Skip to main content

1st post!

Hello all and welcome to my blog. I have abolutely no idea what I'm doing, so bear with the inevitable mistakes/embarrassing boobs I'm bound to make while I figure it all out!

I have my dear friend Cath to thank for this idea. She's a smart cookie is our Cath and she ever-so-delicately planted the seed that a blog would be a good idea for me to do well of a year ago. I think she's right, as this offers me a chance to create an online journal/diary which I can share over the coming days, months and years, to document what an earth I do with my time (!) as well as to keep a lovely record of the ever-more-adorable daughter of mine, so no one misses out and you can all keep track!

I think Cath also thought I needed to do at least one thing a day for myself in a vain attempt to stop me going completely mad. The transition from career girl to Mummy-house refurbisher-household manager-business woman was a bit of a shocker. Hence the name, Wondermum! Well, it is my blog, so I should at least start off by saying nice things - even if they are about me! It's not easy trying to spin all these plates, so to have my very own little place where I can share, laugh and probably occasionally cry about my rather full life can only be a good thing. Hopefully all you other Wonderwomen/Wondermum's can also check in and out now and again to share the ride and maybe even laugh and cry a little too!

It's difficult to know what I will write as I've never written a blog before, but I guess the intention will be to try and write daily about whatever's going on at the time. Some posts will therefore be more entertaining than others and some more relevant than others too. For example, I'm mid-way through time-controlled crying with Amelia, but that may or may not be of much interest to you! I will, however be writing a separate post on that as it is SOO hard to sleep train your children and you feel like such a monster!

Anyhow, that's the little intro. I've been inspired by Cath's own blog (www.hilltophomestead.blogspot.com) along with a couple of others that have become firm fave's - www.thepioneerwoman.com and www.scribblingmummy.co.uk

So here goes! Blog entry number one! See you soon for the next installments.

Oh, and I couldn't not attach a pic of Baby A enjoying her Christmas presents from Daddy (yes, both the car AND the tutu! - Spoilt?!)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Wondermum Makes - Tegenarium - Spider House!

My Mum isn't a lover of spiders and unfortunately she passed this fear unwittingly onto Roar when he was small. She didn't want him to stay afraid and so one Christmas, she bought him a Spider House Kit.  Between us we hoped he would learn about them and watch one and see they spend a lot of their time motionless and aren't really that scary. Don't get me wrong, I don't love it when a spider scuttles too close, but it's usually the shock of something scuttling into view that's more 'scary' than the spider itself.  Well, that's what I tell myself anyway!  We have no poisonous spiders to worry about so there really isn't anything to fear (although I know that isn't the same everywhere). We've had this Spider House Kit tucked away in a box for at least a couple of years as Roar was initially not keen.  However, in Lockdown all  the 'kits' are coming out and so has this one and, what's more, he's LOVED IT! He has l...

Wonder Mum Makes - 7 Step No-Sew Teddy Bear :)

Today is my own Wonder Mum's birthday and so M came up with this idea as something she could send her Nanny while we are all in Lockdown. Here are step-by-step instructions of how to make a no-sew Teddy bear and bring a little sunshine into your day :) Things You Will Need Small bathroom towel or a pillowcase 3 x small rubber bands or loom bands Your own choice of ribbon or decoration e.g. wool / string / elastic etc.  A clear, flat working area Instructions Step 1 Lay out your towel or pillow case on your working area and fold approximately one third of the way. Step 2 Start rolling upwards from the bottom, tightly. Keep doing this until roughly half way. Step 3 Repeat from the top so that you end up with the two tightly rolled sections meeting in the middle, like two sausages. Step 4 This is the tricky one as it's two steps in one.  Fold your sausages across on themselves, as if you were c...

Wondermum Makes - No-Spider Tegenarium / Spiderless Spider House!

Further to my recent post, I realise not everyone loves spiders and not everyone knows where to find them or is sure if their spiders are safe.  And, as we also have a toddler in our house, we needed a 'Cub Safe' version to ensure no real spiders are harmed by an excited toddler shaking their spider-house! So we decided to make a pretend spider so Cub could also be included :) To make the actual spider house, see my other post - this is just to make the fake spiders! Things You Will Need Our list included single and double-sided tape, curling ribbon, scissors, paper, black pen and optional googly-eyes :) But if you don't have all of the above, you could use glue instead of tape or double-back on itself some single sided tape to make it double-side.  Curling ribbon could be string/cotton/wool etc. Your spider can be any colour so any colour paper will do or colour some in.  You could even use newspaper!  And if you don't have googly-eyes, you can m...