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Winners of Sea-Band packs & Velcro Kids House

August 27, 2011 by

Popping in from a couple of days break to bring you the winners of the give aways on the blog last week (it feels like a whole heap of similar things has come at once, normal service to be resumed soon I promise!) First of all, winners of the packs of Sea-Band products are:- Comment […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Trauma and tears at ENT

August 24, 2011 by

Fran (who has given me permission to write this latest twist in her cleft care on the blog) had a routine trip to the ENT department this week. She was referred by her Cleft team surgeon and speech therapist, who were concerned by her hoarse voice, which has developed over the last year or so. […]

Filed Under: Fran Tagged With: cleft lip and palate, cleft lip speech problems, cleft palate as a teen, cleft palate hearing problems, reflux damage to voice box, soft palate repairs, vocal chord nodules

Under the Sea Party Costumes

August 23, 2011 by

At the weekend we attended the yearly fancy dress party over at The Beans. It was, as usual, an excellent do, though missing some of the usual suspects this year, but lovely anyway. I completely forgot to take photos, so I thought I’d mark the occasion with a display of our rather excellent costumes. They […]

Filed Under: Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: easy home made fancy dress, jelly fish costume, nemo costume, ray fish costume, turtle costume, under the sea fancy dress

Pressure or Suggestion? The result was certainly positive anyway.

August 22, 2011 by

Since the girls were little, we’ve had bouts of travel sickness that have afflicted the middle two girls at various times. To some extent it has always depended on the car we have – and moving to people carriers solved a lot of the problem – but both Maddy and Amelie have always found long […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: accupuncture bands, morning sickness remedy, motion sickness treatment, sea-band, travel sickness remedies

Dreams : One : Two : Three

August 21, 2011 by

We forgot to go to Freddie’s funeral. We were busy, the girls were alive and needed us and life goes on and… oh my word, it was today and we forgot. Max was okay with it; after all, it was just a procedure, he didn’t need us there, the girls needed us. It was just […]

Filed Under: Grief, Pregnancy After Loss, Thinking Tagged With: baby loss, grief, infant loss, pregnancy after infant loss, pregnancy after neonatal death

Definitely stuck on this house! (Win a Velcro House!)

August 19, 2011 by

My children are incredibly lucky; since they were small, having a mum who sells toys and crafty stuff has meant they have had opportunities to try out all manner of things. It is possible that the new Velcro Kids House is the best thing ever though 🙂 They’ve decorated, they’ve performed with it and they’ve […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Merrily Empire Tagged With: carboard play house, cardboard wendy house, dkl, make your own playhouse, Velcro Kids

Camping it up.

August 15, 2011 by

I could start this post by saying we are confirmed campers. When I think about it though, I haven’t actually had a proper tent holiday since before I was pregnant with Freddie. I can’t even pinpoint it now. Maybe the Summer before but I think not, so probably even the summer before that. If it […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: caravan holidays, choice of caravan insurance, family life, family time, tent holidays, travelling, WWOOFing

It's not much but it's home.

August 14, 2011 by

One of the things I had intended to do this year was make our home more… well… homely. When we first moved here we were all of a dither with big stuff that had been going on. The move was a rush job anyway, one that certainly took the then 18 month old Josie by […]

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: child stress, coffee tables, decorating, family life, furniture, home, interesting coffee tables, living, magnolia houses, making your home cosy, moving house, rubbish parenting, untidy children

Silent Sunday

August 14, 2011 by

Filed Under: Photos

Defying Gravity

August 13, 2011 by

This is the name of the song which has been sung around here so much recently that eventually I sent an email to the girls theatre teacher informing them that she was likely to get custody of them quite soon 😆 This week they were at a workshop, rehearsing a short version of the show […]

Filed Under: Children & Grief, Merrily Empire, Pregnancy After Loss, Sport & Dance Tagged With: business ownership, cardboard wendy houses, children and grief, drama, Gotz dolls, grief, Kiddicare, merrily toys, pregnancy, small business, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

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