A person, a family, are far more than a collection of things, ailments, personalities, looks, interests and abilities. What I notice more than anything about having a large family, is how we all alter with each other; each little change brings about something new. With the exiting of Amelie from every day home ed, Maddy […]
Archives for 2013
Mrs MuddlePuddle by Helen Haricot – the tenth anniversary kick off!
This post first appeared on Petits Haricot, the blog of my lovely friend Helen and occasionally her dh Chris. Helen is kicking off my 10th anniversary with this post, which had me a bit weepy and all glowy 🙂 Thank you Helen – for everything. Merry /Mrs Muddlepuddle, queen of hama, friend and blogger has […]
10 years.
In a few weeks time, this blog will be ten years old. It's seen many things – some amazing, some terrible – over those 10 years and most of our life is captured inside it. But not all. Not everything I'm interested in, not everything there is to know about us. There are posts I've […]
Centerparcs Chocolate Challenge
As part of being a Centerparcs blogger, we do challenges for them – you can do them too and you might win a holiday. Easy Peasy 😉 The full details are at the Tots100 Blog including t&cs etc 🙂 Anyone who knows me knows I’m not too good at cookery but luckily Max does things […]
Moment.
This blog is suppose to capture moments. I thought Maddy's mockingjay pin from The Hunger Games, made in lego, was just so extraordinarily beautiful it deserved a post of its own. She is a genius, that girl.
You may Wonder.
I have a friend, who I have never met and who I share only a few things in common with, called Johnny Daukes. I’m not even sure how we came to be Facebook friends if I’m honest, perhaps through home educating. When Freddie died he was one of the people who checked up on me […]
Sponsored Post: Aptaclub Preparing for Birth IPhone App
Funny to think that I won’t ever need anything like this again. Bizarre to think that when I had Fran, when I needed organising in this sort of a way, no one really believed mobile phones would catch on, never mind imagine they’d be powerful handheld computers we couldn’t live without. It’s perhaps even odder […]
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Time not so long past, I was a woman with a gaggle of little girls at my knees, following me baby-duck-like, wherever we went. My whole girl famili-ness defined me as much as Hama Beads and crafting and selling things and always having two too many things to do. Slightly scruffy, free spirited but not […]
The Food Frontline; how support changes futures.
Last year an amazing group of parent bloggers and I came together to support the trip that Sian went on to Niger, launching the #ShareNiger campaign to raise awareness of the plight of families struggling against drought and hunger. We now sponsor 11 beautiful children between us from Tera and the letters that come back […]
Looks like we made it.
There are two truths universally known about motherhood. One is you will receive any home made cards. The other is the teenager years are hell and everyone will hate each other. This morning my nearly 15 year old snuck done early to give me the first of my Mother's Day cards. I did eventually get […]
