I haven’t posted in the longest time. But as you are all well aware, this is such a busy time of year & I have literally not had a spare minute in weeks! My routines have gone out the window for now & life has literally become surviving day…
So good they said it twice, as old blue eyes sang. I could write 1000 words all based on sayings about The Big Apple but for me the one that rings truest is ‘The City that Never Sleeps’. To say I was mesmerised is an understatement! This city…
A lazy weekend. A frosty lawn. A tired set of parents. And two little girls climbing the walls. “Hey, I have a great idea! Seeing as we got a new Christmas tree last year, why don’t we still put up the old one this year too but decorate it solely…
1st & 2nd born are girls. We lived in a pink, plastic filled, Mattel coloured world. We had tea parties with plastic sandwiches dressed in princess costumes. We wore tutu’s from dawn til dusk & aspired to wear lipstick & live in a tower. I’m not saying any of these…
Work is looming tomorrow after nearly 12 months of maternity leave. I am a basket case! I’m not worried about the work part of the situation (as any parent knows – it’s nearly a break from the kids. Oh bad parent personified here!!!) but I am just worried about fitting…
Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat, please put a Winning lotto ticket in Cliona’s…………Yes it is that time again (already??!!!) & we are all gearing up for the most wonderful time of the year! I am a self confessed shopaholic….so Christmas, for me, is quite literally the…
Thank you Anna Wintour for such words of wisdom – a stealth of knowledge & unattainable glamour. For years I DESPISED spending money on anything but going out clothes. Obviously over the last decade my life and my style has changed immeasurably and now I realise that it is actually better…
There are good days & there are bad days. There are happy days & there are sad days. There are days, like today, where if you are me – you spend almost the whole day with a tissue attached to your nose, snuffling & snorting like a little pig. Welcome the common…
Pre motherhood trips to London were fun fuelled days of shopping & sightseeing stopping only for a glass of vino to watch the suits return from a busy day in Canary wharf or to see what the trendy 20 something’s are wearing in Brick Lane whilst munching on a salt beef bagel. Followed,…
There is little that puts the fear of God into parents more than the clocks changing. However this year I felt like an expert……I have 3 after all. We’ve done it numerous times – it’s not going to be a problem. Oh more fool me!! 3rd born just did as…
Boo! I hope lots of you got to enjoy a lie in today. There was a time I relished the thought of an extra hour in bed one weekend a year. Well, truth be told, I still relish the thought but 9 month olds aren’t particularly interested in the daylight…
As I child I longed, willed and waited for the school holidays to come round. Now as an adult I still do……until they roll around. Then about 2 days in I long, will and wait for the school to fling open its doors again. Just kidding (kind of!!) but whether…
Today I reached a new low. Yes there are all the jokes about the precious 1st child versus “reared in the backseat 2nd, 3rd or 4th child”. And my house is no different to the hundreds and thousands of others out there. Until today. Today we reached a new, unprecedented…
3rd born descended into this world on Stephen’s night last year and to say that things have been a bit crazzzzzy in my life has been an understatement. Lying on my sofa wearing my brand spanking new Christmas maternity top for probably the 5th time in 7 days (at 39 weeks pregnant…
Time is always a problem. And so is the lure of my sofa….television…iPad…..pile of washing (this one tends to be easier to ignore funnily enough). It’s so easy to find a reason not to go the gym. But the best advice I was ever given was this It came courtesy…
There’s little that beats a family trip to the supermarket these days. Oh how I love spending 45 minutes prepping to go and then returning to the house several hundred times to do wee’s, get forgotten coats, find Elsa’s cape, remember to bring the 3pm bottle and by then back in again…
I love this quote. I find Autumn not only a sad time as we bid farewell to the long evenings spent as we wish but also a time for reflection and new beginnings. There is something about getting back into routines that awakens the need for something new in most…
Lord GOD help me!!! I’m a beginner at this. I’ve just released my freshly made, brand new squeaky clean 5 year old into the world of primary school. BUT WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME HOW SOUL DESTROYING THE SCHOOL RUN WOULD BE! Four weeks in and we’ve been too early,…
This weekend brought a close to my 1st week back at work. Which incidentally went fine. But that’s easy for me to say as I was in Dublin for most of the week. Thank goodness for grandparents! My parents quite literally moved into our house for the week in order…
Who am I and what I am doing? Procrastination is the thief of time. And I am seriously guilty of this. For years I’ve said I will start a blog about my messy life brining up 3 small people, how I manage to keep fit and healthy and what I find fascinating, comfortable,…
