Ideal Home

Interior design is something I haven’t really covered much on the blog, mostly because my home isn’t quite how I’d like it to be. Ideally, we’d replace the bathrooms, our conservatory, the kitchen cabinets (and build an island or breakfast bar) and all of the flooring throughout the house, as well as paint the exterior… View Post

Balancing Act

The other day I realised – I mean, properly realised – that I try to do too much. Like most people, I juggle a lot of different things at once, from housekeeping and exercise to working full time and blogging along the way. I’ve always known that I’m like this (mostly because objects go flying… View Post

My First Mother’s Day

I’m conscious that I don’t want The Daydreamer to become utterly focused on baby talk, and I promise it won’t – but how could I let my first Mother’s Day go past without writing something? I was thoroughly spoiled all morning (breakfast in bed, flowers) but it was later, at Blair Castle, when I felt… View Post

Giving Birth – My Experience

After sixteen hours of being in labour, Nathan Coburn Miller was born. Naturally, the relief I felt in the instant he was born was mostly due to the pain being over – but it was also because the anxiety that had built up throughout our IVF treatment had finally been released; I no longer had… View Post

IVF: My Experience

Something I’ve struggled with over the last few months is feeling as though I couldn’t be honest with my blog readers. Having had IVF for almost two years, we fell pregnant at the end of May and, naturally, we didn’t want to share our news until a lot later on. During the summer, I wrote… View Post