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Creative Ways to Personalize Your Child’s School Routine

June 2, 2025 By Ellen Leave a Comment

A new school year will bring structure, growth and of course, learning. It can also bring chaos for many families. Do rushed breakfast to forgotten folders sound familiar? It makes weekday mornings feel like more like a sprint than a fresh start. Adding a few personalized touches to your child’s daily school routine can make […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: back to school, parenting, School

The love of laundry – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

The love of laundry   Your clothes are puddled, shorts, pants, socks nested. Pocket with a lolly stick broken in three place and two seashells, not from the same creature. It smells of your outdoors body. The evidence of slide tackles will need that pink stuff, so I rub it in with my finger. Later […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, childhood, laundry, life, parenting, prose poetry

A mother’s roll – 100 words

June 10, 2023 By Ellen

A mother’s roll   Mum to be New mum Gina Ford mum Breastfeeding mum Mastitis mum Formula mum Working mum Sign language mum Baby-led weaning mum Playgroup rota mum Guilty mum Swimming lessons mum Neurodiversity assessment mum Fight their corner mum Single mum Shouty mum Sleepover mum Leave the office on the dot mum Scout […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, motherhood, parenting, poem

Lucky – 100 words

March 19, 2023 By Ellen

Lucky On Mother’s Day with the flowers, chocolates, breakfast in bed (or gin, manly hugs, and lunchtime pancakes this year), it’s easy to sugar coat the celebration. ‘Love you mummy,’ tiny wishes and the sharp, sharp pangs for the lost mums, the never-to-be children. Motherhood is hard and messy, and we know all about the […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, Mother's Day, motherhood, parenting

Quibblings – 100 words

February 23, 2023 By Ellen

Quibblings There are many things they don’t tell you when you share your happy news, like the way the love hits you like a punch while the responsibility is terrifying, that privacy is a thing of the past, and one day you will be That parent, no matter what you promise. But they never mention […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, children, creative writing, parenting, siblings

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