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A letter to my daughter as she turns two

To my beautiful daughter, It feels like only yesterday that you came along. As is typical of a child of mine, you came in your own time.  7 days past your due date you finally came, on your own terms, which was just fine with me.  You caught us all ...

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Living arrows – 10/52

Every night in our house we basically follow the same bedtime routine of bath, pjs on, stories on Mummy and Daddy's bed and then little ones off to bed. Sometimes Rhys will read his latest book from school, other nights they'll have 3 stories read to t ...

I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful

A quote for Mother’s day

I found this quote either last year or the year before and it is just perfect for how I feel most of the time! I feel so grateful to be a Mother, but also to still be able to just be a daughter too when I need to. I hope everyone's had a lo ...

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A little trip to the Swansea Community Farm

A good friend and I had been trying for about a month to get together for a play date with our children, and we finally managed it! She suggested we take the children to Swansea Community Farm in Fforestfach.  I'd heard of the farm before but had never ...

Try this trick to end a nursing strike

Try this one little trick to end a nursing strike

About this time last year I was slowly winding down breastfeeding with Nerys.  I fed her for about 13 months in the end and it was a wonderful, exhausting, emotional, stressful, glorious experience! In the greater scheme of things I was pretty luck ...

Living arrows

Living arrows – 9/52

My boy. My sensitive, handsome, bright-as-a-button little boy. He's starting to get more self-conscious about having his photo taken, which means I sometimes get a really fake smile, or an over the top one, when I try to capture him. So I really ...