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Confessions of a Single Mum

The ups, the downs and sideways views of life as a single parent

My First Mothers Day Without a Mum

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There has been many times I went to call you then remembered you're not there. There has been many times I was going to text but remembered you're not there. Today my social feeds are full of grinning mums with their cards and presents. Declarations of 'worlds best mum' scroll past my eyes one after the other. We use to be of the same thinking, that Mothers Day was just another day. It was for retailers to make yet more money. When I told my own children a few years ago that Mothers Day for ... VIEW POST

I Wish For My Children…

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There are many things no one warns you about when you have a child and one of those things is your hopes and dreams for them as they grow up. Adulthood for them seems so far away but really it just around the corner.  You have little hopes like that they will learn to tie their own shoelaces before they get married as you imagine you will be tieing their laces even when they are married or you have dreams that they will develop their hidden tidy gene. Sadly the tidy gene is only blessed on a ... VIEW POST

When I Am Old….

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... ok well a bit older than I am now as lets face it according to the younger generation your abominably old from your 30's, I have a list of things I want to do. Not your ordinary list oh no. Well it all started when my children were small and would be up all night or/and get up with the larks. I was the image of zoombiefied. Someone much wiser and further along the parent path reassured me its all fine in the end and you do get a form of 'payback'. Oh how I smile now as my children are ... VIEW POST

That Pesky Hidden Sugar

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Over on the good old BBC today, slightly buried, is an article about parents being urged to get the free sugar app from change4life  to check the sugar in your products. It works by scanning the barcodes on products and telling you how many sugar cubes or grams of sugar in that product. Public Health England say that young children are eating three times ...yes THREE ...more than their sugar limit. Its been widely shouted that a can of cola contains NINE cubes of sugar and a chocolate bar ... VIEW POST

Its Christmas But It Ok To…

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Its Christmas now even though the retailers they have been trying coax you into a festive frame of shopping mind since October. Tempers are starting to get frayed. Purses and wallets are emptying faster than we can fill them. Were in the final drag, just one week to go. This time next week we will be tidying away the debris and starting to think about climbing into bed knowing its over for another year. But it is ok to be knackered and totally fed up with the whole thing already. Its ok ... VIEW POST

This Christmas Thing as a Single Parent

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Its that time of year again. Its costly, knackering and quiet frankly it can be very overwhelming. Christmas. Loved the world over by little ones and probably dreaded by most adults. Never more so when money is already tight you have to pull something magical out of the bag and make it magical, special and have a huge smile on your face. 14 years as a single parent works out as 14 Christmasses under my belt. Not all have been perfect but not all have been disasters either. So here are my tips ... VIEW POST