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First Day Blues
Today is my first ‘real’ full day at big school. 10 whole hours to be precise. This is the first step in realising my dream of becoming a teacher. I don’t do emotion filled posts often but here ya go....
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Mum-Preneur of the Moment #1 – Joanna Fitzpatrick Photography
You’ll remember that I recently decided that I wanted to expand the blog a little and introduce some new features. I noticed that a lot of the people I chat to on a regular basis are mums who also run...
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Mum-Preneur of the Moment #2 – Baby Cakes and Bundles
My second mum-preneur is a very good friend; I went to High school with this mum and have known her for years. I feel old now. She makes stunning and unique gifts for all occasions. She started out...
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Mum-Preneur # 3 – Home Heart Style
Mum-Preneur number three is Kelly. She is my first Mum-Preneur that I don’t know personally and I have discovered her wonderful business through Facebook. Kelly specialises in simple but charming home...
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Mum-Preneur #4 – Fabu.Alice Fabrics
Tell us a bit about yourself I’m Sian, I’m 24 years old and I have three children all aged five and under. After having my children in child care so I could work, I decided I wanted to have more time...
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Mum-Preneur #5 – Auntie Carrie & her Crafty Corner
Carrie is my fifth mum to feature on Mum-Preneur. She runs a small business from her home, sewing unique clothing and accessories. As if being mum and mum-preneur wasn’t enough Carrie also helps to...
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Mum-Preneur #6 – Bespoke Party Bags & Favours
My sixth Mum-Preneur of the moment is Joanne of Bespoke Party Bags & Favours. Joanne is my first single mum, full time working Mum-preneur and what an inspiration she is to all single mothers out...
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Dear H #1
I love you so much during those moments right after you’ve had a tantrum and lashed out. You’ve just screamed at me and slapped my arm but instantly you knew it was wrong. You stepped back, wrapped...
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The Full Time ‘Everything’ Mum…
Some of you may have noticed that there has been complete radio silence on the blog front recently and for this I apologise, this is my grovelling blog post to all of my loyal readers who have stuck by...
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H’s Hospital and Hip Update
You may remember a couple of months ago we had to book an appointment with an Orthopaedic Surgeon after concerns about our boys legs were raised during a check up. I wrote about it, you can read that...
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The Confessions of a Full Time Student and Mum
As you all know, because I’ve reminded you thousands of times, I’m back in full time education and boy is it hard work being a student and a mum. Here’s my top 15 ways I have changed since becoming a...
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Things I love Thursday
I love that I’ve made such good friends at college after only eight weeks. I’m gonna be honest with you now, I think I’ve been bullied. The person in question has taken an instant dislike to me and one...
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Happy 80th Birthday!
Now this is the story all about how My life got flip turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just to sit right there I’ll tell you how I became an expert on a disease called dementia. Fred...
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Next Door Neighbours and Police Complaints
I’m sure you have all heard me complain about my next door neighbour. She’s absolutely awful. She is a single mum of three children, two boys age six and seven and one girl who’s three. Every morning...
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Organ Donation
Have you ever considered donating your organs? Before I became a parent I had this rather selfish idea that I needed to be buried with all of my organs, the very thought of having them removed, even...
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Vile Neighbours Saga part 2
This morning I had to call the police again regarding my next door neighbour. It was loud and awful to listen to her kids screaming. I called the police and then popped to the supermarket at the end of...
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Christmas, it’s just another day!
I hate Christmas. I’m not one of these mums who can happily throw myself into the celebrations and traditions. I really have to force myself to want to participate. Before H came along I never used to...
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Christmas Eve 2013
I think whilst sitting alone on this Christmas Eve (waiting for H-bombs Christmas jumper to finish in the washing machine) I may finally be understanding the magic of Christmas. The magic of Christmas...
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Self-proclaimed Bitch!
Lately I’ve been feeling kind of pissed off with the world again, it’s winter, Christmas and the end of a tough few weeks at college and to be quite honest I just can’t be arsed. But what’s bothering...
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The Good and the Bad of 2013
January, the month of my birth. Nothing remarkable happened, I turned 26 and that’s about it! We had snow and H was loving it (hopefully you can see the link)…...
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