Tired of reading parenting magazines and articles featuring ‘perfect’ parents, warnings against having babies too young, too old, too…middlely(!)…. and that if you don’t plan to breast feed for the first ten years of your child’s life, you’re already a terrible parent?
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‘It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Yearr…’ we sing in our house as Halloween approaches. We really do love it – from the second school is back in session we are planning our decorating theme, our costumes, the movies we will watch every Friday for ‘Movie & Pizza Night’ and genuinely, it’s pretty much […] My mind has been blown by my kids and their veggie ways this year. Jacob (9) has been vegetarian for just over two years now and is really, really into it. Like, in a major, I-can’t-order-fish-without-him-having-a-meltdown into it. ‘WHY would you eat fish? Fish are our friends! MAM!’ The guilt is too much so I […] When Lockdown The First hit us in March I instantly lost all sense of time and space. We closed our two Skinny Batch Bakery locations, sent all the engineers and staff home from Dynamic Ltd; as everyone locked the doors and pulled down the blinds while we waited for the CoronaZombies to fuck off. Which […] If 20s are the new teens and 30s are the new 20s, 40s the new 30s and so on.. when does middle age officially begin now? I recently turned 42 and let me tell you.. all hell is breaking loose. If I compare photos from last year to this, there are outrageous differences – I […] I wanted to write something about all these lip fillers you see everywhere. You know, on the 19/20/21 year olds about the place; the ones serving your coffee, taking the train to college, teaching your kids dance class. The ones whose lips look too big for their little faces & you know they don’t truly […] Last year it was Minecraft. My then 6-year-old spoke only in Blocks and Villagers, Obsidian and EnderDragons. By the time I got around to Googling ‘WTF Is The Actual Point of Minecraft?!’ he had developed a whole new language altogether. This one consisted of Energies and EX’s, Evolutions and Legendaries. Prone as I am to […] Eva starts school this September. We got the letter at the beginning of the year, asking us to nominate our school preference for her, and I thought, ‘They have this wrong. She doesn’t go until next year, right?!’ WRONG. Our baby girl turns 5 this July and off she pops then to school after the […] I like the summer holidays. I do. I like living by the beach – especially when we have summers like this one – because the age-old question in Ireland of ‘WTF am I going to do with them all summer?!’ is easily answered by packing everyone off to the seaside for a long, lazy day. […] Yes, this is a real post and yes, this 100% happened yesterday. As if getting our little darlings back to school wasn’t excitement enough, Eva approached me as I sat on the couch yesterday evening after dinner, with just a tiny bit of trepidation. “Mam, I just wanna tell you something. I just sort of […] I am generally a pretty positive person, but with a healthy dose of self-awareness. It’s great to have platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter et al to filter messages about our lives and the way we would like for it to be portrayed. But what’s really going on? Are our kids always smiling, standing by the […]
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Well said ! Happy New Year to you and Yours.
From Me and Mine.
Xxxx
Love the honesty, love you. Never mind the fuck ups, we all have loads. Look at all the brilliant things instead!