Back when I had two-under-two, I found that going anywhere further than the local shop was a challenge. Actually, even going to the local shop was a challenge. So when the smallest was nine weeks old, and the biggest was a whopping 23 months old, we were understandably nervous setting off on our very first ...
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Got hay fever? Don’t suffer in silence
When I was in my mid-twenties, I figured I had finally become a grown-up. I had a proper job with a proper swivel-y chair, a new boyfriend (now husband) and very grown-up things like health insurance and more than one handbag. So when my eyes started to itch one spring, I did what any sensible grown-up ...
Into The West – Review of The Connacht Hotel & What to do With One Day in Galway
Eight years ago, I went along to the Saturday Night Show in RTÉ, and came away with a one-for-everybody-in-the-audience night in a hotel. So we duly booked our night, and headed off to Clane with our then seven-month-old. We weren't quite sure how staying in hotels with babies worked, but everyone else seemed to do ...
Santa Science at Imaginosity with Three Very Different Kids
I have three kids. Sometimes they're all very similar - like when all of them cry at once because I turn off the TV or when they all beg for a second advent calendar sweet. And sometimes they're all quite different. On Sunday, at a Santa Science Lab in Imaginosity, I had the different kids. The first was Enthusiastic ...
Santa Visit Review – Airfield Estate Christmas Experience
Dusk. A mild November evening, with a huge purple sky above, and twinkly lights visible in the distance. They ran, one following the other, through the falling darkness. They'd just seen real reindeer, and now they wanted to take a peek into Santa's bedroom. Rushing, single-minded, single-file. We had arrived at the Airfield Estate Christmas Experience ...
Oh My Welly – Review and Giveaway!
Snap Happy – Foto Store Review and Giveaway
An Orla Kiely bin no less!
Bright Star Kids – Personalised Labels and Backpack Review
I'm in super-organisational-mode. It's day three of summer holidays, and I've already washed the school uniforms. This is far better than Easter, when I found them at the bottom of the laundry basket the night before the kids were due back to school. I've washed lunch boxes, and I fully intend to put them in the cupboard ...