when you ARE that woman

This post is a bit late, I’ve missed the rush of blogs and features on SATS and school reports and the start of the holidays. It ...

Oh Maya Angelou. So beautiful and strong. It is so sad to know she's dead when her honesty and generosity with her own life and her r...

My 6 year old son is more sentimental about the past than his Great Grandmother who was born in 1920. And yet... he combines this no...

In Belfast airport this evening, on the return leg of a work trip, I was confronted with my son’s first love. Sophie The Giraffe! The...

I loathe the phrase 'quality time'. Possibly because I can't work out what it means. And I am both suspicious and indignant ...

My favourite parenting nightmare is when a simple conversation with a toddler is revealed later to have a different, often diametrically ...

Eldest child has his first wobbly tooth. This is the sort of thing which makes me feel unimaginably old, but also so very young and gree...