She Who Mums Wins

When we bought our house 2 years ago it was a multi coloured feast for the eyes, I don’t mean a splash of mustard here and blue there, we are talking wall to wall (and floor) purple, turquoise walls with orange skirting in another room and an orange room with lime green alcove. I almost forgot to mention the hall, inspired by Rupert the bear, red carpet and yellow walls. We saw the house and fell in love with its period features, size and potential and for the next 18 months focussed on updating and neutralising, creating a calm and welcoming home that we love. Fast forward to Summer 2016 and our beautiful daughter Rose arrived, not wearing a lot of pink myself the clothes I, and friends and family, bought for her were shades of yellow, grey, baby blue, with a smattering of pink and coral here and there. Her nursery is so far in neutral shades and I loved choosing calming toys and comforters that I thought would bring her joy - not deliberately, I was just walking around the shops ch

As we enter 2017 Rose is now 5 months old and I am starting to feel marginally more confident as a mum in a myriad of ways, and Rosie has come on leaps and bounds over the last couple of weeks and we have had a lot of laughs over the Christmas break. I've noticed that Rosie has reached an age where we are now expected to see some significant milestones... Has she rolled over? Have we started on food? Will we be doing purees or baby led? Is Rose starting to sit up unaided? With all of these developmental milestones now expected I have felt a weight of responsibility that it is our job to make sure Rosie grows into a healthy, well balanced individual with the right level of safety, independence and happiness. Obviously I knew we would need to do all of this, but I hadn't expected to feel borderline stressed about it! Liam's reaction is that obviously she will do all of these things eventually, and he is quite right, but as the person with Rosie all day I feel it is m