In my second post with Huggies Pure Wipes (the first one, The Art of Nappy Changing, is here) I want to run through some of my most-used baby products for bath and body. I could fill pages and pages with reviews of all of the things I've tried (I use them on myself as...
Inside Ted’s Nursery: It’s All Change
What with all of this sleep talk (Ted is sleeping through, just about - read the latest update here) I thought I'd touch upon some of the changes we made to Ted's cot and nursery set-up. Because before we went in with stronger sleep tactics (change to routine,...
Sunday Tittle Tattle: My Non-Relaxing Relaxation List
I've come to the conclusion that I am physically and mentally incapable of achieving a state of relaxation. When I thought I was going to have four weeks off over Christmas (it was actually two weeks, strictly speaking, but four weeks away from "making content" for...
How I’m Getting My Baby To Sleep Through The Night…
OK so I'm going to - tentatively - put it out there that my baby sleep-inducing methods might actually be working. We've had five nights in a row of solid sleep from 11pm-7am, which is simply unheard of until now. It's a revelation. (So long as you ignore the night...
A Letter to my “First Time Mum” Self | AD
When Vicks BabyRub got in touch with me to see whether or not I would like to write this post, my first thought wasn't "ooh, what would I tell myself as a first time Mum?" but "oh my God, Vicks do a BABY RUB?" I can't tell you how many times I lamented the fact that...
A Week In My Life: December 2017
Don't get too excited - I'm not back, not properly. I'm just poking my head around the door really, so that you don't forget about me. And I also needed to post up my December Week In My Life before it became totally outdated and irrelevant. I mean, it's pretty much...
The Baby Sleep Situation: Patience and Perseverance
I've just been reading a post I wrote when Angelica was tiny; How I Got My Baby To Sleep Through The Night. Goodness, she was a piece of cake in comparison to Ted! And I was at the end of my tether then, feeding every couple of hours through the night. Luckily...
Toddler, Baby and Me: The Eleven Month Update
Sorry about the radio silence: things got a bit too much before Christmas, what with moving house again and not having any regular help with the chicklings and all of that jazz. I didn't even have time to do an "out of office" post with a Cheerio! and a Merry...
When Four (Weeks Off) Become One
I had this crazy idea, about two weeks ago, that I would take some time off over Christmas. I'm talking proper time off - a month perhaps, or at least three weeks. Digital detox, with broadband hub disconnected, iPhone frozen in a block of ice and buried in the garden...
Sunday Tittle Tattle: Honey, I Shrunk The Best Jumper of 2017
There were almost fireworks this morning when I opened the tumble dryer door to find my favourite jumper shrunk to about a third of its usual size. "You'd still get into that!" said Mr AMR, completely missing the point, which was that he had (as usual) chucked all of...
Filmstar Bronze & Glow: Brush-On Glam
Oooh it's quite pricey, but what an absolute treat this is: the Filmstar Bronze & Glow palette from Charlotte Tilbury. I have actually used it for a few years now** but recently my dependence on it has become quite alarming. This morning I bronzed-and-highlighted...
The Curious Christmas Gift Guide
Oh, I've been having a right old chortle to myself over some of the stuff I've bought recently. Mouse-statue reading lamps and polar bear side tables and silly little notebooks with owls on them. It's as though the part of my brain responsible for buying things has...