Funny old things birthdays, don’t you think? They’re a bit like New Year’s Eve - as the big day looms you can’t help but mull…
Emma Campbell8 April 2018
Musings Blog Posts
I met a lovely fellow blogger and super mumma recently - Clemmie Telford of the Mother of all Lists blog. She was kind enough to ask…
Emma Campbell19 December 2016
It's been a funny old week. Ever since this whole cancer schmancer 'thing' started all those years ago it only ever takes me feeling a…
Emma Campbell19 November 2016
I’m torn. My three are hurtling towards five with grubby knees from the school playground, a million priceless questions and spaghetti sauce down their jumpers.…
Emma Campbell22 February 2015
Don't you just love it when things come together? I've always found it very handy that my best friend lives up north. It means that…
Emma Campbell13 November 2014
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
Well, I'm not having this. No way. 2014 is going to be my year, a great year not a year with bollocks and stress and…
Emma Campbell12 January 2014
My weekend away did me good. I say weekend. It was two whole nights but just one whole day of child free-freedom. Over in the…
Emma Campbell2 December 2013
I have a new Monday morning routine. Kids dropped off at school and nursery I head to my local cafe and meet with a lovely…
Emma Campbell18 November 2013
I'm having one of those weeks where, as if from nowhere, I am reminded of how it feels to be unwell. Fatigue, achey limbs and…
Emma Campbell23 October 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
It’s happened. Three and a half years in and the ‘twin thing’ seems to have taken a hold between my very own Thing One and…
Emma Campbell2 June 2013
The last few weeks have been strange. I’ve come to the blank page on several occasions and found myself staring into space feeling like I…
Emma Campbell21 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
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
And normal service is resumed. Thank the lord. First day of term for my four, first day of recovery for me. They had a good…
Emma Campbell8 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 went for a run today, for the first time in weeks. In an attempt to raise my endorphin levels and snap myself out of…
Emma Campbell5 November 2012
I had my right nipple tattooed last night. As you do. Or breast re pigmentation to use the correct term. Headed up to Harley Street…
Emma Campbell2 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
I’m anemic. This is a relief as it explains the overwhelming exhaustion, low mood and pale complexion that I’ve been sporting for the last couple…
Emma Campbell11 October 2012
Today was spent watching Ella scribble on a freshly painted wall in a gorgeous house in north west London and be applauded and rewarded for…
Emma Campbell9 October 2012
When I was in the grip of everything (and by everything I mean newborn triplets, a hideous break up and a breast cancer diagnosis) I…
Emma Campbell5 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’m in denial. Serious denial about the fact that in three weeks time I will be donning my scruffy trainers, borrowing one of my mother’s…
Emma Campbell12 September 2012
When we were good… The long oak coffee table that was the living room centre piece in my ‘old’ life is now back with me…
Emma Campbell28 August 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
So, the smug Superwoman status I granted myself last week for remaining fighting fit in a house full of sick children has well and truly…
Emma Campbell21 August 2012
My Ella Bella is a feisty little thing, knows exactly what she wants and certainly seems to have been born without the scaredy cat gene.…
Emma Campbell17 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
I’m ageing by the day. Shuffling around the house in my slippers, bending over and not being able to straighten up without clutching my lower…
Emma Campbell5 August 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