As a mum there are loads of reasons why we lose our identity, I’m going to give tonnes of tips for working out who you are.
Sounds harsh heh, ‘stop whining and sort it out’: but you know what I mean don’t you? There comes a time when your friends need to stop listening to you, and kick you out the door telling you to do something about it all, or at least one of the things that you are whining […]
So I’m a Mum, therefore I’m fabulous at multi-tasking right? Wrong! Does that mean that I fail and can’t put it on my CV as we are all meant to be able to do after having kids? But do I really want it anyway? Multi-tasking; doesn’t that mean doing a pile of things all at […]
I’ve made a massive shift recently and am now listening to myself a lot more. I’ve decided that talking to myself might be a sign of madness, however as it works when I recommend things to my clients, it would probably work for me too! So big in the Mummy Whisperer manifesto is for Mums […]
I’m pretty much a past master at dealing with exhaustion, having not slept through the night for 5 years. However, it’s not really as bad as it sounds and only sometimes gets as bad as I described a couple of months ago. In my situation, it isn’t a case of changing the kids, it’s more […]
Do you remember what’s it’s like to do that first independent thing purely for you after a baby, that required travel or something unusual? Or are you still at the place where your baby is too young? Well I went out yesterday, all the way into London for a Blogging conference no less. It wouldn’t […]
Ok so I know it’s easy for me to say that ‘simple things work best for kids’, when I like simple things. It’s not so easy now a days for people who like expensive trips, toys, holidays etc and they can’t afford it. It’s all very well for people to say that we shouldn’t be […]
Crying. Sometimes there are tears of joy, sometimes tears of happiness, and even inspired tears of gratitude to life. The most annoying are angry tears; I remember getting infuriated with myself when I worked in Oracle (big american IT firm), because when I was at my angriest I would cry. Then there are sad tears. […]
The worst thing about being exhausted sometimes is then not being able to get to sleep. I’ve got several tips on this, but the first is the most obvious; self-inflicted insomnia! Do you ever lie down and your heart is pumping a hundred to the dozen? It almost feels like you are having a panic […]
Do you know what, I’m a big fan of things being a fair deal, giving and receiving, and not being just about a Mum who forgets herself. Ironically, that’s one of the reasons why I’m a fan of extended breastfeeding (that is after 6 weeks or 6 months, which is often considered more ‘normal’). (Please […]
When I am really exhausted, the problem is that being a Mum I can’t stop and not do things; you know what it’s like, we just have to keep going. But how to keep going can be tricky, and how to keep going without making yourself ill or getting into such a tizwaz that you […]