It’s two weeks until the schools here in Cardiff break up for the summer holidays. Most kids I know are besides themselves with excitement at having six weeks off school. However, it can be challenging for working parents when schools are on holiday and breakfast and after-school clubs are not...
I’ve voted. I took my two eldest children to the polling station on the way to school this morning. One or more of my three kids, now aged 7, 5 and 3, have come along with me to pretty much every election since I became a mum. They know how...
Anyone who knows me in the real world will tell you I am a bit of an organiser/control freak who hates surprises. In fact, when I got wind that Cardiff Daddy was planning a surprise birthday party for me a few years ago, it left me constipated for almost a...
I have a lot of friends who are mums. Mums of babies. Mums of toddlers. Mums of pre-schoolers. Mums of school-age kids. Mums of teenagers and beyond. Mums with toddlers and teens. Mums of one child, mums of two, three, four and more. Mums with twins. Mums with twins and...
Today, as we ran towards the school gates just as they started to close, I realised I’d forgotten my children’s lunch boxes. After dropping my kids off, I had to drive back home and get their food. Yes, I’d driven to school, because the kids were fighting and refusing to...
Today was one of those days where I had so many urgent things I had to get done that I ended up plonking my toddler in front of the television for more hours than I’d like to admit to. As I said to Cardiff Daddy when he got home from...
I love my kids to bits, I truly do. They are the most wondrous little beings who fill me with more love than I ever thought was possible. But sometimes I just need time out from being a mum. I’ve been feeling it a lot the last couple of weeks....
Continuing the What’s it really like…? series on Cardiff Mummy Says, this week eight mums share their experiences of having ‘two under two’ – two children born within two years of each other. The good, the bad and everything in between. My own experience of having 21 months between my...
“Oh, you’re so good at always getting out and about with your kids.” I hear comments like this a lot. In real life, on my blog and on my Instagram feed. As you’ll know if you read Cardiff Mummy Says regularly, we do go out a lot. Some of our...
In association with Stock Signs My five-year-old scared the life out of me recently when he ran out into the middle of a road. It’s so unlike him. Yes, he’s an energetic and lively young boy, but he has a sensible head on him too. We’ve talked a lot about...
It’s been a looong and challenging week! Little Miss E, my seven year old daughter, started the week being off school with what we thought was an ear infection but turned out to be tonsillitis. Little Man O, her four-year-old brother was not happy having to go to school when she...