Dottie turns 2! Not quite the celebration we expected but all is well now. The days are long but the years are short #lifethisweek
A time for celebrating – Dottie turns 2!
Hip hip hooray, it’s Dottie’s first birthday!
Dottie turns 1! Can you believe it? A grandmother's reflection on the year and Dottie's progress after being born prematurely at 25 weeks.
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New motherhood perspectives in these challenging times
Becoming a new mother is hard enough, then throw in a global pandemic to the mix! Thoughts from a new mother during these times.
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Why involving Grandma in your pregnancy is a good idea – written by a Granny (obviously)
Globetrotting Granny Debs has a new grandbaby on the way and couldn't be happier. Meet Gundoo 🙂
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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart – why I’m taking a blogging break
Read why I’m taking a blogging break - it’s all about family! I’ll be back soon 😊
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Wordless Wednesday: Four generations of specialness
When your youngest turns the big 3-0
When your baby daughter turns the big 30!! An update on my post comparing our lives 🙂 Read on...
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What happens when you have a spectacular daughter out there?
It's time to meet one of my favourite bloggers, Melanie from The Wandering Darlings. I must declare, she also just happens to be my eldest daughter 🙂 Welcome to another edition of People of Interest where I get to share some interesting people with you, my interesting readers. I post these on Tuesdays. And that's …
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Wordless Wednesday: Mother and daughter fun
Mother of the Bride update #4 – the final countdown
Welcome to the latest update from the Mother of the Bride! As I sit here writing this update, the song playing on my random rock selection is The Final Countdown - I kid you not! I was searching for how many days until the big day and that song comes on - how random!!! (Followed …
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What It’s Really Like to be the Mother of the Bride | Bridesmaids Confession
As a mother of three daughters I was asked to write about weddings from the perspective of the Mother of the Bride. I'm thrilled to share it here, hot off the press, from Bridesmaids Confessions. Just in time for Mother's Day next weekend! I'd love you to go and read the story by clicking the …
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MOB fun with B2B – update #3
Welcome to the latest update from the Mother of the Bride! As you probably know by now, my MOB status has been restored with baby daughter's wedding planned for October 2017 - in Fiji! It is a very small intimate affair with only parents, siblings, and a few close friends. We are now looking at less …
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Playing Favourites
Playing favourites with my blog, not my children! As a parent I have always told my three daughters that I don't have favourites and I don't. They all have something unique about them and I love seeing how different they are to each other while at the same time being so similar it scares me! …
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I was a young mother once…
A family of bloggers
I just want you to know that I enjoy blogging immensely. I might not be the most prolific of bloggers, the most read, tweeted or visited blogger in the world, but I am a happy blogger! As someone wise said to me earlier this week, 'The thing to remember about blogging is that there is …
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Hello my name is…awesome!
I don't often get requests for specific posts on my blog but recently I had a request for a post about how our daughters were named. This request came from my youngest daughter after she read a post where I told the story about how I was named Debbie. She wanted to know the story …
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Girls just wanna have fun!
On the subject of FUN: This video shows my daughters and I racing at a trampoline park while on holidays over Christmas. We're not at all competitive! I'm the little one in black just in case you can't pick me! One daughter yells out 'I've won' as she throws herself into the airbags, one does …
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MOB#2 update
Greetings fellow bloggers! You may not know but my MOB status has been restored with baby daughter's wedding planned for October 2017 - in Fiji! I've been told (by guess who?) that I've been very slack in keeping everyone up to date with news of this happy event. Hence this post!! In my last post, The MOB …
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The MOB returns
I'm baaack! My MOB status has been invoked for the second time as baby daughter moves into the countdown zone. And I couldn't be happier! We have a wedding planned for October 2017 in Fiji no less! And I'm told it will be a VERY small affair. So we are in countdown mode and the way this …
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Vintage themed party
Hugh's photo challenge this week is about all things vintage. I was immediately reminded of my daughter's Vintage themed 30th birthday party a few years ago. I made the decision to attend the bash which meant travelling halfway around the world from Australia to England all by myself. It was the right decision. I had an amazing …
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Deb's World 