It's a Mummy's Life - Perfect parents are very dull

Thank you Kelloggs Nutri-Grain – you understand my life

October 19, 2018 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

s Breaking my blog silence for this one. I know it's a PR story but fair play to the PR agency because any normal mum (without 24 hour support and on tap help) will feel bloody knackered by the time they get to work and no one but no one will really give a shit about that apart from another mum maybe. There's a sense of drowning, of never getting it right, of failing in every aspect of your life. Then you get home and the house needs tidying and cleaning and the dinner needs cooking … [Continue reading]

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Life and stuff like that..

November 21, 2017 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

I saw a post on Facebook from Susanna Scott of A Modern Mother and Britmums fame recently. She had posted a link to the first British Mummy Bloggers carnival in 2010. One of my posts was in it, 20:20 Hindsight which was nice. So I read it of course, a bit of memory laning for a Sunday afternoon. Before long I was immersed in my life from the early days of motherhood. I'll say this, I was a very prolific blogger back then. How did I find the time? Goodness I can barely keep on top of my … [Continue reading]

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9 Things to Do With The Kids at Half Term

May 18, 2017 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

I seem to spend a lot of time lately searching 'things to do with kids'. I think this is because they are at the age where they want to get out and do interesting stuff, the same old parks and places are becoming boring (their words not mine, I … [Continue reading]

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I am Wonderwoman

January 30, 2017 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

I woke up this morning feeling less than wonderful. Sore throat, headache, felt like cement had been poured into my ear overnight. Not hungover I might add, just bone-achingly tired for a variety of reasons. So it was with delight that on entering … [Continue reading]

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Yoga, Green Tea and Me

December 13, 2016 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

Everything I do in my life I tend to go at with total and complete enthusiasm. For about a month or two. Sometimes longer but in the words of Joan Armatrading - the passion fades. So it is rather refreshing that the slightly strange and unintended … [Continue reading]

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Restore to Factory Settings

June 18, 2016 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

When our devices go wrong we normally have a moment's panic, followed by anger, exasperation and finally resignation; of course this would happen wouldn't it because everything that can go wrong does go wrong? So we rant and rave a bit, spend a few … [Continue reading]

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Mindfulness

May 25, 2016 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

First off I'm delighted that I managed to figure out how to access this blog again. I thought it was lost and gone forever and that the world would be left without any more of my hugely talented writing. But NO the universe was looking on at me and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: alternative health, conversations with the girls, mummy life, Parenting Tagged With: mindfulness, yoga

All hail Kale

February 11, 2016 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

Do you know it's so rare that I write here that I cross my fingers each time that my computer will remember the password. It should be a simple thing to reset it but it's not because I set this up in 2009 and many email addresses and wordpress sites … [Continue reading]

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Black Dogs and Good Friends

November 28, 2015 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

They really are 6 and 8 years old now. I am actually a proper mother, not a woman flailing around crazily thinking what on earth happened to MY LIFE. Truth is I can't remember really being me before the girls. It's not a long time but it's a … [Continue reading]

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The Tilly Way of Life

July 17, 2015 By itsamummyslife Leave a Comment

Tilly was recently 6, this is a big milestone since now she has declared that I cannot decide her ‘way of life’ any longer. I found this out thus: “Tilly time to get in the bath please.” “Mummy you can’t tell me what to do, you … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: conversations with the girls, Parenting Tagged With: Tilly