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Ruth Crilly / April 6, 2018

Role-Play Obsession: I Deserve An Oscar

Angelica’s appetite for pretending to be other people (or making other people pretend to be other people) knows no bounds. It began with a weird Peter Rabbit/Mr McGregor role-play that I was repeatedly forced into… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / April 3, 2018

Toddler, Baby and Me: The Fourteen Month Update

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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… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / March 7, 2018

PE Flashbacks and The Ultimate Indoor Energy-Burner

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These sports markers give me such horrendous PE flashbacks; the gym teacher (Miss Lawton) barking instructions at us as we stood shivering in the cold, watching her jog along in her shell suit, throwing the… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / March 6, 2018

Parenting Highs and Lows: February 2018

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I’ll keep the intro short here, because it’s a chatty video below and I don’t want to end up just typing out a sort of inaccurate, truncated transcript. So without further ado: things I’ve struggled… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / March 3, 2018

Toddler, Baby and Me: The Thirteen Month Update

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I must stop writing these updates at the last minute – although, why change what is now such an established habit? I think that the majority of the monthly updates I’ve written (and I’ve done… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / February 14, 2018

The Slide into Work/Life Chaos: 3 Ways I Regained Control

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I’ve banged on about this countless times on various social media platforms, but the months at the end of 2017 were absolute chaos for me. We relocated to Somerset, moving house twice, Baby Ted wasn’t sleeping… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / February 9, 2018

Quality Time on the Changing Mat | AD

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This is my third and final post with Huggies Pure Wipes and I wanted to talk about how nappy-changing time can be one of the most important times of the day in terms of connecting… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / February 8, 2018

Winter Warmers: The Higher-Tog Sleepsuits

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Just a quick post: some higher-tog sleepsuits for those with f-f-f-f-freezing houses. (To be fair, it’s not that bad now that we’ve worked out the heating, but it still gets a little bit nippy in… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / February 3, 2018

Toddler, Baby and Me: The One Year Update

This is where I’m supposed to write “how time flies!” “I can’t believe Ted is a year old already!” or “it seems like only yesterday that Ted was a tiny newborn wrapped in a little… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / January 29, 2018

Parenting Highs and Lows: January 2018

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A new feature for you, to supplement the written monthly updates that you read here on the blog; Parenting Highs and Lows will be a chatty, rambling video about all of the good and bad things that… View Post

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Ruth Crilly / January 24, 2018

The Best Ever Kids’ Ice Lollies!

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I know that it feels very unseasonal to be talking about ice lollies, but they’re the most-requested treat in our household (both me with my Mint Magnums and Angelica with her Mini Milks!) regardless of… View Post

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