This article originally appeared in my newsletter, the Only Teethin’ Monday Mail. If you’d like early access to similar articles plus recommendations for useful resources to help you find success on your own terms, make sure you sign up! (form is on the homepage). Thank you! I’ll let you into a little secret: the way I’ve been feeling recently is exactly why I wanted to…
It’s just occurred to me that I first started writing these updates when Ted was seven months old, and he’s now 21 months, so I’m giving myself a little pat on the back for sticking with them for so long. Sure, they’ve mostly been sleep-deprived rambles about morphing into Sybil Fawlty and how I worried I’d stunted Ted’s development by holding one leg and not…
Before we start, I’d like to clarify that I haven’t taken to referring to myself in the third person. Fear not. (Thought I’d clear that up, on the off-chance you were worried that I’d decided to refer to myself only as ‘Laura’ – and not ‘me’ or ‘I’ – from now on.) This post is actually called ‘Laura & Ted’s Top Picks’ because ‘Mine &…
Because I’m a nosey parker, I love reading ‘spending diaries’ on other websites and blogs (check out Refinery29’s series, for example), taking a peek at what other people blow their cash on. I therefore thought I’d create my own – for me and for any fellow nosey parkers out there. I also thought it might make me more ‘mindful’ – overused word, sorry – about…
I recently launched a group called The Standout Set, inspired by the amazing women in my hometown in Yorkshire who are creating their own businesses and launching their own projects / ‘side hustles’. The idea behind The Standout Set is to build an awesome, supportive network to help counteract the self-doubt and/or loneliness that can sometimes be a by-product of being self-employed, or of trying…
This is a post about a midwife appointment I’ve just attended, yet it’s also about how we know ourselves better than anyone and need to trust ourselves more in all facets of life, so bear with, won’t you? I’ve just got home from my 16 week midwife appointment. It should have been a bog-standard, unremarkable appointment to take my blood pressure and review my recent…
I wasn’t 100% sure about writing about pregnancy on here. I’ve written about pregnancy already, of course – BUT my blog posts about all things up-the-duff were written post-event, months and months after Ted’s arrival, when it felt OK and safe to be writing about it. Now I’m pregnant again (surprise, for anyone who knows me and didn’t know!), I had to think twice about…
This time six years ago, I was in the early stages of launching my own PR & copywriting consultancy. As I’ve touched on previously, at that stage in my life I’d recently moved back to the UK – and to my hometown – after living and working in Sydney, Australia for almost three years. I’d loved Sydney, and met some amazing people there. Yet my…
Towards the end of last year, I set up a group called The Standout Set. It’s inspired by the amazing women in my hometown in Yorkshire who are creating their own businesses and launching their own projects / ‘side hustles’. My personal experience of ‘going it alone’ as a business owner is that it is BRILLIANT and completely WORTH IT, but that it can get…
Life, eh? Last week was one of those weeks. The ones where you can’t do much other than surrender to life and its mysterious workings, and hope that you don’t end up singing that Des’ree song that rhymes ‘ghost’ with ‘toast’. I’d had very high hopes for last week. Going into the week, I felt like I was starting to get a bit of momentum…
Of all of life’s trials and tribulations, I know that the topic of kids’ clothing isn’t that much of a big deal. I realise it’s a big old First World Problem, as they say, to be even bemoaning the fact that, if I want to buy my son some new joggers, then I’ll probably have to choose between a pair that have trucks on them…
This year, I’m celebrating six years as a business owner – hurraaahhhhh! – and for the majority of that time, I’ve worked from home. Mostly, I absolutely love it. I know I work best when I get to work on my own terms, and find it easiest to get in that state of flow – when I’m completely consumed by the task at hand –…
Ah, playgroups. Lots of fun for little ones. Not always so much fun for mums. Some of them are GREAT. The ones that have a generous offering of biscuits and cakes, and include a good sing-a-long, featuring all 13 verses of The Wheels on the Bus – those ones are right up my street. And the ones we’ve been going to a while – where…
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