It is hard looking back now over a very short number of years that at the tender age of four and a half years the last delicate link to my babies has been broken. Granted when one of my children corrects me for calling them my baby and insists they are in fact a big... Continue Reading →
Mondays meals #13. Chicken, mushroom and bacon vol au vent.
If there is any meal guaranteed to require you to clean the remaining sauce with your fingers it's a good creamy vol au vent dinner. Vol au vents do not belong back in the seventies and remain one of the most popular starters at weddings here in Limerick and are a firm favourite in this... Continue Reading →
Summer downtime and realising the simple things are the best.
Lets go search for puddles to jump in. That was all the twins wanted to do recently and after spending nearly a whole hour the previous day skimming stones, well I cannot skim stones ,that skill belongs to my husband, so it was more like the three of us throwing stones into a river and... Continue Reading →
One for him, one for her and one for Mammy. Friday fashion
Well hello, it's been a little while since I have done my Friday fashion piece, life has been distracting in lots of different ways and I have not been near a clothes shop in nearly two months, nor have I been online much truth be told. However with the return to pre-school fast approaching I... Continue Reading →
That’s not my life, Period!
I want to be that girl on the telly, you know the one with the bicycle. You know the one who for some reason on her period wants to wear her white short shorts to go with her belly top.The tiny tops that show off her non bloated stomach as she goes go for a... Continue Reading →
Eeeekkk I might get a day out, with your help!
Eeeekk, I am in the running in the best parenting blog category in the Boots maternity and infant awards 2018! It is a public vote and whilst I am cringing at the thoughts of asking for some votes from you all , I am hiding behind my fingers whilst doing so. I am... Continue Reading →
Breastfeeding twins, our story.
As national breastfeeding week comes to a close I wanted to share our own breastfeeding story, something I haven't shared before. Being over fours years out now from the throes of being a new twin mother I have very fond memories of when it was just the three of us, the twins head to head... Continue Reading →
Five fitness and nutrition tips for women pre and post pregnancy, from the Postnatal coach.
Following on from my extremely informative interview with Sara from the Postnatal coach and given she had so much helpful advice throughout our chat ,I wanted to separate out her advice for women pre and post pregnancy and share her advice for anyone who didn't catch our first chat which you can read here. Have... Continue Reading →
The big bed move
Ask any parent out there what they fear the most and I bet sleep features in there somewhere. We all get that when we become parents that little sleep is to be expected. Some of us unfortunately experience sleep deprivation on a totally different scale to others, all depending on how our little angels sleep... Continue Reading →