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Not the usual type of book that I review but I was drawn to this baby advice book having devoured many during my three sets of newborn days and first months. Sarah Norris does not promise to make you an expert on all babies. Instead, she aims to give you the skills to decode what […]

You may have seen from my #project365 post or Instagram that last weekend I took Anya to get her ears pierced. Meanwhile in the news, Kylie Jenner has been criticised for pictures showing her 5 month old with pierced ears. So what are the rights and wrongs of this situation? Firstly let me tell you […]

Ooh this is a tricky one! It has been in the news this week that school experts including the dreaded Ofsted believe that mobile phones should be banned at school. I grew up in the era before the prevalence of phones. If I needed to phone home I had to use the pay phone in […]

Most of our family traditions are to do with Christmas but since filming I have remembered that every night I say ‘love you oodles’ and the kids reply ‘little poodles’ 🙂 My parents used to say it and now I do too: routine or tradition?

I have a theory… Chris is actually a superhero! While I was away this weekend, he seems to have held everything together and had the whole house organised in a way that I never seem to manage. Every night when Chris arrives home from work, he is greeted by a slightly exhausted, majorly frazzled looking […]