Off to Wales!

I am so excited and stressed all at the same time... girls you know the feeling!!


I have been nominated for a Special Recognition Award at the British Female Inventors and Innovators Awards Gala in Cardiff on Tuesday 30th June for easidream, which is totally fantastic.


But, when all is said and done, preparing my flock for my 2 day absence requires the the same degree of expertise and skill that you would expect to employ organising a round the world trip!


Anyone would think I was going away for 6 months!


Anyway, I'm sure that it will all be worth the effort, when I am there mingling with the other great female inventors.

I will keep you posted as to how I get on... here's hoping I may pick up an award - fingers and toes crossed!


Lynda

This little piggy went to casualty!

After an eventful and extremely busy Thursday, I rolled up at my local town car park, two children in tow, to go and see Amy perform at the Waterlooville Music Festival with the rest of the choir from her school.

Nothing too sinister you may think, but now consider the short walk of around 200m from car park to church with an extremely excited, SKIPPING Bradley..... no, don't think you'll guess this one, but with one reckless flick of a school shoe.... CRACK my little toe was broken!!

"Ahhhhhhhhhh, you've broken my toe Bradley!" was greeted with, "Ohhhhhh, but do you think we're going to be late now?" Kids eh?!!!!

So there I was administering first aid on the spot (good job we were next to a chemist) with shoppers busily racing by. I was soooo tempted to nip in and borrow one of those mobility buggies from a neighbouring shop to get me to the church on time!

Me thinks that #6 is not content with merely breaking me mentally - keeping me awake every night for two and half years - but has now moved on to phase 2 of his cunning plan......slowly breaking me physically!!

Anyway, if you see me hobbling through Waterlooville, you'll now know why.

Bless....when all is said and done, I do still love him to bits!

And so to bed......

All new parents know that sleepless nights are definitely on the agenda when their little bundle of joy arrives, it goes with the territory. But when they go on night after night, week after week, month after month and in extreme cases, year after year, ‘BOY HELL’ are they a killer?!

With me, Bradley (#6) just plain refused to go off to sleep and it would literally take HOURS for him to settle and when he did ‘give in’ to sleep, he would normally wake up again within two hours max! Combine this with the fact that when he woke up he was full of beans, wasn’t at all hungry, but just wanted to play and I seriously began questioning whether he had been swopped at birth with a baby from a family of insomniacs!! Of course he couldn’t have been as he was a home birth, but yes, I was at the stage when a sale on eBay was imminent!

Now, I was in the fortunate position of knowing that I couldn't have been doing anything wrong. How do I know this? I had already been through the whole baby ‘sleep time routine thing’ with my five older children and they had all slept through beautifully, by around four months, using my tried and tested techniques. So what on earth was happening? Was it some sort of divine retribution for all those years of giving parents a ‘knowing look’ when they announced that they couldn’t get their baby to sleep through the night? Or was someone trying to tell me SIX was enough?!

Well, after around two years of no sleep, an incredibly simple thought suddenly entered my mind; every baby like every person is different! Bradley was a unique individual who had specific ‘sleep needs’ that just weren’t fulfilled by those age old 'tried and tested' methods; he needed something else… but that’s a later post….

So new Mums & Dads take heart, it could very well be that there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with what you are doing, it just could be that your baby is, ‘a Bradley’!! One of those babies that needs a ‘sleep cue’ that is specifically linked to their own little unique ‘personality’.

Over the coming months I will be posting a whole host of ideas to help trigger ‘quality’ sleep for your little one and sharing with you my own keys to sleep success, together with revealing the secrets of why easidream® is so effective.

Tweets for my tweet!

OK, so not only have I managed to launch my blog, I have now taken the plunge and gone active on Twitter... please do follow me at easidream to catch up on the daily shenanigans encountered by this mum of 6, together with a bit of serious business 'thrown in' for good luck!

She's only gone and done it!

Well, after faffing around for what seems like weeks, I have finally managed to get this blog up and running!

I would like to thank my daughter Amy (8) for interrupting me on numerous occasions to show me an innovative house she had made out of a cardboard box, supplied by Nan, which had a whole host of gadgets to open doors and draw curtains (chip off the block maybe?), together with Bradley (6) and William (10) for their countless distractions resulting mainly from their ability to re-enact an entire WWE Wrestle Mania match in the middle of my lounge! Their combined efforts at prolonging my blog launch were superb and they are definitely a force to be reckoned with!

Enough said... it's here and I would like to thank Rachel Elnaugh, for encouraging me to 'get this show on the road', together with Thomas Mahon aka English Cut, who gave a great presentation at Rachel's Marketing Magician's Event which, to be honest, clinched the whole 'blog thing' for me..... fantastic blog Thomas, well worth visiting and definitely a hard act to follow... but I'll give it my best shot!