Northern Mum
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I'm Jane - a working single mum of three. We have had our share of health problems in the last couple of years and I use this space to share our experiences and keep my sanity. I write a lot about type1 diabetes and Hip Dyplasia and I try whenever possible to make my readers laugh.
Northern Mum
1M ago
I blinked and it was done. Just like they told me. And as promised, I don’t know at what point the days turned to months and months to years. All I know is it passed by in a second, yet some times felt like eternity. School is over, the pair of you are in final…
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Northern Mum
1M ago
Whilst being prepared to fully embrace the fun at all times. Sometimes I make errors in judgement. Last week I made an error…. Whilst on the gorgeous island of Rhodes, my youngest celebrated her birthday and we had an afternoon of adventure to mark the occasion. We went paragliding; that was pretty fun, there were…
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Northern Mum
2M ago
Happy birthday to my third child, my rainbow baby, my gorgeous, heart wrenchingly perfect Libby-Sue. It’s almost impossible to conceive that you are 14, the running joke in the house is you are only 5 and often I take a sharp intake of breath when a young woman hurtles downstairs in the morning, late as…
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Northern Mum
2M ago
I must be a grown up, I have two children who are legal adults and another who looks perilessly close to no longer being my baby. The irritation I feel when I remember women my age looking into my pram that was bursting with babies, wagging their fingers and saying “cherish them, they won’t be…
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Northern Mum
1y ago
Its been a lovely Christmas. I always find this time of year curious, as the scramble to see folk you are available to see all year round becomes pronounced. It makes me question why I don’t make more of an effort in the year, and for 2023, I think that needs to be my focus. …
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Northern Mum
1y ago
It really has been a big week, in fact it has been a huge couple of weeks, for so many reasons. The eclectic nature of my work has sent me up and down the country, from Scotland to Bristol. The busyness of my household has left me absent from my sanity of the gym. …
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Northern Mum
2y ago
It is like being stuck in a Groundhog Day of Catchphrase. ”Say what you see, just fricking say what you see!” Easier said than done when you are mid forties and firmly gripped in a mid life mind mashing menopause. Today I tried to ask my daughter to pass me the milk. It went something…
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Northern Mum
2y ago
A decade a year someone told me I would visit Cornwall once and become addicted. I scoffed at the idea of holidaying in the same place multiple times. I have wandering feet, I ache to explore, one place in the Uk would never hold my attention. I’m writing this on the decking of my…
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Northern Mum
2y ago
It’s the dream.. To holiday in the UK when it’s hot… This week – we are living that dream…. But behind all the sun kissed Instagram photos, the constant sweet smell of sun cream, and the dream of swimming in the sea without being wrapped in neophane – there lies a dark truth about holidaying…
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Northern Mum
2y ago
It’s hard to describe the emotions that flood through you when you get surgery dates for your kids. It’s hard to explain why you are sad, worried, about an operation that isn’t life threatening. I’ll try, It’s the knowledge that at an age when life should be all about sleepovers, playing out, and laughing your…
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