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Sarah Turner
2 years
My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when I was growing up … but now I’ve said it out loud, I realise I need to break the cycle. I won’t be taking any further questions.
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My lovely mum died on Boxing Day 2002, 20 years ago today. She was 48. A primary school teacher, superb cuddle giver, terrible singer and the absolute heart of our family. The last thing she said to me was ‘be good, and if you can’t be good, be careful.’ Solid advice tbh 💕
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7 years
Unbelievably proud to announce the safe arrival of baby Wilf, born just before midnight at 39 weeks. We’re back home now and all in a bit of a fog but it’s a happy fog ❤️
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3 years
Did my regular check on Son 1’s search history. He knows I do this … but I think he must have forgotten. My heart 💔🥰
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2 months
My first event of the new book tour has been cancelled due to low ticket sales 😢 and I feel really embarrassed 🙈 I have shared many publishing highs along the way and I think it’s important to share when things feel tough, too. Onwards, I guess! Xx
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Bit of a stressful evening. Haven’t been able to find out who someone I knew in Year 10 announced as the second person in their @ list to spend a year on a luxury island with. Also don’t know if my name was on the list of girls guaranteed to get pregnant in 2022 #facebookdown
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3 years
In the car with the kids who have requested Kisstory. Some absolute bangers to be fair. Anyway, Kelis comes on with Milkshake and Jude (7) says, “I bet her milkshake isn’t better than the one we had at that farm shop that time.” 😂
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Sarah Turner
7 years
Oh yes we did!! Super excited to announce that we are having a baby, a little brother for Henry and Jude, due in December ❤️
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7 years
Postpartum reality! Sorry if you’re eating your breakfast but after initially thinking I couldn’t share this, I realised it’s less flesh than it would be if I shared my ‘bikini body’. I was absolutely euphoric here ❤️(despite walking like John Wayne and wearing an adult nappy)
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7 years
A massive thank you to the midwives at @MaternityRde for safety delivering baby Wilf last night. Our third baby to be born at the RD&E. Special shout out to our wonderfully calm midwife Rosie and trainee midwife Lottie ❤️ #lovetheNHS #grateful
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2 years
Big up my mother-in-law whose response to my 5-year-old telling her it was time for their wrestling match was, “OK let me just take my shoes off” 😂
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2 years
This Christmas marks twenty years since my mum died. She’s been on my mind a lot so here’s a little poem I wrote at lunchtime. Big love to anyone who is missing someone ❤️
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Sarah Turner
1 year
In honour of my husband’s 40th birthday today, here’s the greatest parenting photo of all time #blessed
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Sarah Turner
2 years
My life changed for the better the day I first used scissors to cut pizza. No regrets. No turning back.
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Sarah Turner
7 years
BACK SOON! I am taking a little social media sabbatical for a few weeks so Wilf and I can get to know each other properly. Happy Christmas and see you in 2018🎄
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6 years
Next time, eh? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #ENGCRO
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Dear Anna: a Response to that Daily Mail 'article' ...
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2 years
The lying, the rich and the wallpaper.
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Boris Johnson is writing his memoir from his time as PM🤦‍♂️🙄. What should he call it?🤔🤨
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6 years
Long for the baby to sleep through. He sleeps through! (I don’t sleep through because I spend the night panicking about him being too quiet and double checking he is OK). #motherhood
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Sarah Turner
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Last night, I gave the 6-year-old a clock and told him he wasn’t to come downstairs until 7am as he’s been getting up far too early ⏰ This morning, he came down at 5:50am (already up, thanks baby Wilf) carrying the clock which he’d CHANGED to 7am.
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Sarah Turner
7 years
“Mummy it still looks like there’s a baby in your tummy!” How’s everybody else’s evening going?
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2 years
The parenting equivalent of Glastonbury tickets
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6 years
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Sarah Turner
5 years
Oh Lord 🙈😂
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Sarah Turner
8 years
God bless my Facebook page (and the people who message me). It truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Sarah Turner
2 years
Just told my eldest that we’ve got jacket potatoes for tea and he fell to the floor as though he’d been taken out by a sniper.
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Sarah Turner
7 years
Dear @instagram , I liked you so much better when a refresh of your app showed the posts of ALL the people I’d CHOSEN to follow, in chronological order, and not someone’s dinner from 2 days ago or total randoms who are ‘recommended for me’. Maybe I don’t follow them for a reason.
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Sarah Turner
2 years
I was thinking yesterday about the games my kids find joy in vs the things I found joy in as a kid and I think the time has come to share the story of my favourite ever game: travel agents. For years, I thought all kids had done this sort of thing. Spoiler: they had not🧵
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Sarah Turner
3 years
10 weeks since we adopted Frank. Here he is with my husband who ‘isn’t that fussed about the cat’ 😉 #rescuecat
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I’m signed up for a Tuesday circuits class but tonight I really wanted to stay at home and eat snacks instead. My 11-year-old has just quoted the lecture I gave him about commitment when he didn’t want to do his swimming lesson last week. I am now going to circuits. FFS 😭😂
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Sarah Turner
6 years
When baby Wilf found out Trump would be visiting 😉
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I've just 'ironed' the top I'm wearing with straighteners and my kids are watching a film before school. How do you like me now, Daily Mail?
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Sarah Turner
7 years
If you haven’t Instagrammed a photo of the kids in a field of pumpkins, are you even a blogger? Asking for a friend.
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Sarah Turner
7 years
PR email top tip: In the email where you outline all the unique reasons you want to work with the blogger in question, try to remember to remove the name of another blogger you just emailed with the same unique reasons. (See also: removing the names of the other blogger's kids).
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6 years
Visual representation of the number of fucks I have to give about Love Island 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Watching Royal Wedding highlights with the 6-year-old. Me: ‘Well, this is all a bit beautiful, isn’t it?!’ 6-year-old: ‘Henry VIII is buried in that floor.’ #romance
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3 years
I don’t like to brag but today, on his 4th birthday, my son told me he “loves me to the leisure centre and back” 💝👌🥳
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3 years
19 year ago today, my mum died. I was a teenager and it was the end of the world as I knew it (though when someone is terminally ill, the world as you know it disappears long before the end). I was certain at that time that I would never again be happy. It seemed impossible …
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Monday morning. Half-term is over. Two children are on a final warning* after running in and out of the living-room shouting, “Vagina!” “There is nothing funny about ‘vagina’” only seems to make them laugh more. *No one knows what happens after the final warning.
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Sarah Turner
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Shout out to the elderly gentleman who stopped me on Exeter high street to tell me that I’m having a girl “100%. Can tell from the bump!” Didn’t have the heart to tell him we know otherwise so told him I was looking forward to meeting my daughter 😂
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Sarah Turner
3 years
Tidying the house while the kids are in it.
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Sarah Turner
2 years
The me who makes plans to do stuff and the me who actually has to do the stuff are two different people entirely.
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Sarah Turner
7 years
Today's train read. So excited to have an exclusive proof copy of this @LouisePentland ! 📖👯🎉
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3 years
Just dropped eldest son at a paintball party. It’s safe to say Byker Grove has scarred an entire generation as we all attempted to convey a serious safety message, through the medium of acting, to our horrified offspring. “He cannae see, man!" Never Forget.
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Sarah Turner
5 years
Biggest lie ever told: that frozen oven chips will be “ready in 15-20 minutes.”
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Sarah Turner
2 years
I swear I’m turning more into Motherland’s Julia every day. After a fraught afternoon, I stormed out the house in a sulk about having too much to do. Having marched to the park in my big coat, I bumped into a school mum collecting sticks for a Yr 6 project I’d forgotten about 😂
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Sarah Turner
2 years
Unbelievably proud to say that #SteppingUp is a Richard and Judy book club pick for Spring. It’s also out in paperback today! Best day ever 🪜💚
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Sarah Turner
7 years
The ridiculousness of standing at the bottom of the stairs, shouting, "STOP SHOUTING! WE DO NOT SHOUT!" is not lost on me.
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Sarah Turner
6 years
Thought for the day 👌
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This.
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2 years
Mummy Pig representing how mums feel in the run up to Christmas. Tired, shrivelled, (hopefully not naked). No one gives a shit, they just keep asking her what’s for tea and where the chargers are. We feel you, love.
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Well if nothing else, tonight was one way of ensuring the PTA don’t want my cakes for the bake sale 👌😂🥣
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2 years
@SoVeryBritish “Suppose I should get going.”
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Can't wait for the baby to arrive so I can recreate this casual pose ☺️
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Henry: ‘Mum, I need to tell you something.” Me: [panicking that he’s either being bullied or has broken my laptop] ‘What is it, pickle?’ Henry: ‘I really hate the beach.’ Me: ‘The beach????’ Henry: [sighing] ‘I just don’t like sand.’ #alrightythen #randomchatswithmy5yearold
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Sarah Turner
6 years
Looking forward to my dad texting with a Happy New Year message any minute now, ‘to avoid the rush.’
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Sarah Turner
2 years
I just don’t understand anything anymore
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7 years
The two faces of new motherhood -one with slightly less glow 🤣. After 4 weeks away from social media I am back and I have blogged! #threeisthemagicnumber #ifyoulikenosleepandconstantnoise #nottomentionthesmells #mumofthreeboys #nervouslaughter
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When people say I’m lucky my husband is a “hands-on dad”
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3 years
Looking forward to my dad texting at around 6pm later “to avoid the rush” 💚 #NewYearsEve
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7 years
Decaf tea. Like tea, but shit.
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3 years
Cheers to the weekend. Two weeks we’ve had this cat and I don’t even have the words 😂 #theyseemerollin #rescuecat #adoptdontshop
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In the 4 days our rescue cat has been with us, he has: nicked a Dairylea sandwich off the side and dragged it back to his bed, got in the way of the tv, played “which human lap is my favourite” at least 5 times a day and generally reminded us that he is our king now 🐈 👑💛
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6 years
Watched a programme about not being afraid to haggle on price. This is what happened next: Me [on phone to company selling something I want] ‘So what are you able to do for me on price, Mike?’ Mike: ‘Nothing at all.’ Me: ‘OK great, thanks so much!’ - End of haggling career
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7 years
The number of unsuccessful times I ask my children to put their shoes on before school every morning #givemestrength
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7 years
Me this morning after waking up to some (more) Mail Online bile. Ain't nothing wrong with fish fingers love. Solidarity to the Mum pack 💪
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Sarah Turner
3 years
… wanted to offer a bit of hope to anyone who is missing someone this Christmas. I know the days ahead can seem endlessly dark but one day you will look around you and realise the light has started to creep back in. There are warm, sparkly days ahead. Hang in there x
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Me: ‘Jude why are you acting so silly this evening?’ Jude: [hysterically laughing] ‘I’ve lost the plot!’ He’s THREE 🤣
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Got dressed in my gym gear first thing this morning so I would feel more inclined to head out for a workout. I am currently in one of the buildings next to my gym, in my gym gear. That building is McDonald’s 😂
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Sarah Turner
7 years
Nailed it 🤣🤣🤣
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2 years
Took my kids to see Gaia, the Luke Jerram Earth installation at Exeter Cathedral this eve. Me: “It says here it creates a sense of the ‘Overview Effect,’ used to describe how astronauts who have seen the earth from space feel. Cool, eh?” My kids: “Are we having a McDonald’s?”
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3 years
Me last month: ‘I’m really glad Henry gets to experience the excitement of taking a disposable camera on his school trip, before getting it developed. I remember doing the same and it was magic.’ Me today: ‘I might as well have just set fire to £20.’
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Strangest thing happened last night. Tooth fairy left a coin for Henry but forgot to take his tooth ... I can only imagine she’s got a lot on her plate. I‘ve explained that even tooth fairies make mistakes sometimes 😬
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“It’s no fun doing Christmas shopping online. Let’s pop to town - we’re only in charge of one child, it’ll be a doddle! We can have a look around the market and soak up the Christmassy atmosphere. What a good idea!” Narrator: It was not a good idea.
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Woohoo the sun is out! I’ve even shaved my legs! Not the knees and above, obvs #notaspecialoccasion
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