Big M: You can’t have cows milk can you mummy? Me: No I can’t. Big M: You have soil milk instead, don’t you? ******** Me: What did you think of the school? Big M: I loved it Mummy! There was a castle and books and fish and you have to wear a uniform and a [...]

So here we are. The beginning of another month, and time for another Personal Challenge. After last month’s awesome success (I am still grinning), this month my personal challenge is going to be a LOT less physical and really not quite as exciting. I have Ulcerative Colitis. I was diagnosed in 2005, and since then [...]

Dear Santa, How are you? I hope you are well. I know this is a busy time for you, so I thought I’d help you out by letting you know that my name will definitely be on your list. I have been a really good girl this year unless eating too many biscuits is bad. [...]

After seven months I had crossed off 15 items from my day zero list. That’s 15% completed, and I still have two years and one month to go. Whoop! So, can I cross any more off this month? With out further to do, let’s find out… 7. Get Big M to eat any fruit for that matter [...]

Emma over at Me the Man and The Baby has asked us all to show her our town. We recently moved. It’s only five minutes up the road from where we used to live, but it’s like a whole other world. I can see trees from my bedroom for a start. It’s a ten minute [...]

If you have been reading this blog for a while now, you will probabaly be aware that Big M does Not Do Fruit. She went through a phase of eating satsumas, raisins and bananas, but for the last ten months or so, she has refused even these. She’ll eat a fruit puree, no problem but [...]

So, this week’s you capture challenge was kisses. What with Valentine’s day this week, you’d think I would have captured a whole load of kisses. You, my friend, would be wrong. I have spectacularly failed to capture ANY kisses this week. Mostly because I have been too busy giving or receiving them to remember to take [...]

I may or may not be a little bit cheese obsessed recently. Ok, I am. But can you blame me? I have spent four years in the cheese wilderness and now I’m back. Oh happy day. Just when I thought life couldn’t get much cheesier, my mum pulled this out of the fridge at dinner [...]

I love food. Food doesn’t always love me though. For example, one of my all time favourite meals is roast beef and yorkshire pudding. Nobody cooks a roast like my granny, and her yorkshire pud is DELICIOUS! Turns out, though, that red meat makes my colitis bad, and I am lactose intolerant. Dagnammit. I have [...]

Four years ago I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. I’m one of the lucky ones who can (mostly) control it with tablets and my diet. When I was first diagnosed, my mum paid for me to have a food allergy test. On the whole, the results weren’t particularly surprising as I already had a pretty [...]