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    After Maternity Leave

    June 18, 2019 /

    Time Flies Dylan is now 11 months old. I can hardly believe how quickly the past year has gone. It feels like a blink of an eye since my waters broke unexpectedly in the early hours, 6 whole weeks before they were supposed to. For the past few months I’ve been in a quandary about what to do after my maternity leave ends. I enjoy my job and I’ve worked so hard for it, but I love spending time with Dylan and can’t imagine having to leave him at nursery. Plus he’s only going to be little once and it already feels like it’s whizzing by too fast. We signed…

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Welcome to The Tartan Leeks

Hello, I'm Helena. Mum to two beautiful boys and wife to Mik. Born and bred in South Wales but now living in North East Scotland where I've given up my job as an engineer to be a stay-at-home Mum. I hope you enjoy following along with our parenting journey here.

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Feels like spring is around the corner finally. Fo Feels like spring is around the corner finally. Found a swan at the pond so I had a very happy boy this morning! ๐ŸŒธ
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Climbing in the sunshine at the park yesterday - a Climbing in the sunshine at the park yesterday - almost felt like spring if you ignored the snow on the ground and the biting wind ๐Ÿ”†
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This afternoon's activity is snow painting! He's b This afternoon's activity is snow painting! He's been at it for half an hour already so that's a win! Paint recipe is from @mothercould using just cornflour, water and food colouring so baby Harris has been using it as well ๐ŸŽจ
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Cake tin drum kit keeping H happy so I can make lu Cake tin drum kit keeping H happy so I can make lunch in "peace"! ๐Ÿฅ
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When Harris was around 5 months old we switched to When Harris was around 5 months old we switched to cloth nappies and haven't looked back. They are so pretty, barely ever leak and most importantly are helping to reduce the number of nappies going to landfill. Have you ever used cloth nappies and how did you get on with them?
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Say hello to Olaf โ›„ Dylan watched Frozen for the Say hello to Olaf โ›„ Dylan watched Frozen for the first time the other day and is now obsessed with Olaf, Elsa and Anna!
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We made ice decorations for the garden. Dylan love We made ice decorations for the garden. Dylan loved pouring the water and then choosing where to hang them once they'd frozen! โ„๏ธ
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Sledging with a cousin who can steer is much more Sledging with a cousin who can steer is much more fun than going it alone ๐Ÿ›ท
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Off to the shops for some milk and eggs with our l Off to the shops for some milk and eggs with our little helper ๐ŸŒจ๏ธ๐Ÿฅ›๐Ÿฅš
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