Did you have the Easter Bunny when you were a child? We didn't. We always got an Easter egg each, and I think (though I may be wrong) they were left at the end of the bed, but they were always from our parents. The first time I heard that the Easter Bunny was a thing ...
Long, long ago, when I had two-under-two, I wondered if my girls would ever be friends. At twenty months, my eldest was little more than a baby herself when her small sister was born, and she was understandably confused. I remember a work colleague who'd had a second child around the same time talking about ...
Something I keep forgetting is that it takes my kids a little bit of time to adjust on any given occasion - holidays, new places, days out. They need a few minutes or a few hours to work out that expectations and reality aren't exactly the same - and it can go either way; sometimes ...
I'm a bit nosy, and have been enjoying the "week in dinners" series on Bumbles of Rice lovely food and parenting blog. This week it's payback time - she's asked the rest of us to confess our own "week in dinners", warts and all (that's not actually a nice image) I'm going to cheat. Our childminder ...
It's Easter Bunny time again. Or not, as the case may be. I've asked around, as I do every year, confused mammy that I am: Does the Easter Bunny come to your house? And the answers, though varied, usually have a similar theme: We didn't have it when we were kids but my kids seem to have heard about it ...
So it's the end of the Easter holidays and parents all over Ireland are breathing a sigh of relief - some because they are at home with their children all year round and it's a little more difficult to keep everyone entertained during school holidays, and some because they're at work and find it a challenge to arrange childcare ...
It's Good Friday, and I haven't thought about work once today - I love that. We took the kids to Powerscourt House and Gardens - well OK, the House followed by an "adventure" exploring the trees and grass verges on the way back to the car, via the garden centre. To be fair, we were willing ...