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By Little Mummy, March 16, 2010 12:15 am

Some people say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, I reckon they are the mad ones.

This is an interview with myself.

If you could live with only one cd for the rest of your life what would it be?

Definitely my Ultimate Dirty Dancing, it has every piece of music from the film in chronological order. I love it.

What are you most proud of?

My family and my marriage. Most of us appreciate how difficult it is to be a mum, but many overlook how difficult it is to be in a successful marriage.

What do you regret?

I regret worrying over the things that don’t matter, I’ve spent too much life worrying.

What worries you now?

Failure.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Graduating from university, I’ve always wanted to go, always wanted to get a degree so that’s what I’m going to do.

Where do you want to go on holiday next?

I want to go to Switzerland for a week of ski-ing. I have this romantic idea of ski-ing in beautiful surroundings with evenings spent in a wooden chalet with a ‘real’ fire and fondue for supper.

What would you like for next Mother’s Day?

A lie in, a cuddle, breakfast in bed, and walk on the beach followed by fish and chips

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By Little Mummy, March 10, 2010 11:24 pm

In The News

Glasgow City Council have paid £95,000 for a logo for the Commonwealth Games made up of the primary colours (plus green), the letter G and a few circles, hardly value is it. I’m a big fan of the Olympics and these other large sporting events and don’t usually begrudge the funding at all. I do like a bit of value for money though and this overly simplistic rip off logo (apparently the logo is very similar to the logo of some arts council, shown on left of pic). I’d rather have seen the ‘project’ farmed out to the schools and have the kids come up with something, and give them the ninety-five grand.

Source: The Scotsman

Closer To Home

To the prat that overtook me at high speed, next to a central reservation, metres before a red light which you ploughed through whilst displaying ‘L’ plates thanks for nearly killing me you loser. I hope you got to wherever you were going in such a rush, I can’t imagine you’ll be driving for too much longer.

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By Little Mummy, March 1, 2010 3:41 am

After writing ‘Oh what a perfect day..’ last week there were lots of great comments as always, this one stood out to me as needing further discussion.

Tracey D says…

…perfect days are created when we seek out the best vibes of the day….ignoring the worst. Easy to do? rarely, but when you do, perfect!

I actually quite like this idea, there’s a perfect day out there every day it’s finding it that’s the problem challenge.

“Seeking out the vibes” to me says that you actively need to align yourself with the vibes or even change what you’re doing, it goes beyond ‘finding the good’ in the day, if you want to make it better you have to change something, which harks back to the saying I like;

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

I talked about it here – Do Something Different Today

So what do you think, is there a perfect day out there everyday?

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By Little Mummy, February 24, 2010 11:48 pm

Most days are a mixture of busy, hard, fulfilling, quiet, happy, sad, angry, hopeful, but occasionally, very occasionally there is one day that is the perfect day, it does’t happen often and when it does you need to savour it.

On this day you wake up and feel rested, food tastes a little better than usual, and your hair miraculously looks great with minimal effort.

You visit the shops and all the clothes you try on make you look slimmer, younger, funkier and they’re all on offer, you actually leave the shop feeling like you’ve robbed them blind.

On your perfect day you find a lovely little coffee shop that isn’t at all busy, there are no children and you’re able to sit for an age sipping coffee and reading the amazing book that just happened to be poking out of the shelf just by where you where walking. As you sit and ponder this coming together of the universe to create this perfect day your favourite song plays on the radio. With a hop, skip and a jump you return to your perfect little family and have a lovely dinner and go to bed feeling immensely happy.

Monday was a perfect day.

A day to savour and enjoy, because most days are a mixture of busy, hard, fulfilling, quiet, happy, sad, angry, hopeful…

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By Little Mummy, February 24, 2010 1:12 am

In the last part I mentioned that my being made ‘redundant’ (code for; we don’t want some sick person to deal with so we are going to find a get out clause that can’t get us into trouble) was actually a positive turning point in my life.

I reflected on the jobs I’d had, where my real passions lay, and decided to take a 30% wage decrease to work in a nursery. I enjoyed working with the children especially thinking up creative activities for them to do. I worked with the 17 month – 3 year age group which was challenging and rewarding.

Home life was great and Alex and I began to discuss the possibility of starting a family. We were both concerned about my crohns and how it may affect fertility etc.. I was told by doctors that it may take longer to fall pregnant (up to two years) so after six months of intense discussion we decided to go for it. It must have been fate because almost immediately I found out I was pregnant.

The pregnancy went well but I became extremely fatigued toward the end, ten hour days chasing after toddlers took their toll and I decided to finish work early, in December 2005. The last few weeks of pregnancy saw me hospitalized with pre-eclampsia before the doctors decided to deliver my baby via c-section on the first day of the 37th week.

On 4th February 2006, my brother’s 21st birthday, my beautiful daughter Erin was born. Alex and I couldn’t have been happier. I decided at the end of my maternity leave not to return to work preferring to be with Erin as much as possible. I decided to start blogging as an outlet for my creativity, new found knowledge, and as a document of our experiences. I’d never have guessed that blogging would create so many experiences. DisneyWorld, Butlins, Port Aventura, chocolate tasting, Wii reviewer, trip to Inverness, Dyson dancing… It’s certainly been a journey! My blog has documented the highs (see last sentence!) and the lows. In 2009 we also decided to try for another baby, we fell pregnant twice but it wasn’t meant to be, so we bought a puppy instead

In a weird sort of way blogging has helped me to explore who I am and what I like, and what I like (oddly) is marketing and entrepreneurship. In April I’ll complete my HNC in Business Studies and in October I’ll start my marketing management and entrepreneurship degree at a local university.

Life’s very exciting at the moment, and as I said in a recent post I already have everything I need to make me happy so everythingelse is a bonus now, I’m just going to enjoy the journey

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By Little Mummy, February 23, 2010 1:59 am

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying watching the Winter Olympics, I usually watch the figure skating and sometimes the curling but this year I’ve discovered some new events to watch including snowboard cross (a-mazing) and skeleton.

The athletes are truly awesome but on at least three occasions the commentator has referred to a female athlete as a ‘pin up girl’. Apparently Lindsay Vonn is the pin up girl of downhill and Melissa Hollingsworth the Canadian pin up girl of the winter games. Is it only me that thinks this is quite wrong? I’m no feminist but the last time I checked I was watching the Olympics, the greatest sporting contest on earth, a gathering of the world’s finest athletes coming together to compete as ‘athletes’. Shouldn’t we be focusing on their physical strength, their skill, their awesome abilities at what ever event their competing in rather than their aesthetic appeal. Quite frankly I couldn’t care less if a competitor looks likes the back end of a bus, if they can compete and conquer the best athletes the world has to offer then that’s all I really care about.

Can we please keep talk of pin up girls for Miss World and other beauty pageants, the Olympics is a sporting competition, let’s not dilute it with this kind of commentary.

Would you agree?

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By Little Mummy, February 21, 2010 11:48 am

So my lovely husband offered to make me a meal for my birthday over his long weekend off, but rather than suffer the mess I ‘persuaded’ him that a supermarket dine in option might be worth a shot. Of course he agreed quickly realising that this would merely involve him switching on the oven and removing foil.

Tesco had a deal on that included a main course, a side, a desert and a bottle of wine for £9, however I noticed that at the bottom of the chiller in the ‘dine in’ area beneath the food options were a six pack of glass bottles of coke and ‘fancy’ fresh juice – you know, the type that costs a small fortune. I assumed that these were the non-alcoholic options for the dine in deal, with them being in the right sort of price bracket and in the same cabinet as the meal options, but to be on the safe side (to stop myself from being ripped off!) I decided to double check at the checkout. You know where this is going right? The nice checkout assistant checked with one of the price checker people and sure enough they were not part of the dine in deal. I explained how misleading it was that these drink items were in the same cabinet and a few other customers around me nodded and mumbled in agreement. I also went on to argue the point that it was wrong for the dine in deal to only include wine, after all there are many people who don’t drink alcohol for various reasons and what about under 18’s are they exempt from dining in? To be fair the price checker did let me have the coke as part of the deal but I feel as though my very valid points fell on deaf ears.

I’m pretty sure that Marks & Spencer have non-alcoholic options as part of their deal, so come on Tesco you need to raise your game and start listening to what your customers are telling you!

Number 1 – Stop misleading loyal customers by putting drinks products in with deals where the drinks aren’t included. We aren’t stupid and we know that this is a marketing ploy to get us to spend more.

Number 2 – Don’t discriminate against those who don’t want to drink alcohol. You’re quick enough to haul up under agers and even some parents now if they try and purchase alcohol yet you aren’t offering non alcohol options as part of your dine in deal. Come on, a little bit of respect for those that put you where you are. We can shop elsewhere you know…

Number 3 – Listen to what your customers are saying to you instore, it’ll only allow you to sell more and make more money!

I championed you on twitter when one of your delivery drivers trekked through snow to get to me the day before christmas day you know. I also spend thousands at your stores every year. Admit you’ve got it wrong and get those cabinets sorted, better still get those drinks included in the deal!

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By Little Mummy, February 19, 2010 10:30 am

We’ve lived in our house for over two years now, we were fortunate when we moved in that there were no major jobs needing doing to the interior. Unfortunately the same could not be said for the garden (front and back) though not a jungle they were definitely a little unloved shall we say, and I’m ashamed to say that they remain so.

You see we meant to work on the garden during our first summer in the house but the weather was so poor we barely made a start. Then last year we got fired up, we bought tools and some gravel, I think we may even have cut the grass… and then we decided to go to DisneyWorld, and well, time and money ran away from us. So this year is the year, we’re absolutely determined to start loving the garden and now with Daisy’s arrival we have more incentive than ever. I’m imagining long summer days gardening with dog and child lovingly frolicking, followed by warm summer evening barbecues (do these days exist, or is that just the movies?).

Out the back we need to empty the pond and refill with soil to make a nice vegetable patch. We want to move and paint the fences, replace gravel and provide the grass with some ‘lawn care‘ at the moment it’s merely serving as Daisy’s toilette…poor lawn. We want to re-establish the patio that is cowering under the weeds and maybe even plant something in the borders?

Love the Garden is an online treasure chest of gardening info from lawn care to growing your own, they even have a gardening blog. I may well subscribe, at least it’s a start!

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By Little Mummy, February 18, 2010 5:01 am

This post written for the Writing Workshop under prompt one – “Write an honest description of what you look like right now”

I’m slouched on the sofa, on my feet are what can only be described as faux eskimo boot slippers (Tesco £8) which have been *cough* lovingly chewed by the puppy . Moving up, a pair of dorothy perkins black ‘long shorts’ reveal white stubbly legs. I have my hurley top on from America, it’s not the image I had of myself wearing it, in my head I’d wear it with jeans and uber cool trainers and look ultra funky, yeah, not so much. Over the top I have an aqua colored hooded zipper which I bought from Aeropastale also while in America, it’s baggy and comfortable. My face lacks make up and my hair is partially gel’d. I bet my husband can’t wait to get home

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By Little Mummy, February 17, 2010 1:30 am

*No animals were harmed whilst taking this picture