picture from children of the 90sI have made some lovely insta-friends from all over the world and who I often chat too. Last night I was talking to my friend Ruth, a Scottish blogger living… Read More

Children 1st is a Scottish children’s charity which helps children and families who have suffered trauma. This could be anything from abuse, neglect, bullying or bereavement – to… Read More

Halloween started in medieval England, a tradition that has taken over (most) of the world. To avoid being recognized by the visiting spirits, people would dress up in masks whenever they le… Read More

October is Miscarriage awareness month – this month allows the women who have felt they needed to be silent to talk about the grief a miscarriage can bring.Miscarriages happen to 1 in… Read More

Taken from Tommy’s webpage- they are a charity that support couples through stillbirth, premature death and miscarriage. Details can be found at the end of the post.Having one miscarri… Read More

How did you learn about the birds and the bees?I was around 7 or 8 and my mum handed me a book and said “read this”. It was a cartoon about how babies were made; I was aware of t… Read More

Before I had children, I was all about the glamour!I was a beauty therapist who had access to all kinds of lotions, potions and treatments, many that I could perform on myself.After I had Co… Read More

I am not a bad person.I am a lot of things but I definitely don’t see myself as bad.The other day I received an email from a lovely woman; I had been helping her with her writing of a… Read More

The summer is over and a new term has started, yip the kids are back to school! Pop the champagne!7 weeks of summer holidays seem to bring so much anxiety with lack of childcare, endless act… Read More

I was watching lovely day time TV and a segment came up on This Morning and it stated –“are women being pressurised to give birth without pain relief?”It had two women on t… Read More

I think we can say safely that the summer is over in Scotland (and what a summer it was!) as I have noticed the mornings darker, fresher and the house colder. My husband says it’s stil… Read More

I didn’t really want to write something like this but it’s come to my attention that people are worried about me.My parents have been stopped in the street or received calls from… Read More

My daughter never slept more than 4 hours at a time till she was 2 and a half years old, I had forgotten what quality sleep felt like.Nothing, absolutely nothing (believe me, we tried) would… Read More

Hello readers, I am currently writing this from my sick bed after coming down with something so quickly. It may be tonsillitis or maybe just a really horrid cold but either way, I am sufferi… Read More

I have been all over the place lately and it’s really taken it out of me and I know why.It started after our trip to Mull, I had been feeling so good and positive that I decided to pos… Read More

Sophie is turning 16 and as her family tradition, goes her mum is baking her a cake.The leading lady (Danyah Miller) asks the audience for help as she adds the ingredients and bakes it in fr… Read More

I have been blogging weekly since November and it has been an experience, I can tell you!I started this blog for something to call my own after years of “being just a mummy” and… Read More

The summed holidays can leave us parents wondering how we are going to keep the kids from killing each other and stop us from losing the small amount of sanity we have left.Here is an idea… Read More

Hello friends! We are back with another Other Mum feature, its been a while for these but I have been so busy and these take so much time today that I have just pushed it to the back....sorr… Read More

Hello readers, welcome back! It’s the last week before the summer holidays and the weather in Edinburgh is a very unusual 27 degrees and I am suffering. As a Scottish lass I am just no… Read More

On Sunday the 17th of June we were kindly invited by Mackay’s Jams to attend Paddington 2. This was at St Andrews Square for the open air cinema organised by Edinburgh Events.Launched… Read More

I love clothes and dressing up, I would not say I am trendy or stylish in the main stream kind of way but I know what I wear is more than right for me.I do struggle at times with what to wea… Read More

Do you have a dream?...... Or is it now a case of “i had a dream”?As we get older do we lose our dreams and channel our attention towards creating achievable substandard goals as… Read More

I attended my first blogger event last night and I was so nervous and excited.With social anxiety, going to new places is hard and going alone is even harder. I was lucky that I had met a fe… Read More

So sorry for the late post, this is my first ever late post but I have a good reason. My son, Cassius took a right tumble, he was crying, I was crying and my neighbours who saw it all were c… Read More

With Ireland fighting for the right for women to have an abortion, it had got me thinking about my views and the right to my own body. Pic from liveaction.orgI am pro-choice, I have not had… Read More

This week I have for you, the one and only Anniki!!Anniki is part of the Selfish Mother team, where I regularly post. You can find it here.They also are the people who gave us the cool "moth… Read More

Last week was a tough one, my mental health was all over the place but it passed and I feel more positive this week.I held my first giveaway on Instagram and I think it went so well, I cant… Read More

If you are a regular blog reader, you will know that I preach this lady and her lifestyle and how the organised mother method had changed my life.I am honoured that she wanted to be apart of… Read More

Its Mental Health awareness week and as a blogger and a mum I have been overwhelmed with the amount of people getting out and sharing there thoughts and experiences.The modern world has sent… Read More

This is Olga aka The big fat Greek mother and I had the great pleasure of interviewing her.Olga is an amazing comedienne and you need to follow this lady! She is also a mum so I am so happy… Read More

What makes you happy?This seems like a very easy question but if you stop for a minute and think, what really does make you happy?My mum said my blog needs to contain more happiness and even… Read More

This feature is on fire!! I have some exciting mothers coming up so you will want to stay tuned for that. This week we have the wonderful Ruth, an ex-pat mummy with a baba on the way. Ruth h… Read More

Something was brought to my attention and it was something I never thought that I was...My name is MumForce and I am (unknowingly) a judgey mum.I am not a mean person, ask anyone I know. I w… Read More

Welcome back for another edition of The Other Mum!! I have actually met this lovely lady briefly and we are both members of The Book Club Social. Her two beautiful children are also brand re… Read More

My gran was my best friend; I spent nearly every weekend and after school there. I even went for lunch most days so I could save my dinner money so I could buy Harry Potter books.Being from… Read More

After a week off while I sunned myself in Rome, we are back and itswith the much loved The Other Mum feature!This one is a good one; we have WEESLICE The forever funny insta-storyqueen. If y… Read More

We are back! This feature is becoming so super popular, I am just going to have to keep finding these fabulous mummies for you! So here's another...This week we have Suzy aka @forever_a_mum… Read More

If you watch my insta-stories, you will know I like a good rant about cleaning. I, at times have found it very overwhelming keeping on top of the housework and caring for two young children(… Read More

My favourite post of the week...The Other Mum feature! This week I have the lovely and very funny Kara aka Utter_mother.She is a gem on Instagram and I have had the pleasure of getting to kn… Read More

Now I know am not the only one with this topic, YouTube and the obsession my children have with it.It started about 2 years ago when CC was 2 and she started to take an interest in the Ipad… Read More

I have another for you all, this is Aoife aka @edinburghmumma. She isn't a blogger but an Instagram star. This lady produces some of the funniest, loveliness and sometimes emotional stories… Read More

When this blog is posted I will have celebrated my 32nd birthday!And like everyone says “I can’t believe it!” I remember my mum’s 32nd birthday as it was the birthday… Read More

After watching a great live Insta-story featuring OrganicallyEpic and Weeslice, it was a fab wee chat and we got to learn more about the lovely WeeSlice (shes a bloody legend, BTW)Weeslice m… Read More

I am loving this feature! I have gotten to meet some lovely mummies doing this and this mummy is as lovely as the rest.The super relaxed, hard working Diary of a Yoga Mummy!About me:I'm an e… Read More

It’s coming up for my birthday so I was messaging a few friends to see if they would be out for some last minute celebrations, a lot of the replies where the same, they had been feelin… Read More

This week we have the lovely Yvonne aka champagne and snotty noses.Yvonne is not only a fabulous blogger, amazing mum, body positive promoter she is one of the founding of the BOOK club! I f… Read More

It started a couple of weeks ago; it briefly entered my mind and then was gone.As the days went on the urge became stronger, I hate to hide this little secret.I searched the internet looking… Read More

Since I have started this blog, I have really started to build an interest in other blogger's, especially the blogger that are in the city I call home, Edinburgh!This feature, The Other Mums… Read More

Ah, Mother’s day! It’s the day when we mums are celebrated for being the bad asses that we are. The day when we don’t lift a finger and the rest of the family kiss our feet… Read More

I love a clean home.I hate bad smells they make me feel anxious in my home.I have a cleaning routine I follow everyday; I do it so my house stays an acceptable (to me) level of cleanliness a… Read More

Should you be asked to leave if your baby is crying?This is a pretty dangerous question to be asking as both sides have a strong case.The story comes from a cafe in London who asked a mother… Read More

Cheeky Chomper -Product ReviewThe story“Two mumpreneurs who started Cheeky Chompers while we were on maternity leave with our first children. The Neckerchew was born after lots of catc… Read More

The boy is on the move!He hasn’t quite got it but it’s coming.He can now roll from one side of the room to another, bum shuffle in a circle and it starting to attempt to pull him… Read More

I thought I would write my birthing story for my daughter, my first baby. Who doesn’t love reading and talking about giving birth?It’s so bloody fascinating, every mother has one… Read More

WestGate Farm, EdinburghWhereWestgate Farm, 55 south Gyle Broadway, EdinburghPart of the Farmhouse Inns chainInformation:Westgate farm is part of the Farmhouse Inn chain and is situated in t… Read More

My weekend was a party weekend.I had my annual Christmas in January with my old workmates, one of which is my best friend and don’t see her as much due to both our schedules.I drank (t… Read More

I, like most people spend my free time binge watching on Netflix and recently I have been really in to documentaries.This is a recommendation and no, I don’t work for Netflix and have… Read More

Nursery is back and it’s another 6 weeks till the next holidays.It feels longer as with sickness I have had CC at home for nearly a month and she is ready to go back.She is bored and I… Read More

What do you tell someone who is thinking about having a child?The truth?Scare them into running straight to the hospital to have the baby maker removed? The truth is scary but doesn’t… Read More

With the start of the New Year, I am sure plenty of us have decided to banish the chocolate and blow the dust off our Davina workout DVD’s.I, like everyone else will be putting back on… Read More

I am a working mother – part time, yes but I still work.Working parents have it bad- there I said it out loud.We have to work to earn money, we need money to live but living with littl… Read More

I don’t really like New Years, I feel it’s a bit of an anti-climax and it’s very expensive especially in Edinburgh to actually go out and do anything.I do like to do resolu… Read More

Well thats it all over for another year!I hope everyone had a fabby Christmas- my family and I had an amazing time.This was the first year my daughter really understood the whole Santa and t… Read More