"Captain's log. Stardate 031118. I have been lost in cyberspace for over four hours and rescue seems unlikely. The wall lights I've been trying to buy for the stairs and landing have eluded me for almost an entire calendar year yet still I search for them, typing...
After the best summer in living memory (for me, at least; those older have enjoyed banging on about the summer of '76 which was, of course, hotter, longer and tougher) we find ourselves hurtling into autumn. The leaves are starting to fall, the nights are drawing in...
I'm having one of those evenings when I feel as though I'm most definitely losing at the whole parenthood game. The tedious bedtime battles continue and the longer the battle goes on for, the more wound up I get. Honestly, it's like being a negotiator in one of those...
If you've ever wondered how hardy kids' clothing is, then let me tell you that it does not withstand being repeatedly sandpapered. A couple of weeks ago we went to visit Mr AMR's cousin and she had a ramp in the garden for her little dog, who is quite old and can't...
(links marked * are affiliate links, for more info see disclaimer below post) I'm a bit broken this week. Lack of sleep (I thought we were past those days) and tediously long bedtime sequences have stretched me to the end of my tether. Or stretched my tether? What...
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...
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...
I had such an overwhelming response to my video on infertility a couple of months ago; so many people emailed me and left comments talking about their own experiences. It's an incredibly difficult and delicate subject to broach, really, because it's not something that...
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...
When Mr AMR and I first had Angelica, we vowed never to take a holiday abroad for at least five years. Just getting to Sainsbury's was enough of a faff - getting her into the car seat, getting her out again for a feed and a change, stopping for another feed halfway...
Don't panic, but this might be the last monthly update on The Uphill in its current form. I'm considering merging my two websites together, so that beauty and style content from A Model Recommends sits alongside life updates and family stuff and posts about being a...
I think, for the first time, my self-imposed monthly update deadline may have beaten me. I do not have a single ounce of energy to type up my thoughts or think of witty things to say about poo (or the fact that the other day I got poo all over my tracksuit bottoms,...