tobehonest

I’m about to get controversial. Unlike most Irish people my age, I never engaged in the annual tradition of watching The Late Late Toy Show. To be honest, I didn’t think it was that unusual until other people started looking at me like I had three heads when I would say it. Almost every adult […]

5 years ago

Sometimes, as a mam I’m on the ball. Sometimes I’m not… When my children were babies I had all these ideas in my head about how I was going to be the perfect Pinterest mam. Now I look back at the notions past me had and oh how I laugh. Don’t get me wrong, when […]

5 years ago

This week is World Breastfeeding Week. All over social media I’m seeing mums post photos of themselves breastfeeding their children. It brings back a lot of happy memories of when I breastfed my own children but it also made me pine for those days a little too. My breastfeeding journey was not straightforward at all. […]

5 years ago

Forget about your four star cuisine. If you’ve given birth in an Irish maternity hospital you know all about the best meal ever which is the post labour tea and toast. It’s iconic, it should probably have a little golden teapot and toaster statue somewhere in the country at this stage really. The first time […]

5 years ago

I may as well throw the lock on the toilet away. I don’t know if it’s the height of irony that, as I’m writing this, my toddler is looming over me asking ‘what you doing?’ on repeat. It is a fact universally known that once you become a parent you can say goodbye to any […]

5 years ago

Every time! What is it with kids and waiting until the absolute last minute to tell you they need something for school the next day? It just feels like if my child has the option of telling me a week beforehand or a few hours beforehand they will always choose the latter and I know […]

5 years ago