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Several years ago, I pulled together a savoury snack list, after discovering Belle helping herself to handfuls of icing sugar for breakfast. I’d tried to lie in and then kind of slept while I heard the children crashing around downstairs. I knew I’d ...

A few weeks ago, I came downstairs in the morning to find a trail of icing sugar between the kitchen and the living room. Negligent in my parenting, I’d had a lie-in and almost slept while I could hear the girls crashing around downstairs. On a Sund...

I’ve just returned home from four days in Spain for the wedding of my lifelong friend, Trish. We’ve known each other since we were seven years old: we walked to school together, learnt to ride bikes together, tried to outsmart our parents together …...

Susie Switch paid a midseason visit to our house last week, scooping up a bucket full of candy that the kids had been stashing since Christmas. The excitement level was pretty major, you honestly would have thought that Santa himself was on his way....

I was filing away old copies of these columns last night when Chloe’s eyes landed on last year’s Elf on the Shelf debate. Across the room I watched her pull the illustrated pages out of the pile and sit down to read them. I propelled myself across t...

“You can't kiss me now Benjamin,” whispered Chloe, “…my Mummy's watching.” And so it begins. At the tender age of three, my little girl is starting to hide things from me. And we're not just talking crayons in the washing machine, but her very first...