Butterflies & pretty hearts. That’s what I decided we needed this week, to make us feel really at home in our new house. As we are only renting, we don’t want to go overboard doing too much decorating (‘loud’ wallpaper & plastic chandeliers in the lounge aside – they must be obliterated soon) but I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nursery’
Butterflies & pretty hearts
Posted in Family life, tagged butterfly curtains, children's bedrooms, decor, Next, nursery on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lilly’s best friend
Posted in 3-4 years old, tagged 3 years old, best friend, children, friendship, nursery on August 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It has been an exciting weekend for Lilly because yesterday we made arrangements to spend the afternoon with her absolute bestest friend in the whole world, Daniel. Daniel is her friend from nursery. He is a month younger than her and they first met at baby massage classes when they were a few months old. [...]
Isla at 10 months old
Posted in Newborn to 12 months, tagged 10 months old, baby, crawling, development, nursery, sisters, sleeping, weaning on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Isla is now 10 months old – it seems impossible that my littlest baby is coming up to her first birthday so fast! She is now much more mobile, she’s crawling and practicing doing a “bridge” with her feet and hands on the floor and her bottom sticking up in the air! She isn’t fully [...]
Sorry for going quiet…
Posted in Family life, Newborn to 12 months, Work, tagged nursery, teething, Weight Watchers on February 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
… things have been very busy lately! I’ve been rather neglecting this blog, and i’ve even not had the time to be on twitter as much as usual! Yep, life is rather getting in the way at the moment I’m back completely in the swing of things at work, and on the two afternoons I [...]
A week of changes
Posted in Family life, Newborn to 12 months, Work, tagged 28 weeks old, baby, childcare, first tooth, maternity leave, nursery, return to work, six month old, sleeping, teething, waking early on January 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This week was my first week back at work after maternity leave. It was been a much planned for and anxiously anticipated week. It was also the week when Isla would start nursery properly, and Tony would take charge of the children in the mornings, having to get them to nursery by himself on two of those [...]
Last days of maternity leave…
Posted in Family life, Newborn to 12 months, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work, tagged childcare, flexible working, job, maternity leave, nursery, part time, return to work, six month old, Work, work life balance, working mum on January 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Well, that’s it then. My maternity leave has finished. On Monday morning I will be rejoining the world of work. Yikes! The last six months have flown. Actually, it’s been more than that, as I finished at 35 weeks and Isla was 12 days overdue. Next week our new arrangements begin. I will be working five days a [...]
The potty training diaries
Posted in 2-3 years, Family life, Uncategorized, tagged nappies, new sibling, nursery, potty training, toilet training, two and a half years old on July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ok, call us crazy, but when Isla was one week old we decided the time had come to potty train Lilly! We had been putting it off because of the arrival of the new baby, and not wanting to do it at a time when she might be unsettled. But Lilly has coped so well [...]
22 weeks pregnant
Posted in Being pregnant, Family life, Second trimester, tagged 20 week scan, 22 weeks pregnant, achey, anomaly scan, baby kicking, booking, bowels, c-section, childcare, finances, heartbeat, ICU, maternity hospital, maternity leave, midwife, nursery, One Born Every Minute, predicting baby is a girl, re-scan, return to work, size of baby, sonographer, Southampton, tape measure, tender breasts, TV, unable to scan baby's stomach on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, here we are… 22 weeks pregnant… time is really rushing by! We had our re-scan on Thursday after the first 20 week scan failed to pick up the baby’s stomach. I’m pleased to say, this time, everything was absolutely fine and baby had a nice full tummy which enabled the sonographer to measure everything [...]
10 weeks, three days pregnant
Posted in Being pregnant, First trimester, Work, tagged 10 weeks pregnant, 12 week scan, anxious, bedtime, belly, better birth, boobs, books, breasts, bump, childcare, consultant, dreams, employment, evenings, fading, hours, jeans, job, labour, lonely, maternity clothes, maternity leave, morning sickness, nausea, nervous, Next, nursery, pregnancy, pregnant belly, redundancy, routine, shift, style, tender, time, unhappy, week, Work on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we’ve reached double figures! I am still feeling a bit “car sick” every day. It last all day and fades in the evening time. I think it might be slightly less than a week ago, so hopefully it’s starting to go away as all the books promise. My boobs are now very tender for [...]



