“Go big or go large,” that was our motto. So go big we went indeed and decided to take HB with us on husband’s work trip. To Australia. It’s no secret that the flight was my biggest worry, especially with HB having a constantly blocked nose due to his deviated septum. This is a little…
HB EATS: Simple Pancake Recipe for Babies
Hungry Bear likes to eat EVERYTHING. Ok, so that’s a lie – he very much doesn’t like cold mashed potato and broccoli but I don’t know anyone who does. I’ve been finding it hard making food which both he and us adults can eat. UNTIL, that was, I experimented with pancake recipes for Healthy Living…
The Snackoletto
What do you get when you combine traditional Italian flavours with British crumpet? The Snackoletto! It’s loosely based on the traditional dish acciughe sotto pesto, but takes a fraction of the time to prepare. Crumpets are a particular favourite snack of mine; I have fond memories of dousing them in butter and savouring biting into…
HB goes swimming for the first time
As I looked in the mirror, my hair wet and tangled and my foot slightly damp after I’d jammed a sock on without really drying properly, I adjusted my hurriedly thrown on jumper and there it glinted. A single white hair. Or as my sister calls them, ‘unicorn hairs’ (I love her for this). There…
Dear HB, please go to sleep – getting a newborn to sleep
The one thing that I remember from pre-parent life is everyone warning me about the lack of sleep. “Say goodbye to lie-ins!” they said, almost gleefully. HB is now almost 3 months old and we’ve had a roller coaster of a ride with his sleep. Suffice to say, there were times when we awoke only…
My First Post-HB Fitness Session
Every since discovering I was pregnant (it was confirmed in Thailand, after a suspicious week of activity in Burma last year) to say I’ve taken fitness easy is an understatement. For nine and a half long months, I’ve gone from working out several times a week to cautiously breaking into a sweat at a few…
