About us

Hello and welcome to our blog. Myself and Melanie set up this blog to write about parenting, weightloss and lifestyle from the perspective of 2 Mums, from 2 different countries. We met on Instagram when we were both due to have our second babies a few days apart. We got chatting and the rest, as they say, is history! So welcome and we hope you enjoy reading, now allow us to introduce ourselves...

Hello! I'm Emma, I'm a 32 year old wife, Mummy to 2 and I live in the north of England. I'm sarcastic, smiley, daft and I have a bit of a potty mouth. I have worked for a bank, as the manager of a bar, a DJ and most recently as a teaching assistant. I love cooking, especially baking, being crafty, making things, exercising, doing things with my family and I'm a little bit  obsessed with buttons. After having my first baby I lost just over 4 stone with Slimming World, I continued to follow the plan whilst pregnant with my second and I got back to my target weight 1 week post partum. I  have been with my awesome husband Joe for 10 years and we've been married for 3. Joe is a software engineer, a lover of Terry Pratchet novels and all things outdoors. We met in a nightclub, we bonded over a mutual love of comedy and music and we've been having fun and giggling together ever since. Our eldest child is called Dylan who's 2, he loves trains, tractors and potato waffles. We had our second baby in July, a little girl called Eilys and she spends her days trying to suck her hands, drinking milk and sleeping. And that's me in a nutshell! Over to you, Melanie...

Thank you Emma!
Well, hello! I'm Melanie, a 29 year old girl living in the midst of the Swiss Alps with my husband Marcel and our two lovely children Nathanael and Aurelia. I would consider myself to be a happy person who laughs and smiles a lot. I like baking, crocheting, reading and traveling. I met my husband in 2004 and we instantly fell for each other probably not thinking that 6 years later we would get married. In 2013 we welcomed our boy Nathanael. He loves everything with wheels, all kinds of berries and climbing up on basically everything. 19 months later we were over the moon to welcome our baby girl Aurelia. Her main interests at the moment are sleeping, mummy's boobs and the occasional nappy explosion. My main man loves himself a good gaming night with his playstation friends, a nice BBQ in summer and a stroll around the hills with our dog Ares. I have finished my masters degree in Psychology in 2013 just before having had Nathanael but  I haven't really worked that long as a psychologist. However, I have worked as a waitress, at a supermarket, as a tutor, as a tourist guide and I will start training to be a special needs teacher in September. Other than that I just signed up for the Weight Watchers online program trying to loose about 30kgs. And that was my life in short...