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This time last year, Loretta and I were reading our Twitter feed and it was full of excited references to the upcoming #BritMumslive.   We were not attending.  We were jealous! This year, thanks to Look Again we have do not have to look on with jealousy, because we too are going to BritMums Live! Look Again is an online shop, perfect for ...

Many of you will know that we have been involved in the run up to the Kensington Mums Motherhood Exhibition event which was the brainchild of the lovely Dina from Kensington Mums and Pippa from Story of a Mum.  Well after all the hard work and preparation the big day finally came on June 7th 2013. Excited to have a night ...

Writer's block; as bloggers I am sure we've all had it. That moment when you need to write something and your brain will not engage. it usually happens when I have left a post until the last minute or am super tired. In my current state of having a 5 week old baby I can envisage this happening more often ...

Welcome to part 7 in our series of inspiring mums who have turned their hobby into a business.  Today Carol Smith tells us how an idea to log her journey with her baby daughter became a successful business for her. 1) What is your hobby? Blogging 2) Was this a hobby you started when you became a mother or something you have always ...

The lovely people at Virgin Money Travel gave us some tickets to London Zoo and asked us to go enjoy ourselves and write about it - an offer we were not about to refuse! We could not have had more perfect weather for the day with a clear blue sky, bright sunshine and crisp, fresh air.  London Zoo is situated in ...

We’ve never run our own Meme at MTAM before so I thought it was about time we did and what better theme than in the run up to the day that celebrates one of our best achievements and roles in life – Motherhood!  I read a touching article in this morning’s Metro on the train and these are the questions ...

Ooh we do love a good meme here at MTAM and this week we were tagged by the lovely ‘Mummy of many talents’ (Claire Sarcone aka @clairelouise82) So here are Claire’s 11 questions that I’m (Loretta) to answer: 1)    If you had the power to make one thing better, what would it be? Ok so I’m going to sound a bit like a ...

We got round to watching this week’s Doctor Who on Sunday evening. After a hectic, but fun family Sunday with old friends, which entailed stopping toddlers from fighting and trying to make them eat, we settled in for an iPlayer moment and a hot chocolate. (It’s just so rock and roll in our household!).  I was trying not to keeping ...