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The midwife recorded the time of birth on kitchen roll

This week I’ve been sorting through Little B’s memory box and with BB now at school I’ve finally got around [...]

By |September 18th, 2015|Parenting|20 Comments

‘I cried hot burning tears because I dreaded the reaction my shoes would get at school’

BB started school for the first time this week, which needless to say made me think about my first day [...]

By |September 11th, 2015|Family life, Uncategorised|24 Comments

Flashback Friday: I was too scared to buy anything for the baby

This time last year I was seven months pregnant with Little B and still hadn't bought one single baby item. [...]

By |August 28th, 2015|Pregnancy|10 Comments

Flashback Friday: BB looks more and more like me

This is me when I was four. Tomorrow BB turns four, and as you can see we look quite alike. [...]

By |August 14th, 2015|Family life|10 Comments

Flashback Friday: I had to be induced because there was no sign of her budging

Since becoming a mum in 2011 the first two weeks of August always remind me of waiting for BB to [...]

By |August 7th, 2015|Family life|2 Comments

Flashback Friday: ‘He doesn’t look anything like you’

‘He doesn’t look anything like you’ and ‘they don’t look like brother and sister’. Those are some of the remarks [...]

By |July 24th, 2015|Parenting|6 Comments

The Loch Ness monster came to our wedding

It seems like a lifetime ago that I walked down the aisle and became Mrs Misery Guts. In fact it [...]

By |July 17th, 2015|Family life|12 Comments

Flashback Friday: the day we nearly burnt down my mum & dad’s house

This time two years ago we were preparing for our first foreign family holiday, which called to mind the previous year’s [...]

By |July 10th, 2015|Family life|4 Comments

Flashback Friday: A royal christening

If you haven’t already heard, then you soon will. This weekend Princess Charlotte will be christened – a day after [...]

By |July 3rd, 2015|Family life|2 Comments

Flashback Friday: Mammaries are made of this

I started Crummy Mummy in January 2013 as I prepared to stop breastfeeding BB, and by May the journey was [...]

By |June 26th, 2015|Breast feeding|22 Comments