Green Man White Man
In case you hadn’t yet noticed, I’m now living in Toronto. I can’t stop talking about how much I love it here and feel like the ultimate “smug married” and don’t even care. Last week had the first day this […]
Am I happy about the last day of home school?
A year ago I was in Singapore visiting family and marvelling at how empty the streets were. How great it was that I didn’t have to queue for any tourist attractions, had enough space to lie spread-eagled on the floor […]
The African Adventure
Introduction My 7 year old daughter has written a story. We hope you like it… The African Adventure by Amma Watson “Hmmm where shall we go this time?” said Max. “Maybe we should go there” said Lilly. They both put […]
Being happy during a pandemic
It’s quite clear that 2020 has been a total car crash of a year. And it’s not over by any stretch of the imagination. Unless the new vaccine is the fastest acting one ever invented, 2021 is in all likelihood […]
How to be happy when you’re so tired you could eat your own eyeballs
I can count on one hand the number of uninterrupted full night’s sleeps I have had in the last 7 years. Funnily enough my oldest child’s 7th birthday is this week. This is one of those correlation does indeed equal […]
You know her best… Do I though?!
Of all the things people tend to say to new mothers, “you know her best” is probably the one that stuck with me as one of the more bizarre. The midwife who came to visit us at home the day […]
Furloughed Folks: do what you need to do
Touch wood; so far I have been so ridiculously in the 1% during this pandemic. Of course it has been hard for my family but in the grand scheme of things we have had it easy. Nothing illustrates this more […]
Why Black Lives Matter To Me
I have been quiet on social media and on the blog recently. During lockdown I’ve struggled like many people have struggled. Struggled with working from home, struggled with isolation, struggled with being a parent at this most challenging time. I […]
I wish I had said something
If you follow my Instagram @misohappy_blog you may have seen that I went to Pregnant Then Screwed Live last weekend. It is an annual conference bringing together like minded people who have become parents and are now looking for ways […]
What I wish someone had told me when I became a mother
Like almost all parents I know, there are so many things I wish I’d known when I became a mother for the first time. There is so much advice out there and most of it is contradictory so the only […]