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Four For Mums: Christmas Gift Guide

Posted on 23rd November 2018 at 6:39 pm.

Ding ding round 2!! If you missed round 1 of my Christmas gift guide (4 for the littlies) you can find it here.But this week… Read more

Not So Shabby

Posted on 15th February 2016 at 8:05 am.

20 years ago I got a dressing table for my birthday, it’s was in lovely 90s orange pine and all the rage back then. I… Read more

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It’s true what they say, your youngest always se

It’s true what they say, your youngest always seems huge when another baby comes along.
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Gulliver is coping well with the new arrival and it almost feels as through he grew up overnight. We found a lovely new walk yesterday, one that is more contained than some other places we venture, it meant we felt comfortable letting him run around with the bigger boys, rather than insisting on hand holds.....he had an amazing time!
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I’m desperately missing our nighttime snuggles though, Cos I’m bed sharing with baby, he’s going in with Scott if he wakes in the night and, although it’s only for a few months, I feel quite sad about it. When I tuck him in at night I whisper, ‘do you rock my world?’ and he gives a little nod each time! I hope he knows how loved he is, it won’t be long and we can safely have the family bed back, and let’s not forget, because we had a girl, Gully gets to stay my littlest boy forever!
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🦊🌲🥾🌿🧡
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SWIPE>>>> Juggling five! . We we braved it, a day

SWIPE>>>> Juggling five!
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We we braved it, a day out with five children, (bar the supermarket and park which don’t really count) @dinglesfhc
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Harriet’s all good, the oldest boys can now be parented together to an extent.... but the toddler also needs one parent..... then oh dear god there’s a baby too. Yep we were very much outnumbered!
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Highlights include
🍿Gully knocking over a shop display
💩 A Pandora Poo Explosion (requiring full outfit change)
🎠 Rupert spilling his entire bag of ride tokens in the busy entrance way
🤡 Ernie..... being Ernie
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Even so, what a lovely day!
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We may have found the secret to successful parenting......, lower your expectations to zero, learn to do everything one handed, pray the baby sleeps, and visit (an indoor) fairground where your toddler can also go on every ride.... meaning noone is left with 2 under 3 💪🏻
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What’s your top public parenting tips?
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I’m making an effort to post on my grid more now

I’m making an effort to post on my grid more now that little one has arrived. I got out of my insta rhythm during pregnancy and that’s ok cos I was tired and growing a human and stuff, but I’ve really have missed photography.
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I know it’s not good to always be seeing life through a viewfinder but at the same time these moments really do fly past so quickly that I don’t want to regret not capturing them.
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Also, I have so few photos of any of our babies during their first six months (other than the odd phone snap) because I much prefer outdoor photography and, more often than not they’re wrapped up close to my chest..... I’d love to challenge myself and hold a few photo shoots inside, but the idea of asking them to pose doesn’t sit right with me, we’ve tried before and my basic lighting set up Isn’t enough to capture movement without blur
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It should be all freedom and frolics but getting five children to sit still long enough to match the shutter speed is not doable or fun for anyone 😂
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Ah half term! I can honestly say I’ve been feeli

Ah half term! I can honestly say I’ve been feeling so much stronger this week. Post birth hormones have settled and I have so many plans for the week ahead
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The main one though is to work on dividing my time again! The baby bubble is so important, a couple of weeks to establish feeding, recover physically and mentally, I always feel it important to nest down with my newborn to bond and get to know each other but I do have four other children who need me too!
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Although We are all here together I find myself missing our one to one times.... nighttime without my littlest man crawling under the duvet has been tough. But he’s safer sharing with daddy for a bit and I intend to curl up with him for nap time this week while Scott is home!
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I’m also back to doing the bedtime routines! I love story-time, even with a tiny Pandora tagging along for the ride.
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It’s safe to say that I think we are finally finding our new normal.
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This little boy cried and cried as a baby. It was

This little boy cried and cried as a baby. It was exhausting and heartbreaking in equal measure, we carried him, we rocked him, we tried dummies and he nursed so much he was constantly spitting up milk
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one night I remember waking up to find him hanging out of my arms where I had fallen asleep exhausted. From then on we changed our method of parenting. I used slings and we co slept.
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Both Ernie and Gully have benefitted from the things we learnt with our first son.... it may sound crazy but by keeping them close they didn’t even cry, I could pick up on their cues and anticipate their needs..... I thought I had this parenting things sussed....
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Until Pandora... who just didn’t really wake up ...
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it’s been strange and oddly scary having a sleepy baby! She doesn’t really cluster feed.... I can even put her down (not that I will) and I look back on our first weeks and its no wonder we panicked......turns out these unicorn babies do exist?!
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God I hope this isn’t a trade off for the teenage years.
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