I’ll be honest. Having passed the 30 mark, got married and had kids, I sort of assumed I’d be automatically enrolled into the Grown-Up Club. And that grown-up type things (think neatly-folded piles of ironing and an alphabetically-organised DVD collection) would just sort of, well, happen. Unfortunately that didn’t turn out to be the case. […]
Family: 13 Things That Will Happen When You Return To Work After Maternity Leave
{Pssst – fancy voting for a newbie in the MADs and BiBs? I’d love you forever! Badges on the right 🙂 >} Going back to work after being on maternity leave for a while? Here are 13 things you can pretty much count on… 1. One or more of your children will get ill. Really […]
Family: Shhhhh… I did the Facebook book exchange and I’m not sorry
I’m just going to come out and say it. I did the ’36 book exchange’ thing on Facebook. I know it’s bad. I know I should be ashamed of myself. I know I am basically a moron and I have done The Worst Thing Ever. But shall I tell you what else I know? We […]
Travel: our day at Mead Open Farm, Leighton Buzzard
We’re officially on staycation. The husband has 2 weeks of annual leave, and I have 2 weeks left on maternity leave. So we’ve got 14 days to pack in as many family-friendly things to do as possible before we’re both back at work and reality kicks in. We had our main summer holiday in June […]