Nursery’s out for the summer – aka it’s shut for a week – so we’re currently staying down at my parent’s house in Bournemouth on a mini-break. They live by the sea so it always feels like being on holiday, and the weather has been very undecided, so it definitely feels like your typical British seaside…
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Don’t leave me this way – on separation anxiety, again
Read moreSeparation anxiety has arrived in our house. Florence, who is just starting to explore the world around her, now wails like it’s ending if she can’t see me or isn’t being held. Oh baby, it seems like parting is unsweet sorrow.
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(Bed)room for two
Read moreSiblings sharing bedrooms…does it work? Is it a lovely and cosy vision of harmony, or a complete logistical nightmare? I ask because this is our future plan, but we’re staying my parent’s house this week and I’m still recovering from this evening’s attempts to get both girls to go to sleep in one room. They were…
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Walk the baby walk with Hippychick
Read moreMoving on to baby walkers…how are we at the stage where we’re using one of those again already? In the past few weeks Florence seems to be accelerating at lightning speed and is now standing, climbing and cruising. Brilliant, but we’ve had to move everything.
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Late to the party
Read moreThis summer, about three hundred years after everyone else, I finally bought myself some Saltwater sandals (they’re the ones that look like toddler shoes that everyone’s been raving about for ages). And guess what? They’re brilliant, who’d have thought? I don’t know why it took so long – I’ve had them in my virtual shopping…
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Pink Lining Change Bag Review: Winning at Twinning
Read morePink Lining Change Bag Review – Bags For Mums AND Babies Looking for a new baby change bag and thinking of trying the Pink Lining change bag? If so, do you know they make baby change bags for parents – and also for children? Twinning Is Winning Did you know twinning – deliberately dressing the…
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New shoes and Magic Steps
Read moreWhen I was younger I really, really, wanted – more than anything in the world, at the time – a pair of Magic Steps shoes from Clarks. They were the ones with the magical key on the soles. Clearly I was a huge sucker for the power of advertising as I can still picture the TV…