It was a pleasure to write a list for the brilliant Clemmie Telford and her "Mother Of All Lists'. I shared my experience of Dave's new…
Emma Campbell24 September 2019
Family Blog Posts
We’re feeling beaten again. Beaten and a bit broken. Not by life, not by tragedy or trauma but by three small people who seem to…
Emma Campbell19 June 2018
So where did it all go right? As some of you will know (I’ve moaned about it for long enough) we’ve had a really, really…
Emma Campbell17 April 2018
I played with the children yesterday. Monsters. I turned the lights off upstairs and chased them. All five of us ended up in a pile…
Emma Campbell14 May 2014
There comes a point in the evening when I don't want to get another glass of water or break up another fight. I don't want…
Emma Campbell19 April 2014
Swearing. It's a funny old thing. We all do it (don't we?) Okay, maybe some more than others but we've all got a favourite expletive.…
Emma Campbell23 September 2013
This is it. I've got what I wanted. Ella, Louis and Theo are in full time nursery and my days are now my own. It's…
Emma Campbell8 September 2013
Ssh. Don't tell anyone but I'm off. I'm hitting the road in the morning and heading north. There's food in the fridge, custard creams in…
Emma Campbell6 August 2013
A mini miracle occurred today. For at least fifteen minutes this morning Ella, Louis and Theo played together. Properly. Imaginary stuff…proper playing! The TV was…
Emma Campbell11 July 2013
There has to be a way to make bedtime less torturous. Ella, Louis and Theo’s that is – not mine. I can be upstairs, in…
Emma Campbell4 March 2013
It’s been a good few weeks. Calm and constant with the only dramas being the ones that occur inside my head, me being the worrier…
Emma Campbell16 February 2013
Dear Miss J, Please can you give Jake’s homework directly to me from now on. We all know the truth. Let’s stop the pretence, the…
Emma Campbell21 January 2013
Jake’s upstairs cleaning his teeth. I’m down in the living room at the computer. ‘Mummy?’ ‘Yes Jake?’ ‘I know the answer to this but is…
Emma Campbell10 January 2013
I’m curious as to how other separated couples manage Christmas. If neither of them have ‘moved on’ that is. Like us. I’m bracing myself for…
Emma Campbell22 December 2012
It’s fair to say that I’ve been on a bit of a downer lately. Going through a delightfully depressing phase of obsessively worrying about my…
Emma Campbell20 November 2012
I definitely need to get out more. And so does my nine year old. We are slowly but surely morphing into our very own version…
Emma Campbell12 November 2012
Just as well as I go to choir once a week as I seem to be prohibited from opening my mouth to warble a tune…
Emma Campbell12 November 2012
Now I’m no Nigella – sorry, Nigellissima, but I do try. Sometimes. And when I do make the effort to step away from the freezer…
Emma Campbell18 October 2012
Today was surprisingly enjoyable. There was none of the palpable tension that usually hangs in the air when a certain person and I spend any…
Emma Campbell23 September 2012
I seem to have lost the ability to speak in a normal voice. I’ve got so used to shouting that I’m shouting when there’s no need to…
Emma Campbell12 September 2012
We did it. Made it through the summer holidays with our heads held high. We managed to complete most of the items on our list…
Emma Campbell5 September 2012
You know you’re having a bad day when, at around quarter to five in the afternoon, you find yourself eating mashed potato out of the…
Emma Campbell3 September 2012
Jake was six when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. About to start chemo and therefore about to see my appearance dramatically altered I knew…
Emma Campbell27 August 2012
All of my four have got some kind of bug. The feverish, shivering, limpet-like mummy, mummy, I want my mummy kind of thing. In the…
Emma Campbell5 August 2012
Jake has returned from his summer holiday in France. Ten days early. Three nights of heart wrenching phone calls – I (sob) miss you (splutter)…
Emma Campbell3 August 2012
Yesterday, in a moment of despair, I locked the triplets in the garden. I say ‘locked’ – I shoved them gently but firmly outside, shut…
Emma Campbell26 July 2012
I’m getting stricter by the day. I’m almost scaring myself. The naughty corner is now firmly established as is my Supernanny inspired special voice that…
Emma Campbell22 July 2012
A couple of months ago I watched an episode of Supernanny USA. She was working her magic on a family with four children – triplets…
Emma Campbell19 July 2012
If I’d read my horoscope this week I’m sure the advice would have been to stay in bed and avoid all human contact. From about…
Emma Campbell12 July 2012
I try to make Friday evenings a bit special for Jake. Treat nights we call them. Something funny on the TV, a bowl of crisps,…
Emma Campbell6 July 2012
Yesterday, after another fun filled morning spent fighting against my current reality and resenting my offspring for being unable to let a minute pass without…
Emma Campbell30 June 2012
This morning, a certain person suggested ( and that’s a polite way of putting it) that I should stop wasting time singing in a choir…
Emma Campbell26 June 2012
It’s always a joy when I manage to get a parking space outside of Jake’s school in the morning. Especially when the sun is shining.…
Emma Campbell19 June 2012
Time flies when you’re having fun. Last year’s good intentions of daily blogging were overtaken by just getting through each day hence months and months…
Emma Campbell10 June 2012
Seeing your ex-partner playing with your children messes with your head. Happy scenes of father and daughter bonding, rough and tumble with the boys. Oh,…
Emma Campbell2 November 2011
And so it begins. Christmas. Seeing mince pies on the shelves of a certain food store on the first day of September told me all…
Emma Campbell20 September 0202