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Ch-ch-changes
At the grand old age of three years, nine and a half months The Toddler has had his first ever haircut, yes.... his beautiful golden mane is gone. There was must rejoicing from The Husband and The...
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Tick Tock
According to my dates I'm 11+2 today, according to the wheel of conformity I'm 11+6. Either way I'm ever nearing the end of the first trimester. Friday is my first scan.I'm not a very good anything...
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Food snobbery
This parenthood malarkey is terribly competitive. You're judged on what they wear, when they do things, how you feed them and more often than not lately, on what they eat. In the current economic...
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Review: Step2 Real Projects Workshop
We were recently sent, by the lovely people at Activity Toys Direct, the Step2 Real Projects Workshop to review as part of their Play Ambassador programme that we're lucky enough to be a part of.This...
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The Womb Dweller
It doesn't matter how many children you have, each pregnancy is just as terrifying and exciting as the next and likewise that first scan.Finally last week, came the time for our first scan of our final...
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Things your parents never bought you
Do you remember when you was a child those things that you nagged and begged for yet never got? You asked at Christmas and Birthdays and everybody else had them, except you. Do you remember how mad...
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I want to take a moment to briefly talk about Cancer.Cancer stole my granddad from me when I was a child. Cancer tried to take my Mum. Cancer is currently brutalising my Godfather and one of his...
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MADS
Well somebody loves me, whoever you are, have a snog from me. What a delightful surprise to wake up this morning to find I've been nominated for the MAD Blog Awards 2014 under the frightfully scary...
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The Preschooler: 'Am I your best friend?'Thing Two: 'I keep telling you. I don't have a best friend' [arms crossed over her chest. Glowering]The Preschooler: 'Well, do you still like me?' [wide eyed...
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The epic toys your parents bought you
So following on from The Things My Parents Never Bought Me post, as promised, I feel it's only fair that I follow it up with some of the things they did buy me, you know, just to prove they weren't...
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Let's go outside
It's been a dreadful half term full of grey gloom and rain. No transport, no money and ghastly weather has meant for a tiring existence with all three of The Spawn tearing chunks from each other in...
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Snow fun .
It's not often we do 'Messy Play' for many reasons, most of which include that although I'm an untidy scruffy sod, I don't like actual 'mess' and then there's the fact the fact that usually I spend...
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The Benefit Trap
[Apologies in advance if this particular post appears somewhat disjointed, it's a rant that was desperate to escape my head yet was hastily written whilst refereeing three disgruntled and rather manic...
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Naan Bread Pizza
I've found my new favourate quick lunch fix, inspired by a post from the lovely Nigella's Facebook.Home made pizza can be absolutely divine however, it can also be time consuming, messy and you need to...
View Article14+3
I should be writing more about our surprise final pregnancy, I should. I want to. However, I have nothing to write, how terribly awful does that sound? It's that point in pregnancy where you have...
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Books from your childhood
My name's Mama Undone and I'm a bookophile. I always have been. As a child I was allowed to access the adult library early because I'd read through the children's section. Often The Mother would...
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Just a ramble.
My hair is beginning to forget what a brush looks like and I have toothpaste on my face. The toothpaste is marginally more attractive than the crater it's assassinating. My thighs have doubled more...
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Thing One's Birth Story (2004)
The thing about being pregnant is it makes you think about, well, pregnancy. Who knew? Inevitably that then makes you think of giving birth which if you've done before will predictably make you go...
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Thing Two's Birth Story (2006)
In ShortThing Two was born on Thursday 7th September at 23:30 weighing 8lb 15oz after 3 pushes and a 4.5 hour labour start to finish.The Long StoryIn the weeks leading up to the birth I was a familiar...
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The Preschooler's Birth Story (2010) - [repost]
Ah i believe I promised you all an actual update, did I not? Well here you are my lovelies.As you have probably correctly guessed we are now a family of five. Pregnancy was unfortunately the hardest...
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