What feels like many moons ago now, I started Attachment Parenting UK’s Positive Discipline Course. Bee was fast approaching 2 years old, and I could sense her burgeoning independence and strong will. It was time to do a bit of…
When the children go back to school we will stand in the play area and breathe. Hold out our arms and spin. We will run as fast as we can, with no shoes on. Climb up the slide and lie…
I’m a bit obsessed with toys. With play environments and spaces for children. Setting up Bee’s shelves, and changing them around as her interests grow and her skills develop is one of my favourite things to do. I’m a firm…
I wanted to be a breastfeeding mother, but when asked, I'd modestly add, "if I can". I wanted an unmedicated water birth, but when the doctors suggested induction, I politely agreed. I wanted delayed cord clamping, but when no one…
Sometimes I don't feel like writing.  Sometimes the words in my head become too many, and I lose sight of how to get them out.  And other times, the words feel small, insignificant, un-noteworthy.  I've struggled to write since we…
I’ve been missing in action for the last two months. On the blog, on social media, and to be perfectly honest in real life too. Everything in our world seemed to be changing. Out of our control and happening all…
Two for the price of one this week. Last week was so super busy, that trying to do my Little Things post fell to the bottom of the heap. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s okay – that…
This time last year we started using cloth nappies. Bee was 8 months old. We had intended to try them very early on, but in the haze of first time parenthood they fell way down the list of priorities, somewhere…
I promised a bucket list for North Yorkshire and here it is. Back in February, whilst writing my 25 Things To Do In West Yorkshire Before You’re Five guide, I found that there were quite a few things we regularly…
I’ve been so busy this week that I’m pretty surprised I’m even managed to find time for some Little Things. But I’m glad I have. No matter how long my to do list, I always like to make sure that…
Finding the Little Things that have made me smile every week, really helps me appreciate what’s great in my life. Too often I only see the bad. The argument about how we were spending our day, or Bee refusing to…
I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I always pictured children in my future. Each year passed, life threw its curveballs and diversions, but it was always a certainty. Until it wasn’t. It never occurred to me that…
