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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Covid and Childcare
We live in Brussels and have two daughters, one who is 6 and in her last year of ‘maternelle’ or nursery school, and one is now 2 who is normally at creche (daycare) 4 days a week. In Belgium they re-opened creches as of May 2020 and nursery school age children were allowed back to Read more
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Birth story
My second daughter arrived 11 days early- luckily a couple of days after the Tour de France cycling competition passed near our house otherwise with all the road closures I’m not sure how we would have made it to the hospital! I had an epidural for my second labour whereas I had a natural birth Read more
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One year on..
I haven’t been able to do much of anything recently because our youngest daughter had an ear infection, and then four days later the other daughter had two confirmed covid cases in her class and we had to quarantine until she could be tested (thankfully it was negative), and then two days after they’d both Read more
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Working from home
Spending a lot of time in our kitchen/dining room/office at the moment.. Read more
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