Contact - Confessions of a Slummy Mummy

Contact

Instagram Feed

If you believe in fairies clap your hands 👏🏼

If you believe in fairies clap your hands 👏🏼
.
When you’ve reached the end of your patience and you’re feeling worn down..... when you just want to hide under the duvet and not hear muuuuummmmy for the millionth time that day..... when battling them to put socks and shoes and coats on seems just too much effort..... take that walk anyway! Bundle them out the house..... grab the jumpers later.... and go on a fairy hunt....
.
Find an open space, forget what others think, dont parent to the expectations of strangers.... let them run free, stray off the path..... climb that tree!
.......
Because children come alive in nature, they make their own magic, and every burrow, every branch is a potential fairy home...
.
Remember the arguments about tv programmes and room tidies and ‘he keeps looking at me’? No, because they fade away when you’re working together to search for a magical door....
.
Swipe>>>>>> 🧚‍♀️

It’s been ages since I posted on my grid, a few

It’s been ages since I posted on my grid, a few years ago I decided I’d alternate images...... my home, occasion or craft project between snaps of the family.... it worked fairly well while I lived in insta worthy homes..... but in guess I’ve lacked content in the new place
.
Our new house will take a while to stop looking like a building site... but that’s real life. I’ve filmed a house tour on my story highlights, talking through my ideas and plans, it’s probably wont shock you to find out that I’ve even started planning my Christmas decorations.....
.
Not just decorations though, I’ve found a small hiding place for early stocking fillers like these @lankakade wooden animals from @eco.lelu ....it’s never too early. (Rep code EMILY10) can you guess which is for which child?
.
So many exciting opportunities for creativity ahead, I can’t wait to put our mark on this place, make it our own and celebrate family milestones knowing we won’t be moved on.
.
And hopefully they’ll be some insta worthy content over the next few years too as we turn our house into a home..... starting with Gully and Dorys room..... their bed arrived yesterday...... all ready for an ice cream parlour make over!!!
.
🍦

It’s feels like forever since I got my camera ou

It’s feels like forever since I got my camera out, I don’t even know which box it’s in.
.
I guess it will be a big milestone once I’m able to take it out for a walk again..... a milestone in my leg recovery and one in this whole house move chapter..... it will be a symbol of recovery in more ways than one.
.
But for the moment there’s us. There’s phone snaps of my beautiful children because behind the glamour of beautiful insta grid photos are real people, our family! Navigating the final winds of the tornado that hit our life last year.
.
Things are settling, new memories being made.... and we are all very much learning about what it means to be family and how to communicate and hear each other’s needs in a times of stress, we will emerge stronger.... with fierce bonds and new levels of resilience and respect.
.
I’m thankful to be tested, to be able to use this time to learn and grow, to get to know each other. I’m sure of one thing, we are lucky! Lucky to have each other, lucky to have had this experience and. Opportunity.....because we be readily equipped with newfound tools and abilities to l help us support each other in the future
.
Normal insta images will resume soon 🤪

And there we go . I feel I should write some long

And there we go
.
I feel I should write some long emotional farewell. Not just to this house but also to the village, school and people se shared our life with for the past 8 years, but Covid took so much away from us that our old life was merely and echo by the time we closed the door for the final time.
.
I don’t do goodbyes. They’re loaded with expectation. The fear no one will actually care if you leave is a theme echoed throughtout my life, I’ve learnt it’s better to sneak off than face the reality you may not actually be missed.
.
But we can’t undo memories, we can’t take away the value friendships brought in past times of need and we can start a new chapter without invalidating the time that came before.
.
Here’s to the next step and to surviving what was possibly the hardest year of our lives. I’ve always preached that everything works out ok in the end, often for the better, yet for some reason I’m still shocked every time that comes true.
.
🍃 ⛄️ 🍃

When you post a old photo because you just dont ge

When you post a old photo because you just dont get out much anymore!
.
I suppose this is where I justify the image with a heartfelt caption about my husband. And how it’s our ten year anniversary in may and how we survived a tough year etc But can we just assume all that and marvel at Gullivers gorgeous blonde curls instead?
.
🍃🍃🍃

Footstapes Image