Hello. My name is Alice Harold. I look like this:

I am a 27-year-old Digital Consultant living 30 minutes outside of London in a small North Buckinghamshire village. I am the mother of a beautiful baby girl, Elfie, who was born on 7th July 2010 with a rare genetic condition. Baby Huxley joined the family on 16th May 2012 and is ace.

I enjoy working, cooking, style, a healthy bit of vanity, being punctual, my husband, shopping and eating out. I spend too much time on my hair and worrying and not enough time on sleeping. I always wanted to be a writer when I was younger but have neither the drive or qualifications to become a journalist nor the patience to write a book;  this blog, I hope, is a happy medium.

In a former life I was a bit of a party girl. I worked for a magazine, lived in Central London and would have most likely been found 3 martinis down at Shoreditch House. 2 years on and I’m usually found with chipped nails and unwashed hair on the sofa, half a bottle of Marlborough Sauvingon Blanc down. The transition from parties to poo continues to be tough but I love my new life as a housewife and part-time working mother.

I work for myself running a small Digital Marketing Consultancy, working from home and London. I recently started the online magazine MAMA.

This blog is here to record the highlights of Elfie’s life, so I will have lots of wonderful memories to look back on when I’m old and smelling of cat wee. I need it because of all that Sauvignon Blanc.

You can see my top 10 most popular posts here:

• On Finally Writing That Book
• Confessional
• When Marriage Doesn't Work Out
• The More Than Toast Book Club
• Are Blogs Too Perfect?
• A PND Brain Dump
• Life with Elfie as a Poorly Baby
• On Breastfeeding Guilt
• Get Over It
• He's Here!