Beauty Blogger for a Day: Barefaced Beauty

Office Mum - make-up

While beauty bloggers are sent highlighters and eye-shadows and lipsticks to review, parent bloggers are asked if they'd like to take a look at cleaning products. OK, not always, I'm exaggerating, but still. Wouldn't it be great to be sent free beauty products? And to try them, and to write about them? Well lovely Sinead at ...

5 things I haven’t learned at all about holidaying with kids

Office Mum: photo at pool

Every year, bright-eyed and innocent, I look forward to going away on holidays - to reading and relaxing and resting, and to getting lots of sleep and sun. And every year, I am yet again taken by surprise to find that the holiday isn’t quite the chilled out, easygoing, restful experience I expected. Here’s what ...

Ten things I’ve learned about parenting

Office mum photo of kids dancing

As part of lovely Learner Mama's linky, I've put together ten random things I've learned about parenting. They apply to me; they may not apply to everyone. But I wish my pre-mother self had known some of them. Or maybe that would take the fun out of it... 1. Nothing you can buy or do will ...