mothersday

Best TV Mum moments

Happy Mothers Day! To celebrate the big day, I posted a countdown of the ultimate on-screen mums earlier in the week, counting down the characters that give us mum-goals. The thing is, TV isn’t...

Mother’s Day songs

There’s lots of songs which could be a soundtrack to Mum Life – Under Pressure or No Sleep being prime examples*. But it’s Mother’s Day this week so it’s about celebrating us and putting...

Best Mother’s Day Gifts 2024

We all know why dads get the best gifts on Father’s Day – because it was down to us to buy them. Weeks beforehand, we all went online looking for something personalised, sentimental with...

Best Mother’s Day clothes for kids and babies

Isn’t great when our kids are small and we get to dress them in whatever cute outfits we want? Or better still, when they’re older, but it’s Mother’s Day, so they still dress up...

I don't really know what I'm doing.

I haven't since I was six weeks pregnant with my first child and the early signs of morning sickness started kicking in. Every time I think I'm there, my kids move onto the next stage and I'm back to being clueless again.

Plus it doesn't help looking at yummy mummy blogs - the kind which have insta-filtered photos of kids finger painting Van Gogh's Starry Night or baking vegan souffles before their third birthday.

It's not like there's anything wrong with all that stuff. It's great. But it's unsustainable for plenty of us overwhelmed by tantrums, part-time jobs and half-eaten meals. And it's not like being a Good Mum means you have to be motherhood's answer to Neil Buchanan from Art Attack.

Maybe it's OK to just be OK. In fact, maybe the secret to being amazing is to be consistently good... enough. That way we're not burning out or bursting into tears because our kids didn't roll out the gluten-free cookie dough like we wanted them to.

So I've decided to create my own blog. There's no big sponsorships. No Tiktok account. Just me sharing my musings and any parenting hacks I find in between a mountain of washing and toddler mess. Because we're all super mums, whether we have glossy photographs on social media or are just googling for the odd 30-minute activity before we begin another Bluey marathon.

Either way, we've got this.