Stepping ‘intu’ a Lakeside Christmas
Anyone that knows Mrs Lighty will tell you just how much I love Christmas. I love everything about it – the lights, the festive songs on the radio, the Christmas specials on the telly – Read More …
What’s in a Name?
I’ve always had a weird obsession with names. If ever anyone told me they were expecting, one of the first questions I’d always find myself asking was, “do you have any names yet?”. Similarly, if Read More …
Swimming, Sleeping and Skeletons: a Week of Firsts
One of the reasons Mrs Lighty started this blog was to document the early days of Baby Lighty’s life. So when you have a week of firsts, it’s important to blog about these, right? And Read More …
The Professional Wedding Guest Baby
There comes a time in most people’s lives when the big highlights of your social calendar revolve around weddings. Usually with a 30th birthday party and / or christening thrown in for good measure, too. Mr Read More …
The Baby Show: Bump vs. Baby
Mrs Lighty has been lucky enough this year to have won tickets to both February’s Baby Show at the Excel Centre and October’s Baby Show at Olympia (well, if I’m honest, I actually won two sets Read More …
Mama Mail: From Mamas with Love
I swear my 4 and a half month old is already going through the terrible twos. In the past week Baby Lighty’s little personality seems to have come on in leaps and bounds, and with it Read More …
Hair Brained or Baby Brained?!
I write this from the comfort of my hairdresser’s chair. I say comfort, because this should be a relaxing new mummy treat – hair being done, magazines and phone at hand, hot (yes, hot!) cup Read More …
The Baby and the Birthdays
September and October have always been known as ‘the birthday season’ in the Lighty household. With 5 out of the 6 of us in one of our close friendship groups having birthdays between 16th September and Read More …
Lighty’s Loyalty and Hugh Grant: The Dragon’s Loyalty Award
I had a little notification pop up on my Twitter feed just over a week ago to say that the lovely Dawn at Rhyming with Wine had very kindly nominated me for the Dragon’s Loyalty Award! I Read More …
Hush Little Noises…Please don’t Wake Little Lighty!
When Baby Lighty was born, Britain was in one of the hottest heat waves the country had seen for a long, long time. With temperatures regularly reaching 27 degrees upwards, this soon gave way to Read More …