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Sponsored Video: Vote for a Piggy!

December 9, 2012 by

You might remember recently that I wrote the post about the NatWest Piggie competition. Well, I’m popping up again to ask you to ask you to vote for your favourite of the winners. We didn’t make the shortlist but looking at the entries, I think the quality was high enough for us not to feel […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Looking ahead

November 29, 2012 by

Post Laser Eye Surgery Max’s post is below, but since he’s had all the limelight on this one, I thought I might reclaim the top spot and give you my two penny worth first 😉 This has genuinely been the oddest thing. Max wore lenses when I first knew him and was quite vain about […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #team21, laser eye surgery, Optical Express

November you can kiss my….

November 29, 2012 by

It seems November is determined to compete with April for crapola. It's been a really tough month. For the sake of argument we will include here the last two events of October. First there was my cork plugging op, which sadly did not go entirely as planned or hoped. To the best of my knowledge […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Maddy Tagged With: argh, balanitis, essure, eye surgery, illness, stress, swollen thyroid, worry

A walk.

November 26, 2012 by

It shouldn't seem like a big thing, because it isn't. Only it is, because the last 3 years I've really struggled to go out without another adult. It's a much bigger problem than I've wanted to admit and I've hidden it better than I might have because there is usually Max or a friend to […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Grief, Home Education, The Girls, Trips Out

The Voice.

November 25, 2012 by

I have been a very flawed parent over the years, busy, impatient, a little too wrapped in my own agenda, tired, easily annoyed. Three things have altered that until the current, not too bad model emerged; the endless companionship, support and influence of my husband Max, who is the calm ordered opposite of my flighty […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life Tagged With: babies are people, breastfeeding, bringing up baby, bsbies fter loss, co-sleeping, litening to your baby, motherhood, no-cry sleep solutions, parenthood

I can see clearly now…

November 22, 2012 by

Here is Max’s account of the day of his Laser Eye surgery with Optical Express. I may possibly have annotated it a bit. Perhaps. The Day of Surgery So, the day of the eye surgery has come around, pretty quickly really and my overwhelming thoughts are “this isn’t really going to happen” and any time […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #team21, laser eye surgery, Optical Express

Sponsored Post: Oh Christmas Tree!

November 22, 2012 by

Seems a good time to remind you of some of the Christmas resources I have floating about. There is the Christmas Crafts section on here but I am slowly moving some of those on to Simple Crafts so they are easier to find. There are also lots of new crafts on there too including this […]

Filed Under: Christmas Crafts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christmas decorations, christmas fimo, christmas hama beads, Christmas lights, Christmas trees, pinterest christmas crafts

It's like, fashion, right?

November 22, 2012 by

Being a bear of very little style, my children get most of their fashion sense from Groovy Girls and friends, most noticeably the daughters of my lovely arty real life friend Zoe (who has a mean art blog these days!) Zoe's girls have style in clothes and artistic ability and my girls love both theirchandmedowns […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Drawing, Josie Tagged With: drawing clothes, fashion design, history, learning about fashion

That moment.

November 21, 2012 by

When programmes celebrating the past decades come up on television, the things that make me ooh and aah are often the brand names on the shop shelves of bygone shops; products in packaging once so familiar, which reprise in more modern form in our cupboards now. Custard powder packets, golden syrup, soaps and cleaning products, […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, The Girls Tagged With: brands, Lil-lets, menstruation, periods, pubert, tampons, teen pads

Just educatin'… with a Twinkl.

November 18, 2012 by

Some weeks have a pleasant groove and this was one of them. I used to write posts where it felt like we did this much in a day; these days we mostly go at a slower pace and while it might seem like less is achieved in some ways, so much comes out of the […]

Filed Under: Maths, Reviews

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