As a mum, you spend a lot of your time rewatching old movies with your kids. Sometimes it's a (futile) bonding exercise (they will never love it as much as you do) or sometimes it's family movie night where you find yourself watching a Disney princess prance about...
When I sat down to write this post it occurred to me that this blog, my podcast, the cottage garden and all of my photography collaborations would not have happened if it wasn't for this 100-year-old cottage which we live in. The journey we had while buying our first...
As a parents one of the questions we have struggled with is whether to share images of our children on social media. If we choose to do it, how do we do it safely? How do we as parents control it? *warning this post is full of cute toddler images & different...
At the end of the summer we wanted to do something fun as a family and this trip to Tayto Park in Ashbourne, Co. Meath was as much for Mommy and Daddy as it was for the toddlers. I'm going to save you a lot of reading time here, whether or not this is a great idea...
Do your mornings look like a scene from Lord of the Rings? Mine usually do. It's a whirlwind fight of the breakfast monsters in the cottage and I was yearning for a more peaceful calm wake up. This usually brings my mind into the cycle of "oh why can't the...
Like many people who live in Ireland, I tend to overlook what is right on my doorstep. This summer we decided to do the Boyne Valley heritage drive. That's two adults and two toddlers exploring parts of Ireland's ancient east. I will say that Carol's book Echoes of...
If you are stuck with kids over the summer holidays it's hard to find places to go. I hold my hands up and say that I have two toddlers 3 and 2 years old and they absolutely loved the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre. This is not a paid for post and this was just a...
Today is my birthday and I'm sitting in the garden listening to the birds. Watching them fly, have dirt baths and knock each other into the pond. In this quiet serenity, my mind always wonders. I don't know if this is something that everyone does but when my birthday...
Tomorrow is International Women's Day and this week I am highlighting women's issues on the blog/podcast. All of these are issues that I have wanted to highlight previously but for some reason or another, I never thought that they would fit into the blog or podcast....
It's a funny thing being born in Ireland in the 1980's. Much of what made the headlines went over my head as a child. My thoughts on this country were always that we were lucky; blessed to have a plentiful supply of food and water, the storms that did hit us...