Family sterotypes have somewhat been washed away over the generations and family dynamics are now complex, diverse and difficult to pigeon hole.  For us, we are very much an evening and weekend family.  Responsibility doesn’t sit solely with either hubs or myself, we very much share tasks around the house and take a quite balanced approach on the family front too.  When it comes to extra curricular activies, we take turns to attend those that are past MM’s bedtime, but for those that aren’t we all go.  It might sound corny, but our family is our hobby and we like to spend as much of it as a little unit of 4 as much as we can.Continue reading

This isn’t the first post I have written about how particular I am, or how I struggle to acknowledge when I’m doing something really well… I’m starting to wonder if it’s something that will always linger on in the background.  I wonder how many other people constantly put themselves under the microscope and only see the things that ‘could have been done better’.  Surely there is a little bit of the perfectionist that lives in us all?Continue reading