Women being kind to each other can be a thing most wonderful. True support, care and love from a fellow sister can be the BEST thing in the whole world. I mean look here, every day some special lady will come here, read what I have to say and then write some supportive words to me in a comment, have … [Read more...]

Daisy was given this puzzle for her birthday. And it's great, and she loves it. She can learn the alphabet AND have fun while doing it!It was while I was doing it with her that I was taken aback. Underneath they have a stencil to help find where the bits go back in. Great right? Helpful too! But … [Read more...]

I'm tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired. Sleepy. Exhausted. Snappy. Grumpy. Tired. Teary. Emotional. Overreacting. Did I mention tried? Tired. Oh. So. Tired. It might have something to do with the fact that I haven't had a proper night's sleep in, what now, 3 years, but all of a sudden it has … [Read more...]

Rob was so keen for me to get the cake off post out there last night that I hardly had time to catch my breath, let alone let you in on the finer details of the birthday. Incidentally it would seem that you all think we are crazy parents, or that both were equally good cakes because it is a DEAD … [Read more...]

So the annual "cake off" is over for another year, and as I said to Rob at 11.30pm Saturday night...this can't go on! We have decided to swap children going forward so next Birthday I will do Harper's cake, and he will do Daisy's and then we will swap over (and of course judge each other on our … [Read more...]

Daisy May Macdonald today you are 3. 3! It warrants a thousand of these ! but I will just use one. Just like Last year and the year before that I wanted to tell you a little about the year that was, your 3rd year of life. I can't believe that I now have a 3 year old daughter. Seriously, weren't you … [Read more...]

Summer Holiday! For 7 (!) nights! I am! Quite! Excited! If you couldn't tell!We wanted to celebrate the end of Rob's show finally wrapping up (after what seems like and what probably is 3 years) and before I have to go back to work...sigh. So we are off to Fiji! I know! I've never been! Cocktails … [Read more...]

My name is Beth. And I am addicted to wedding blogs.I cannot seem to get enough of them. I start on one, and then I look at their blogroll and I am on to another and then another - it's like Alice down the rabbit hole. And I keep annoying my little bride to be sister with a million emails a … [Read more...]

I have spent much time these past few months since Harper has arrived trying to work out this parenting thing. The juggling, the tantruming, the good and bad behaviours (from all of us) all of it - trying to work out how to be a better mother, a more caring, less frustrated and angry mother. I want … [Read more...]

This is how I spend my Tuesday's and Wednesday's when it's just Harper and I.Kids are funny. … [Read more...]

Can report on a successful wedding scouting weekend albeit a very wet one. We managed to secure the location and check out some accommodation/catering/pub options so I think all the items were ticked off for the bride and groom. We even managed to get in plenty of time to sit around and natter, … [Read more...]

I picked up Daisy from daycare this week and as we were packing up her stuff her carer said to me "It's good to know that Daisy is well informed at home". Words that sent shivers up my spine. What HAD she said? Would she have finally decided to say fuck just to see what kind of response she would … [Read more...]

So this weekend we are on full bridal duties. We are off to have a look at a potential wedding location for my little sisters big day. They want to have an out of town wedding (similar to ours and my older sisters) and have found this fabulous place down on the south coast. It looks great but we … [Read more...]

So hi there. This is going to be another post about sleep. Just wanted to warn you to stop reading now because they can be completely and utterly boring and so the fucking same all the time, so come back tomorrow if you want something a little more interesting K?Oh you are interested hey? Gluten for … [Read more...]

My Mum recently lost her job so we have been spending quite a bit of time with her when we can, because we can. Daisy loves going there and playing. I love going there and eating. Harper loves going there and sleeping. Everyone is a winner.This is just some of the shenanigans that go on when we are … [Read more...]

Just when I think I am going to lose my mind after the dinner/bath/ready for bed prep she goes and does THIS. I caught our gal reading this book to herself. SO sweet. … [Read more...]

In a couple of weeks time, our funny little Valentine Daisy will be 3. For those of you who are new readers to the blog you won't remember the challenge that Rob set me last year for her birthday. It was over a casual discussion regarding the Humpty Cake I was making for her party when he threw away … [Read more...]

One of the best things about being a parent, in my humble opinion, is the teaching part. Kids are sponges and will take on anything you teach them to be true. And I'm not talking about teaching them french, or their numbers in 3 different languages. No no, I am talking about the important things. … [Read more...]

If you can believe it (because I can't) our little lady is 3 months old today. And what changes we have seen over the past month. She has found her voice well and truly, babbling away to herself and to whoever will listen and it is quite simply the most adorable thing in the world to listen to. She … [Read more...]

These past few weeks have well and truly been a little, shall we say, tricky. And not because of the little 12 week old we have, but ALL because of the not so little (almost 3) year old. The tiredness, the sleep issues, the tantrums, another of these "phases" which just plain suck.And I know I am … [Read more...]