• Home
  • ABOUT
  • PARENTHOOD
  • Fertility Stories
  • CONTACT
  • Shop
July 21, 2020

The 11 positive affirmations I used during my baby’s heart surgery

This last week has endlessly thrown up some digital memories of this time a year ago on our phones and social media. Literally a year ago today, July 20th, we were discharged from hospital, 4 days after Elodie underwent open heart surgery. I cannot believe it’s a year. I cannot believe that one minute she was in a hospital theatre with a machine acting as…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
June 15, 2020

Mums in lockdown; Parenting, Play Trays and Poo

Hi, I’m Kat, mummy to Davey just turned 4 and Cleo 23 months, trying to get through this lockdown just like every other mummy/parent out there. We’ve had some highs and some lows but I think we are struggling through (with the help of vodka) as best we can and I’m going to share some of it with you… so here goes!  So, until last…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
June 8, 2020

Mums in lockdown; Working mum edition

I’m so delighted to share this account of lockdown life from my lovely friend Vicki who is a mum to a 2 year old (‘E’), a wife (to ‘T’) and a secondary school teacher. Yikes. The juggle is real. —————————————— ‘Find a new hobby; learn something new’. Pah. Ok then. How about we just focus on getting through this s**t one day at a time.…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
June 3, 2020

Mums in lockdown – up, down, up, down; tales from my seat on the Coronacoaster

Two people have said ‘coronacoaster’ to me so far today and YES, AIN’T THAT THE TRUTH. Those who follow me on Instagram will know that I’ve been keen to share some stories from mums during lockdown. And I thought that I couldn’t really do that without my own babbling account of it first. So here I am. I’m currently sat in our summerhouse at the…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
January 3, 2020

My go to toddler recipes – including vegan and veggie friendly

Happy New Year! I’m currently in the midst of the countdown to normal life resuming, where I head back to work and baby back to the childminder a couple of days a week. And part of being in that zone sees me peering into the freezer – specifically the drawer where all the baby grub is stored – and doing a stock check of what…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
November 23, 2019

Those mother glances – a poem

Not the disapproving ones you might read about in books or see in films. Not simply the ones with eyes misty in love. But the room temperature checkers, the comfort toy locators, the ‘are they about to tumble’ surveyors, the ingredients stock checkers, the time keepers, the weather gaugers, the rear view mirror performers, the bath water height measurers, the rash investigators, the ‘are they…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
November 22, 2019

HOW I GET THROUGH SOLO PARENTING WHEN MY OTHER HALF IS AWAY

So, maybe I’ve mentioned it before? Once or twice? Ok, possibly 1,367 times; my husband has a job that sees him travel a fair bit. Sometimes long haul, sometimes closer to home. Things get plonked in his diary, sometimes at short notice. And thank goodness, as those things have single handedly paid the bills for much longer than expected given our baby needed heart surgery…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
July 9, 2019

Toddler grub – 14 months old

So I haven’t used ‘weaning’ in the title of this blog because…are we now weaned? We’re off formula so is that it done? We have completed the weaning mission? Who knows. Since last writing about baby and her food exploits though, a few things have occurred: She had a birthday cake – refined sugar free, more info below She has morning and afternoon snacks Bye…

Read More »

0 comments so far.
Share:
April 20, 2019

Why we kept our pregnancy 100% secret on social media

I cannot believe it was a year ago since I packed up for maternity leave. I’d wanted a nice run into having baby and getting everything ready knowing I could like a lot of people do, bolt accrued holiday on at the end of the leave in case baby came late. At this time, John, Rupes (dog) and I were in our rental house while…

Read More »

3 comments so far.
Share:
March 23, 2019

Weaning, part two; 10.5 months

Hokay so here we are again with a further instalment of ‘making it up as I go along’, AKA weaning. Only this time, I am enjoying it more than 3 months ago. Don’t get me wrong, I still have days where I’m like ‘we’ve got NOTHING she can eat in the house, she’s going to STARVE’ and moments where I’m all ‘why oh why am…

Read More »

1 comments so far.
Share:
OLDER POSTS →

Hi! Thanks for swinging by…You’ll see posts about being a new mum after years of trying and fumbling through all that, some bits about wellbeing and likely a house extension project because are you even a blogger if you don’t do up a house? I live a little north of London with Mr G, Elodie Willow our precious bubs and Rupert the mini sausage dog.

Social

  • View vickygooden’s profile on Twitter
  • View vickygooden’s profile on Instagram

Categories

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 12 other subscribers

Search

Archives

copyright @ pastel dreams. blog design by kotrynabassdesign