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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Stay very still..
My daughters are nearly 8 and 3 and a half years old and they play together so little that when do it’s like a miraculous sighting of a rare bird. Read more
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All the small things..
Trying to decide which toddler request you need to draw the line at for your own sanity and so they don’t think of you as their personal slave, and so you can get whatever it is they are stalling against (bedtime/dinner time/brushing teeth time..) done is so hard . They are all so small and… Read more
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Parenting pep talks
Sometimes I feel like I need some kind of parenting coach to get me through the daily routine. Read more
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Her little sayings
I don’t want to forget all her little sayings so I tried to draw them. Think my favourite made up word of hers is ‘alonely’. ‘ Too much’ she uses as if it’s a defined quantity, and she uses ‘for to’ to construct many of her sentences and ‘am are!’ instead of I am. Because… Read more
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Meeting up with friends who have kids in winter..
Aargh when you have kids someone is always ill! As a consequence my social life during winter consists almost entirely of standing in the drizzle at a playground chatting to other parents in the short window one has before someone’s child screams “I’m cold! I want to go home!”/it rains. Read more
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