When you spend up to year staring at your shiny new baby, it’s easy to get cold feet about having to go back to the office. You fill your days with baby group and coffee mornings, playdates and simply just vegging out exhausted with your new baby. The clock is ticking, though, and going back to work after maternity leave is just around the corner. The idea that you’ll have to leave your baby? Not a nice one! It’s time spent away from the ...
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Getting Started with Your Wedding Planning
Planning a wedding can be an incredibly daunting task. This event is often built up as the most important day of people’s lives and regardless of how you approach it, some sort of planning is going to have to go into it. But don’t worry. There are plenty of things you can do to make the entire process a little easier. Here are just a few areas you might want to focus on to get the ball rolling in the right direction! Proposing We live in ...
Why You Really Need An Attic Conversion
Do you feel like you are running out of space in your home? And do you wish you had an extra room available? If the answer is yes to both questions, you might have thought about moving to a larger place. But, what if you can gain the extra space you need without leaving your home and the neighborhood? One of the best ways of creating more space in your home is to have an attic conversion. Many people don't realize they can turn their attic ...
3 Simple Ways To Make Long Haul Travel With Kids Less Stressful
When you were young, free and single, you probably adored the idea of venturing overseas on a long haul flight. You could use your time in the aeroplane to catch a couple of movies, enjoy a couple of glasses of your favorite tipple and enjoy some R and R with your travel pillow before landing in your chosen destination. However, fast forward to now, and you may have a young brood in tow. Because you haven’t been able to face the concept of long ...
Improvements You Shouldn’t Wait to Make in Your Home
Your home is more than likely your most valuable asset, so it makes sense to want to improve it. The right changes will make your home more functional and more valuable, both of which are factors all homeowners care about. But which home improvements are most important? What are the upgrades that you shouldn’t want to make in your home? Read on to find out. Modernize Your Bathroom Your bathroom is perhaps the most important room in your ...
Unexpected emotional milestones in parenting
Being a parent is one of those roller coasters that nobody can prepare us for, One minute we can leave the house without much trouble, the next it’s like a military operation that really tests our patients. There are some obvious milestones like the first day of school, and when the children learn to walk, but there are also some milestones that seem to sneak upon us, and we don’t really prepare for. Here are some of those undervalued and ...
Back to the Roots!
Disclosure: Product provided for review. ALl opinions are my own. I don't have a green thumb. At. All. My husband likes to poke fun when garden shops post signs like "easy care" because he knows if I take that poor plant home, I will manage to have its leaves withered and brown in no time. Last Easter, I purchased Back to the Roots kits for all the little cousins in the family. I don't know if they actually used them, but I felt they ...
Is your family ready for a dog?
It’s one of those things that we are all keen to have at one point or another - but having a puppy in your life is the kind of thing that you don’t want to rush into for no good reason. The truth is that it is a lot of work and a significant amount of effort to have a puppy to look after, and you should only do so if you are really keen to make sure that you can look after one as well as possible. If you can’t, then you should get a less ...