I managed to snap this picture on my phone while we were at 100 Acre Woods in Hampshire during a forest walk yesterday. Few things make my heart melt like seeing how close my boys are. Yes, of course they batter each other's heads in, argue about everything and throw food at one another, but they love each other to the core. . . . Keep Reading
Are you a yummy mummy or a slummy mummy?
Lately I've been feeling a teeny bit inadequate. OK, it only lasted a few seconds but it's the thought that counts. It's because I've been reading lots of blogs and also chatting to other mums with kids of a similar age. Everyone else seems to constantly be doing craft, messy play or baking beautiful cakes, and they all seem to have children wearing nicely pressed clothes, with perfect hair. Other people's children don't watch much TV, they eat their vegetables, brush their teeth before . . . Keep Reading
Giving birth to twins by a planned semi-emergency C-section – my story
I’ve written about all of the stages of my pregnancy and birth with E, but because I started this blog when my boys were one I’ve never published their birth story before. I felt it was about time I did.I’ve said on here before that I had quite a tough time towards the end of my twin pregnancy as at around 37 weeks I was diagnosed with obstetric cholestasis and pre-eclampsia and this resulted in me having problems during my C-section. This is the story of how my wonderful boys arrived into the . . . Keep Reading
The best things about my twin pre-schoolers
The boys are now three and a half years old. I haven’t done a post about twins for a while, so I thought it was about time I told you about why life has got infinitely easier as they’ve got older. Here are the things I’m loving about them at the moment… . . . Keep Reading
Potty training twins: Success at last!
Wohoo - potty training is finally complete! (I talked about potty training phase one , phase two, potty training regression and potty training again last year). We tried T1 for a second time over half term and it was a success almost straight away. I've been hanging off blogging about it in case saying it out loud ruined everything, but I'm now confident the hard bit is over and I can start to enjoy my two big boys being out of nappies! . . . Keep Reading