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musings, attempts at advice, stories, inspiration, some deep thoughts and maybe even humour

Beating the need to stay up past your bedtime to get your 'me time'

Those precious hours between baby bedtime and mama bedtime fly by, don't they? So how DO you get your me-time in before you're exhausted?

Take five.... for relaxation

A 5 minute relaxation for all the intention-rich time-poor ones!

How the love grows with a second baby

I looked at my toddler, pottering about our apartment and I wondered.How could I ever love another one this much?

We don't talk about the loneliness of motherhood

Maybe if they served alcohol at mum and baby pilates classes I’d have made more mama friends when on maternity leave?

Baby's first birthday is your birthday too mama...

When a baby is born a mother is born too, so why not celebrate the birthing day as well as the baby's first birthday?

A parent and toddler group might save your sanity

Is there a parent and toddler group group near you? When I moved house, a local group became an unexpected highlight in my calendar!

Why I don't keep a gratitude journal

For many years I railed against the idea of gratitude journals and the like. Until I found a way to make it work for me.

I don't remember my child's first word

Do you remember what your little one's first word was? Somebody asked me and I drew a blank. Two years of broken sleep will do that.

10 tips on parenting alone while your partner's away

Parenting alone while my husband was away for work, I discovered a few tips to make it through with my sanity intact!

Not perfect mama? That makes you perfectly human.

There are lots of images of 'perfect' mothers out there, but the reality is that we are all human and inherently not perfect!

A place called home

I stood at the ATM on Capel Street as the afternoon city sailed around me and my old life was so close I could have reached out my hand...

The Everyday Adventure

We were talking about the great things that have happened in our lifetimes; and I said, “Oh, I suppose the moon landing was the greatest...

10 things that pass for ‘me time’ when you have tiny humans

After kids, "me-time" takes on a new meaning. Here are 10 things that probabably didn't register as me time before, but definitely do now.

A homebirth in Dublin

A Friday evening above the rooftops of the North Inner City. My son is being born. Rushing into the world, surprising us all with his haste