#InDadsShoes Charity campaign with Inkly Cards

With Father’s Day not far off, on Sunday June 21st, I’m starting to plan how I’ll be spoiling the 2 main (grown) men in my life : my husband of 10 years, Peter, and of course the one and only Papa G.

My Dad, George is an award winning restaurateur so is always delighted with anything gourmet food related (I know Fortnum and Mason makes him delighted for one) but my husband’s much a lot more of a ‘tough crowd’ so I’ll be browsing on his amazon wish list when it pertains to his present and no doubt cam ­related.

More than the presents though is the sentiment and I’m grateful that behind this woman are 2 great men, supporting and loving me, and what I do. They, along with my Mum, of course are my rocks.

It’s terrific there’s a day dedicated to dads and celebrating all they are and do, so my two young sons, Oliver and Alexander and I, can show our appreciation and make a great old fuss of the big guys.

Like Mother’s Day and the big V­day, people often accuse Father’s Day of being just another commercial holiday, but I have to be honest, I really don’t agree with that.

Where’s the equality in that?

Fathers are a crucial and equal part of the family unit and should have championing.

And there are so lots of ways that you, and I, can make Father’s Day meaningful.

This is why I love the new charity competition by the handwritten greetings card app, I nkly which encourages parents to share a photo on social media of their child quite literally ‘in dad’s shoes’ in buy to win a family day out of your choice worth £200.

The purpose of the campaign is to highlight the everlasting love between a daddy and his kids this Father’s Day­ my own personal much-loved is when Oliver, 5 looks into his Daddy’s eyes and says, ‘You’re my best friend, Daddy’.

No daddy can ask for a lot more than that, can they?!

Most importantly, proceeds from each and every fully priced Father’s Day card purchased on the Inkly app will be donated to despair Encounter, a crucial charity that supplies support to bereaved children.

It’s a devastating fact that around 23,600 children will lose a parent this year, but thanks to despair encounter they’ll always have access to quality support to help them during tough times.

For this year’s Father’s Day cards, I’ll be publishing these amazing photos of Oliver, 5 and Alexander, 2 wearing their Dad’s Converse trainers, which I created through the new ‘Moments’ feature in the Inkly app.

We also made this sweet film below you have to see, it’s one of my a lot of much-loved family films we’ve ever shot!

…Inkly is so utterly cool and unique, as along with personalising your cards with your own photos, you can write your message using a regular piece of paper and and a pen then once you’ve taken a photo of it, you can use the Inkly Cards app which removes the paper and leaves your message inside the card.

You can even handwrite your envelope and send globally but the cards are printed locally.

An environmentally friendly, easy to use, value for money, personal, quirky and cool card service like no other. We love them.

Now back to the competition. how charming do the kids look? I can’t even!

There’s something so sweet about little kids in big shoes. My clown-­like kids here really make me smile.

My only problem now is choosing which picture to use on the front of the card! now it’s your turn to get snap happy.

To take part in the competition simply take a photo of your kid wearing their dad’s shoes (anything goes from wellies to slippers to brogues and beyond ­ the a lot more creative the better!) and then publish to social media using the Inkly App’s complimentary ‘Moments’ feature.

It’s completely complimentary to download on both iOS and Android, and you can find out a lot more on

I nkly’s Facebook page.

Participants will be entered into a competition to win a family day out of their choice, up to the value of £200.00 and the winner will be picked at random.

The competition will end on 22/06/15.

UK only.

Good luck!



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DEAL WITH YOUR IN-LAWS

Yes, I’m talking about your baby’s other grandparents.

It seems like there are only two ways to go: the high road and the low road.

High road: become bff’s with your mother-in-law and never ever put your spouse in the middle. learn how to defuse even the most irritating situations with your good humor and self esteem in tact.

Check out the new book The Daughter-in-Law Rules: 101 Surefire ways to manage (and Make pals with) Your Mother-In-Law! for ideas on that path. Heather read the whole book in one sitting and is eagerly awaiting Carol’s next check out to kill her with kindness.

Low road: Bitch to your girlfriends and turn to the Internets for anonymous support. I might be inviting criticism here, but may I suggest that one way to deal with someone who annoys you is to complain about them to others who do not know them.

Either way, venting to your partner is a really bad idea when it’s his parents you’re bitching about. That’s, as Dionne Warwick would say, what pals are for. and today, that’s what the Internet is for.

A pal asked me to start this thread because at 8.5 months pregnant she is aware that everything that’s bothersome her now really could send her over the edge when her post-partum hormones kick in. She has given me the example that her mom told her mother-in-law in advance that she was going to buy the new baby a nice stroller, and then her mother-in-law went and bought that stroller herself, bothersome my pal and clearly stealing her mom’s thunder. who does that?

Use the comment link here as your opportunity to complain to someone who won’t send this URL to your mother in law. If you’re too shy, check out M.I.L.D.E.W. (Mother-in-laws do everything wrong – HA!) or Motherhood Uncensored for a feeling that your grass may in fact be greener.

The thing is, she’s here to stay, so get used to her. I sort of want to remind you that she did raise at least one child, and did a pretty darn good job. You must agree since you married him. but I’m not taking her side; I’m taking yours.

Be petty. Be irrational. just don’t be Dear Abby. let everyone who wants to complain wallow in her self-pity.