April 2016 Favourites

I cannot believe we are into May already. This year is going by like crazy and I feel like I’m having to sprint to keep up.

Every month I’ll bring you a selection of things I’ve been loving this month. Some are old, some are new, some are rediscoveries and some will be more than a little strange.

Enjoy and let me know in the comments what you’ve been loving the last few weeks!

MUM’S BEAUTY HACKS

(Or how to “borrow” your baby’s stuff to make you look less dragged through a hedge)

So you’ve had a baby! Congratulations. I bet everybody told you that pregnancy would make you glow and staring into your adoring baby’s eyes will make you feel a million pounds. Sort of true, but when you’ve had two hours sleep in three days, have a stain that could be baby sick, mashed banana or something your little tyke has pulled out from under the sofa, it’s hard to feel like a functioning member of society, let alone a polished one.

ONLINE MUM GROUPS

Or “Why being in a group that can be a little bit like school, and a touch judgemental has saved my sanity and probably made me a better parent.”

Being a parent is hard. We knew it when we signed up for it but we still did it anyway.

Beauty Sleep? PAH!

I am currently sat in my daughter’s bedroom. It is 3am Friday morning and she is currently gnawing some sort of multicoloured key set. 

I am very, very tired.

I Will Never Be a "Yummy Mummy"

I am not a glamorous person. I have always wanted to BE a glamorous person. I’ve ATTEMPTED to be a glamorous person. It’s never quite panned out that way.

I’ve got drawers full of cosmetics, have watched hours of YouTube make up tutorials, I know my pomade from my primer. Nowadays though it’s still not really happening.

I am currently sat on a Tuesday lunchtime, setting up a blog when I should be sorting out laundry whilst my kitchen gets refitted. My baby is having a rare “this-is-longer-than -ten -minutes” nap (Mummy win!) I’m wearing Uggs that look like they’ve been attacked by a spaniel, a pair of jogging bottoms with stains that could be baby drool or could be rice cake and I’m 86% certain I only brushed half my hair this morning.

This blog (and my YouTube channel if I ever brave the camera!) is part auto-biographical part “sort yourself out woman”. Anybody with a small child will agree that the minutest of tasks is like running a marathon with a child in tow. Gone are the days I could skip to the shops for a pint of milk, now I have to catch a rapidly crawling 9 month old, locate and reapply her socks, bundle her up and that’s before she’s even in the pram and I have to work out if it’s worth running upstairs to put a bra on.

Hopefully I will entertain you, hopefully I will amuse you, Hell! If we are lucky we might learn something along the way.

Dani

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