Are your children preparing to head back to school? I don't know what's happened, but the summer has seemed to whizz by. This is our last week before Olivia and

For years, we women have been told how we can 'have it all': balancing a good career with raising a family while keeping our homes in order. This was an

At the weekend I drove a few hundred miles to deposit my children with my parents for one week. Yep, that's right. I am now officially child-free for one whole week.

Parenting is hard. Actually no, forget that. Life is hard. More specifically juggling life as a parent is hard. One day you might feel like you're in perfect control of everything.

"Getting older isn't something to worry about," my parents and their friends would tell me years ago. "Age is just a number. Life's not about how old you are, its

Back in April, I signed my children up for the Lawn Tennis Association's 'Tennis for Kids' initiative: free tennis lessons for 6 weeks to get children interested in tennis. They