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I thanked my lucky stars where it helped entertain a bored 2 year old while we waited 2 hours at bag drop back in 2017 on our journey to Sardinia with Mark Warner. We actually lost our Trunki on that holiday but a new one has recently joined our home, pimped up by a very colour conscious 4-year-old. This was no mean feat, FYI, as I was soon to find out, that with 1 billion possible combinations, designing your own Trunki is a serious task for a child with an opinion. Don’t underestimate this feature when you’re walking through a busy airport with a tired 4-year-old & your child’s too old for a , this is a total lifesaver.

life balance is the term used to describe the balance that an individual needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life. That after 3 years of being a single parent, it’s only just struck me that despite my over brimming positivity for the single parents of society, I will never get the perfect work-life balance. Yet the reality is when you’re a single parent doing 100% of the parenting, when the other parent has done the unfathomable and buggered off to live in another country, you know that working full time will be at the detriment to the children. I could look for part-time work and just sacrifice 50% of my work week parenting availability to find my dream part-time job, but that’s proving to be the impossible dream.

“hello! Just checking you are still up for Friday 1st March cinema?” That worrying moment when you realise you’ve agreed to a girls night out but have no recollection of the initial conversation. Must be in What’s App, I open up and find our last conversation, registering how disorganised my forms of communication are and make a mental note to try to allocate one message channel per person

Becoming a mum for the first time can be both exciting and scary in equal measures. I remember it well