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Why Get Britain Fertile Misjudges Women

May 21, 2013 By itsamummyslife 3 Comments

Kate Garraway fronts the deeply patronising fertility campaign

I was idly flicking through the news on my iphone this morning and I was peturbed and shocked by an article about the 'Get Britain Fertile' campaign for which Kate Garraway is the celebrity ambassador. Quite aside from the name that is just wrong on so many levels (what about those Britons that can't get fertile?), it's wide of the mark in many, many ways. The aim of the campaign is to get women in their 20's to think twice before delaying having a family. Because let's face it there is … [Continue reading]

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How Hard Can It Be?

May 18, 2013 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

I try to live my life by this fundamental truth; how hard can it be? It tends to work for most things. 1. Putting up a shelf? How hard can it be to operate a drill and stick some screws in? Many, many people can do it so it can't be difficult can it? No it's not. Although the shelf may not be straight and the plaster may chip off because I can never be arsed to use raw plugs, but the shelf is up. Mission accomplished. 2. Putting up a curtain rail? Ok a bit harder because it requires … [Continue reading]

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The Black Out Blinds Cometh

May 11, 2013 By itsamummyslife 6 Comments

I love this book, it's a bedtime favourite

So after what felt like months of 5.30 am wake ups from our youngest daughter, I decided to get black out blinds for the landing window. This is because said daughter refuses to have her door closed, she shakes in fear if she thinks I'm going to … [Continue reading]

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It’s a bit tricky right now…

May 10, 2013 By itsamummyslife 2 Comments

It's just so heartbreaking sometimes isn't it? It's all been a bit challenging lately. It would feel wrong to go into details, but suffice it to say my eldest daughter is causing me a lot of anxiety. Behaviour that I simply don't understand is … [Continue reading]

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Being Grateful

May 4, 2013 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

So my last post was all about writing less when we're happy and here I am now about to write about what a lovely, gorgeous day I had. Life just does that sometimes doesn't it? It's contradicts everything you believe in one sunny, happy day. I was … [Continue reading]

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Do You Write Less When You’re Happy?

May 2, 2013 By itsamummyslife 3 Comments

I used to write another blog that I ran alongside this one; it was all my introspective, mostly miserable soliloquies on life, post natal depression, being motherless and failure to cope as a parent. Cheery stuff I can tell you. But deeply, achingly, … [Continue reading]

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Spa Breaks and Rain Storms

April 27, 2013 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

Yesterday evening after putting the kids to bed I got in the car and was racing off (carefully within the speed limit of course) to meet some very good friends for dinner. At a hotel. With a spa. And a comfy bed with my name on it. The grown up … [Continue reading]

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Lean In? I’d rather Lie Down

April 24, 2013 By itsamummyslife 4 Comments

Is is really Wednesday evening already? I was at a two day management conference on Monday and Tuesday and I feel as if I was swallowed up in a parallel universe and time stood still. It was a good thing to do and we needed to do it as a team but my … [Continue reading]

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Gardening and Hama Beads: Spring’s arrived

April 20, 2013 By itsamummyslife 1 Comment

So we've had a few nice sunny days and that means one thing. The garden. Yep the local garden centres are considerably better off today and there could be a national shortage of terracotta and indeed any pink plants, since the girls were putting an … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: conversations with the girls, gardening, mummy life

Growing Up

April 17, 2013 By itsamummyslife 8 Comments

I know all parents say it, you hear it all the time and before you had children you would think it was obvious and why did everyone make such a big deal of it. It's the observation that your children are growing up so fast. Because they are. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: children development, Parenting Tagged With: growing up, memories