The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
I was looking back through some old photos the other day, and found some from when Rhys was a newborn. And seeing those photos brought back all these memories of how I felt in those early days with him. I was so happy. I was also exhausted, overwhelm ...
We had a whole week together as a family in February, with Steve taking time off work while the children were on their half-term holidays. Yet somehow we didn't take a single photo of the four of us together. So this month's Me and Mine project is a ...
I have a feeling we'll be one of the only families not sharing a gorgeous snowy photo for Living Arrows this week! It seems like Swansea was pretty much the only place in the UK not to be hit by the beast from the east and storm Emma. We had a bit of ...
I don't know if it was the busyness of Christmas or just life in general, but this little community of mine has been sadly neglected for the last couple of months. But I'm back! With a renewed fire in my belly to get in more photos and to get other pare ...
It can feel like a routine that becomes automatic after a while; you wake up, look after the kids, do everything on autopilot. It's this routine that, in many ways, could slowly start to have an impact on your frame of mind. As much as we love our childre ...
How many times a day do you say 'no'? Not just to your children, but to your partner, to your friends, to yourself. I think it's important to be able to say no, to not take on more than we can comfortably handle. But at the same time I think there ...
Where are all the mums? I deliberated for quite a while over this question. Wondered if I should change it to 'where are all the parents'. But in the end I opted to stick with mums, because this is something that does seem to be more true for mums th ...