Life Update: Time, Tears and The Big Girl Bed

Life Update: Time, Tears and The Big Girl Bed

This month has been dominated, both emotionally and practically, by the arrival of Angelica's Big Girl Bed. It has taken up a lot of time, this Big Girl Bed; first, choosing it (I was torn between buying an antique and getting a new one), then working out what else we...

Life Update: Magnums, Metaphysics and Possible Death by HIIT

Life Update: Magnums, Metaphysics and Possible Death by HIIT

It's the 3rd of the month, which means life update day. It has been published on the 3rd of every month for well over a year - I changed it to the 3rd when Ted was born (on - you've guessed it - the 3rd!) and before that it was on the 17th, which was the day of the...

Life Update: Fibs, Bibs and Turning Off the AGA

Life Update: Fibs, Bibs and Turning Off the AGA

Those of you who read The Uphill - the parenting and family blog I write "in my spare time" (haha) - will already be familiar with my life updates. I do one every single month without fail, always on the same day of the month, and I've been writing these little...