I had a tough day at the office today, except I wasn’t in the office, I was at home with the kids (and it wasn’t today either). There was a lot of whinging and whining. The whining woke the small girl 30 minutes into her nap so she was managing…
Today started like an ordinary Monday. I was in a grump, there was work, meetings, errands at lunchtime and general busy-ness. You all remember that I wrote all about how I felt on returning to work from maternity leave? How it was bittersweet, and how it just all felt like…
Bumbles of Rice turned two on Monday. I’d planned to write a lovely blogpost (lies, I realised at lunchtime on the day) but I’d a deadline to reach to get my post finished before The Busy Mama’s linky closed, so this had to wait til now. Two whole years.…
Tomorrow at midday our school year comes to an end. For our little family it’s been our first real school year, as Ciarán only started “big school” in September. This day last year we went to his playschool graduation, the small girl only three weeks old, and we wondered how…
I laugh and then groan when I see the supermarket brochures and newspaper features about “Summer Eating”. I mean, we eat all year round don’t we? After my initial chuckle my mind wanders to think about what summer eating is to me, what dishes I suddenly hanker after as soon…
Twelve months ago today our bumble of pink entered the world. Miss Laoise, Leeshy Lou, Elle, Lou-Lee, Leeshkins, Lou-Doo, Missy Lou Lou, Monkey Girl, Little Miss Divil, she answers to them all, or rather giggles and ignores, then crawls away at breakneck speed waiting for us to catch up, turning…
If you’ve been on social media at all today you’ll have noticed a bit of a furore around an interview with Kirstie Allsopp, presenter of Location, Location, Location. She’s not one for keeping quiet on issues that bother her and regularly takes to Twitter to protest about whatever’s on her…
Mother’s Day means a different thing to me these days than it did when I wasn’t a mother myself. Back in the 1980’s when I was growing up, as the eldest of six children (although the youngest 2 are ’90s kids) I took it upon myself to organise the Mother’s…
The “no makeup selfies” trend which has raised much needed funds for cancer charities across Ireland and the UK this week has social media in the spotlight again. Women posted self portraits of their makeup free faces and donated to charity, then nominated other friends to do the same. The…
Our small girl has just turned nine months old, three whole quarters of a year. At nine months, she’s now lived in the real world for as long as I carried her. We can’t remember a time before she arrived, before the pink descended and colonised, before the talks of…
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