If you’ve had a baby in the last eight or so years, chances are that after the initial phone calls and texts to your nearest and dearest, you announced the news to your wider circle of friends and contacts via social media. You were probably inundated with beautiful messages of...
I was so touched with the beautiful responses I got to last week’s post, 5 things I know as a mummy of boys. A lot of mums, dads and grandparents told me the little men in their lives are multi-dimensional characters who might like trains, superheroes and kicking around a...
I’ve read a few articles over the years detailing life as a parent of boys. The lists usually include references to dinosaurs, trucks, superheroes, smelly socks, farting and the like. I always find myself chuckling and nodding along because, yes, that is my life. But – and this is a...
I was scrolling through my blog home page last night and suddenly had a panic. All the stories of jumping around in mud, family day trips, slowing down and embracing toddler pace, home-cooked healthy meals and kale smoothies. “Argh,” I thought to myself. “I am NOT presenting a real picture...
It takes me forever to get anywhere with Toddler Boy I, my 21-month-old third child, these days. We have entered the realms of toddler pace – a world I remember well from his big brother and sister, but with which I am slowly becoming reacquainted now that my youngest child...
The Jumperoo was the first thing to go. Via Gumtree. I don’t think I will ever forget its theme tune, or the excitement on all three of my children’s faces as they jumped around in it. But it’s been a while since any of them fitted in it and it’s...
This is a photo of a little boy who wanted to help load the washing machine with his daddy’s dirty shirts. It’s a quick and blurry snapshot I took to send to his daddy because I know how much he misses his children when he is at work. And even...
I’ve been chatting to my children about new year’s resolutions today and talking about how lots of grown ups make changes at the start of a new year of things they would like to do differently or areas of their life they’d like to improve. I’m not sure if they’ve...
Have you been to your child’s nativity or Christmas show in the last couple of weeks? I’ve had four to go to this week – my daughter’s school nativity, my eldest son’s pre-school nativity, as well as two shows at the cylch meithrin (Welsh playgroup) he attends. They’ve all been...
Pantomime is such a curious British tradition. Men dressed as women; booing and hissing; shouts of ‘oh, no it isn’t’ and ‘oh, yes it is’; innuendo-laden jokes that go well over the children’s heads but leave the adults crying with laughter. I was trying to explain the concept of panto...
We have a saying in our house that you can never too much fresh air, books or Lego. Regular readers of Cardiff Mummy Says will know that I’m obsessed with children’s books and you’ll also have seen reports of our days out in and around Cardiff whatever the weather. But,...