at £4, unmissable.  They were supposed to be £4.50, but I had all 3 children with me, creating havoc with the shop and as I wa...

When first breakfast occurs at a time in the morning beginning with 4, second breakfast is required. 

Plans stop. Life slows.  The laundry pile grows. Ahhhh, the joys of winter and sickness. You know you are a mother when you start being sick at the side of the road 1/2mile from home and still have to push the (double) pushchair all the way to the house, up an enormous hill listening to your 4 y...

Saturday was one of those days where nothing got done, no one could get along and then ended with tears for 3 out of 4 of us. And so, when Sunday dawned bright and warm (ish), there was just one thing to do...go the place where we are all our best.     Rather than our usual haunt, we headed to t...

    Inconsolable babies just break my heart and then send me into a cold sweat.  I am instantly thrown back into the months and months where Ellis would not stop crying as a baby.  I can not think or talk, I go into a blind frenzy of "I must soothe this baby". And in my absences from the other t...