Working it out: Stay at home or return to work?

Figuring out if and when you should go back to work after you’ve had a child is a very personal and family-based decision. Can you afford not to work? Who will look after your baby? What impact will it have on your career? Is your child too young? What support networks are available to you? […]

Baking the ‘stay-at-home-mum’ cake …

I am not a cake baker. I’m not a gardener. I’m not knitter. I don’t DIY. I am not any of the things I idealised about my mother who was a really good homemaker. I do not live up to my expectations of what a mother at home should be. I am barely baking the cake, forget the fondant.