We don’t want to hammer Covid19 into our kids too much, preferring to tell them what they need to know in order to understand why they’re not at school/ seeing friends and family or doing anything relatively ‘normal’ right now. But having said...
Ahhh, the good old days. If only we were happily on holiday now. Instead we’ve had a good clear out at home recently, and wanted to put together a list of games/toys that make the cut – the ones that capture our kids attention spans for longer than 60...
It’s Mothers Day next weekend (like you didn’t know) and we’ve had so many emails asking if we’re putting together a Mothers Day gift guide. Hell no! We’re not ‘gift guide’ kind of girls; we hate reading them and we hate putting them together (we both spend a loooong...
A few months ago I did a little before and after on Instastories but I thought that I’d pop it here too so that’s it’s always here to refer back to. Mainly because I’m still getting lots of DM’s about the life-changing clothes airer! Our...
So writing this post 18 months into life with two kids seems a bit silly but recently we’ve been getting a lot of DM’s from you about when it all clicks. We don’t sugarcoat around here because that is helpful to no one and honestly, looking back at the time when Alfie...
If you don’t know that we’re big-time Homesense fans (Gemma in particular could be called a little obsessed) then where have you been?! We’ve both been shopping there for years, and Gemma remembers the first thing she bought there 9 years ago –...
This post is waaaay over due. But whenever we story from the boys bedrooms we get asked where certain things are – and then it’s a complete mess because we’ve been playing in there so I can’t take any good pics. So while they’re at...
Not to sound like a total misery but I hated pregnancy both times. I suffered from a variety of symptoms when I was pregnant with my daughter Belle, like sickness, dizziness, fainting, a cracked rib and nose bleeds. This time around, when I was pregnant with my son, I...
People told me that second births are fast but I never expected that my second baby, Alfie, would be born in one hour and forty minutes. They also told me that second babies are early but he proved them wrong and arrived seven days late. It wasn’t smooth sailing...
Hello and Happy New Year – oh, and welcome to the fancy new This Is Mothership website!! Hurrah! Our (other) baby has had a makeover of its own. As well as looking fancy, it’s far easier to navigate now. When we first launched, our two main pillars were...
It’s safe to say we go away A LOT with our families. We both have done so since our eldest were babies. Belle came on her first holiday at 10 weeks old and I think it’s made it so much easier for us that we did it with her from so young, rather than...
First things first, we have had this blog in our drafts ever since December 20th 2017. It is now August 2018. That is how long we have been meaning to finish this post. But ya know. Life. Babies. Yadda yadda. Anyway, we’ve been meaning to get this up for...
We promised that we would do this post for you. We get asked so often how we get around London with Ace and Alfie so here are our top tips. Practise makes perfect. The first time will feel like such a mission, but the more often you do it the easier it gets.We only go...
With four babies between us, we feel perfectly qualified to give good pram advice. Our top tip is (surprisingly) substance over style when it comes to prams. Yes, you could go for the one that is the most popular, the one that looks super chic or the one that...
We all know the basics when it comes to having a baby – babygrows, bottles, bibs blah blah but there are some larger pieces of equipment that we couldn’t have made it through the last five months without. Most of these we used for both babies 1 and 2, but...
![Lift Selfies: A Series
Are you normal or can you go in a lift without taking a picture 📸
TIM through the years:
Pic 1: the lesser spotted This Is Fathership ❤️
Pic 2: our first ever lift selfie, circa 2016
Pic 3: The day we recorded the audio version of our book
Pic 4: Our fave gold lift
Pic 5 - 7: Red lips, fluffy coats and some flowers
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