EimearKelly's Blog

I really love this time of year: there is a hint of spring in the air, a hope for warmer days ahead and it’s time for the Six Nations! Rugby has always been a big part of mine and my husband’s lives. He played and coached for many years with our local club and while I’ve never played myself (I can’t pass a ball to save my life!) I have always enjoyed watching the game. When we met it was...

I really enjoy reading Lucy Kennedy’s Mums Love Lucy blogs here on MummyPages. Her pieces are so honest and I often find myself smiling while thinking: “You’re so right!” Recently I was reading How to feel like yourself again and it reminded me of how much time it took to “feel like myself again” after our children were born. At the time, I wondered if it took me longer to reach this...

So far January has been an exciting month within our family as we celebrated two milestone birthdays. The first was my dad’s 75th birthday and more importantly (no offence, Dad!) we celebrated our daughter’s first birthday. Celebrating a first birthday is an exciting milestone as Baba is no more and The Toddler is soon to emerge, bringing joy, tears, laughter and destruction, judging from our...

This morning I watched my three year old son get so excited when he received postcards from his ‘friend’ Darcy in Australia. As I read them to him he was engrossed in learning all about the new things Darcy got up to. So what’s so special about Darcy? Darcy is a cuddly Dingo and a friend of my brother in Australia. My brother has been living there since September 2007 and the last time he...

I have to say I love Christmas. To me it’s a magical time filled with fond memories of family, love, laughter and great food. This is what I kept in mind when preparing for the first Christmas without our Mum; while it was tough, we wanted to try and capture some of the wonderful memories she gave us in her honour. Our festivities traditionally began on Christmas Eve with Midnight Mass (at 10pm...

Bathing my daughter this evening, I thought about how lucky I am to have two beautiful healthy children; however, I couldn’t help but think we may never have known her. Trying to conceive can be a journey and when my husband and I spoke about having a family, we always said that if we were blessed, it would be lovely to have two children. Our journey to parenthood began when we saw that Big Fat...

Over 18 years ago, my mum passed away at the age of 50. She was diagnosed with a terminal cancer a few months prior. While she fought hard to defy the odds it was a battle she unfortunately was going to lose. I was 19 when she passed away and prior to her diagnosis, I was a typical "I'm not listening" teenager. Our relationship was not that great and upon her diagnosis I tried to make up for...

Today I heard something that frightened me and the fact I wasn’t really surprised made it even worse! I heard a young mother saying she was proud of the fact that her 9-month-old was able to eat a full children’s meal in a well-known fast food restaurant. It really is frightening to think that someone, no matter what their age or background thinks that this is acceptable, let alone something...