I began my Diary of a Housewife cartoon series in 2015 when I was pregnant with our first child. We now have two daughters and these are all the blog posts and cartoons I’ve done about parenting and being pregnant in reverse chronological order.
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Crafting challenges
Our younger daughter Isabel is generally very good-natured, but crafting brings out a demonic side to her that is quite terrifying. WHAT IS A 3-SIDED BOOKMARK?????? WHY DO YOU NEED ONE????? YOU ARE FOUR, YOU CANNOT READ!!! Read more
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Potato Pets
I thought ‘Don’t throw root vegetables’ was one of those unwritten societal rules that I would never need to say to my children, but apparently not. Read more
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Me in 15 years time.. (part 2)
Some days I am more positive than others. This was not one of those days. How are my children going to judge me in the future? Are they just going to have vague memories of me nagging them to turn off the lights and not use so much paper for their art projects and wonder… Read more
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Birthday tantrums
She had a version of this tantrum 100’s of times in the month long lead up to her birthday party. In the end I was allowed to come to the party THAT I ORGANISED. Read more
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Staring into the abyss
My daughters currently go to different schools and because the French speaking schools in Belgium changed their holiday timetable but the Flemish and International schools didn’t, they have very different holiday schedules. From mid February to the end of May I had one or the other daughter home on ‘holiday’ or one or the other… Read more
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