Returning to work doens’t sound too tricky, does it? You’ve been there before. You know it. It is nothing new. Wrong! Returning to work after parental leave is a bit of a big deal. Going back is not just going back. In a way, you go back as a different person. Everything in life is […]

7 years ago

I am a stay-at-home mum. After 26 months at home I am able to admit it. Up until now I have always felt the need to tell people that I am on parental leave and that I have a paid job to go back to. A sensible, grown-up responsible job with travel and decisions, smart […]

10 years ago

More kids, more pets, more happiness. Apparently that is the secret.   Do you believe it? I do. In fact I am living proof. This time three years ago I was a working mother of two, thinking life was grand. We were sticking with two. We wouldn’t get a pet, even though the children were […]

10 years ago

Every now again, something will happen in my role as parent that gets me thinking about jobs I’ve had in the past. I’ve begun to wonder whether my choice of work has been a subconscious effort to train for parenthood. Let’s start with my temp job as P.A. to a manager who wouldn’t make his own […]

10 years ago

Sometimes I wonder at the things my sons say. To listen to them, you would think that they were being brought up by a male chauvinist and a real girly-girl SAHM. I’ve started to wonder if their apparent sexism is inborn. OK, so their Papa is a big, strong man who fishes and shoots and […]

10 years ago

Day trips are a big thing with us, whether at home in Germany or in Ireland on our visits two or three times a year.  The boys are at an age now where we can easily visit historical sights as well as parks and playgrounds, so we took advantage of that and did a lot […]

10 years ago

When your children speak to you, you nod, answer or react in some other way, don’t you? You hear the words that are coming out of their mouths, but do you really listen to what they are saying? We’ve all been there – your mind is elsewhere and you realise your child is waiting for […]

10 years ago

Becoming a parent taught me many things, from the basics of dressing a newborn to deep and meaningful stuff like the depth of a mother’s love. Becoming a happy parent took a while. Of course I was overjoyed with my first and subsequent children as each of them arrived. The change in lifestyle wasn’t a shock, but […]

10 years ago