Can you make a little girl any happier than giving her a PINK carseat?? We were very kindly gifted an Infasecure Evolve Caprice car seat a couple of weeks ago from Infasecure, and it has been AWESOME. Having had to deal with kids and car seats every single day for the past eight years, […] Read more…
School readiness can be a really controversial topic these days, especially here in NSW where there is no set age for your child to start school. I have a fabulous guest post from Neva Poole sharing her thoughts on the topic. Neva is a fellow Northern Beaches mum of four-year-old Eden and one-year-old Archer. Alongside […] Read more…
The lovely Jennifer Birch, who is a writer and strong advocate for childhood literacy contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if she could write a guest post for my blog. I happily obliged. Take it away Jenni…….. More than just a pastime, the importance of reading to your child is that it has more […] Read more…
After my first child was born I was very unexpectedly struck down with Post Natal Depression. I know ‘struck down’ sounds a bit dramatic, but that’s how I felt. I went from a perfectly normal pregnancy where I was counting the minutes until I’d meet my little boy, to almost not being able to be […] Read more…
Collaroy Beach playground has got to be my all time favourite on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. I’m actually not the biggest fan of playgrounds. After nearly 8 years of pushing kids on swings, trying my best to catch every ‘watch this Mum’ moment, dealing with countless meltdowns and refereeing a few kids ‘scraps’, I am somewhat over them!! […] Read more…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin “NO!”, “NOOOOOOOOO!!!”, “Me no like it!!”, “It’s MINE!!” and “I want DADDDYYYYYY!!” are just a few of my tiny terrorist’s favourite phrases at the moment. In fact she’s almost had the whole house under lockdown a few times in recent weeks. Sometimes it’s rather amusing and other times (or most […] Read more…
This morning I read about an incident on a Facebook parenting forum about a mum who was extremely upset because her little girl (who looked about age 3) had been hurt by some bigger kids in a local playground. I have no idea what actually happened as I wasn’t there, but her post sparked a […] Read more…
This is quite an ambiguous title because I actually have no idea what the answer is!! I’ve been thinking a lot about motherhood recently and in particular what kind of mother I am?? Am I just a mother or is there more to it (and me) than that?? After diving head first into a blogging […] Read more…
This post written by me first appeared on The Parenting Files. So what did you think? It’s amazing how a short little video clip on the ‘simple’ mobile phone can conjure up so many emotions. I have to openly admit that my phone has definitely become an extension of the right arm and I found […] Read more…
So how many of you have installed the new IOS 7 on to your iphone or ipad?? Do you love it or hate it? Like it??? I really wasn’t sure about upgrading but Mr D insisted that I do it!! He gets so frustrated with me because I HATE learning anything new when it comes […] Read more…