Browsing Tag

mummy

  • Competitive Fancy Dress Syndrome: are you at risk?

    Tweet My twitter timeline is currently full of mums worrying about what their kids are going to wear for World Book Day, or making fancy dress outfits for various events, or trying to find…

    March 2, 2014
  • The One where I go on Mum Strike

    Tweet I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to domestic stuff – not even my best friends could call me fastidious. But I do like things to be clean and fairly tidy. Unfortunately, like many…

    August 19, 2013
  • Sorry, but 54 is far too old to have a baby

    Tweet Let me start by saying I don’t agree with condemning other women for the choices they make, whether it’s to do with how we feed, educate or look after our children – as…

    December 2, 2012
  • Tell them about the honey, mummy

    Tweet I love this photo of No 1 Son, taken when he was 18 months old, because he’s in his favourite place – Waiting For Mummy To Make Him His Breakfast – and he…

    September 19, 2012
  • Please stop calling it mummy porn

    Tweet I was dismayed to learn that the phrase ‘mummy porn’ has now entered the Collins online dictionary. Not because I’m a prude, but because I loathe the whole concept of ‘mummy porn.’ It…

    September 13, 2012
  • A blog post for my son

    Tweet I can still remember the expression on your face when you woke up on Christmas morning and saw your first Big Boy Bicycle in the sitting room. You clasped your little hands together…

    August 15, 2012
  • My precious

    Tweet I think that one of the reasons I’m so protective of No 1 Son, one of the reasons I’ve always wanted to wrap him in cotton wool, is because he was quite delicate…

    August 1, 2012
  • I refuse to play the Competitive Mum game

    Tweet A few weeks ago I bumped into the mum of one of No 1 Son’s friends (we’ll call him Jimmy). ‘How is the revision going?’ she asked me. ‘I’m not sure he’s doing…

    June 29, 2012
  • These hands stole my heart

    Tweet One of my favourite memories of No 1 Son being born – apart from the moment when he was placed briefly on my stomach, a screaming ball of fury – is seeing him…

    June 27, 2012
  • A portrait of me by my son, aged five

    Tweet I was doing some tidying up in the spare room yesterday and I found this picture which my son drew of me at primary school. His teacher had all the pictures laminated so…

    May 10, 2012