No, I’m not rich, and I do work, just possibly not the same way you do. Spurred on by my good friend Emma Reed, who recently wrote a piece about how she can afford to be at home, I thought I’d add mine too. Not […]
If you’re trying to cook on a budget and are looking for cheap, quick and easy meals to feed the family, that are under £1 a head, then this is for you. Before the kids, it never even crossed my mind to eat on a […]
Ok, so we all know I’m a bit of a tight ass, but throwing food away and how much we spend a week on food really gets to me, and I wanted to prove to myself mainly, that I could feed a growing family on […]
With soaring line rental costs and out of contract pricing, many of us are being hit hard with soaring broadband bills. Research has found that when our contract ends, 15 million of us in the UK are unintentionally paying an average of £113 a year […]
If your family is anything like mine, then by dinner time, the family have turned into a crazed pack of wolves. From schools out until bedtime, life is a mad dash between running everyone to their clubs, homework, and appointments. While there’s nothing I can […]
We all know how important it is to save money for a ‘rainy day’, but it’s equally important to put aside some money to allow us to get away (albeit temporarily) from those rainy days. The perfect holiday doesn’t come cheap though. Deciding on your […]
I’d like to make this clear now, I don’t work for or ever have worked for any multi-level marketing (MLM) companies nor do I plan to. I can’t sell anything for a start, and don’t wear much makeup, buy perfume or books for that matter. […]
It’s September and that can only mean one thing, the dreaded packed lunch. I really want my eldest to try the school meals this year, not only because it means I don’t have to worry about giving her a packed lunch (I’m not very organised) […]
With the new year fast approaching, and Christmas on our doorstep now is a great time to try and get all your finances in order. With the kids just starting school, I can’t manage everything in my head like I normally do, so I’ve been […]
It’s September and for most the first day of the new term. We have been thinking a lot about school this year as one of us has a daughter who is starting school and the other has one starting next year. Being a teacher, learning […]
I love cooking healthy meals, but just don’t have the time while working, so I’m making it my September resolution (it’s the start of a new term, so it totally counts) to try really hard to cook, and not turn to chicken nuggets and chips […]
The sun may still be shining, but Christmas is closer than you think! It’s never too late to start saving for the festive period; from just saving pennies to buying presents in advance. Here are our top 7 tips to have you spread the cost […]
After the excitement of going on maternity leave at the beginning of September and the joy of having my second daughter at the end of September last year, my maternity leave is now coming to an end. It’s been 12 months of being mummy 24/7 […]
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Sleep – the holy grail of all new parents! Unless you are that one in a million, your little one will be keeping you up at some point. It might be from the moment they are born, from the 4 month regression or maybe from a randomly chosen night. Every baby is different and will start not sleeping at different times. There are also different types of not sleeping. Do they just not go to sleep? Do they wake up and not go back to sleep? Or, if you are really lucky, your little one might do both! We have a multitude of strategies to get our little ones to sleep, but personally, I think one trumps all others. A bedtime routine!
Routines seem to split the parenting population. Some passionately believe that a baby can’t be put into a routine and that they should be allowed to do what they need to, when they need to. Others rigidly hold on to a routine as the only bit of control they have! Personally I am in the latter camp for two main reasons. I like to know what is happening. I work much better and am much calmer when I know what is happening next. But more importantly so do babies.
