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I was only just watching him….

January 30, 2015 by

I was right there, sat in the room with him, keeping an eye. I only got up for a minute, just to pop some books back on the shelf. Okay, he was a bit precariously balanced but he was quiet, behaving well, busy playing on the dresser edge with something or other. So I just […]

Filed Under: Benedict Tagged With: Lego up nose

A day at Twycross Zoo

January 28, 2015 by

There are photos of a hot sunny day in 2000/2001 in our photo albums (yes, that’s right, back in the days when photos were PAPER) of our eldest 2 and my brother on a day at Twycross. Back then it needed 3 adults to manage 2 children and Rich counted close enough 😉 I remember […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Trips Out Tagged With: Comic Relief, endangered animals, family day out, Pick Your Nose day prize, Twycross Zoo, Weetabix

Happy birthday baby boy.

January 27, 2015 by

There are more thoughtful words I’d like to write but best not done tonight. Happy birthday Benedict. Thank you for the happiest 3 years of my life x

Filed Under: Uncategorized

16 years of baby bathtime #voiceofmums

January 27, 2015 by

Like many parenting moments, you never realise that ‘this’ is the last time you’ll bath one of them. One minute they are shrieking for you to save them from the evils of ‘shampoo eye’ while you moan at them for still not being able to run (or partake of) a bath without major parental involvement […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life Tagged With: #voiceofmums, bath time, bringing up children, cussons, parenting

Treat Yourself (25% off Mother's Day Flowers)

January 22, 2015 by

Mother’s Day is always a funny thing. For one it comes so close after Xmas and my birthday that there is never anything I want as a gift (well, smelly bath stuff is always welcome) and for a second, getting gifts because I got lucky and got to be a mummy, seems a bit of […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: buy mothers day bouquet, debenhams flower discount code, mothers day gifts

Soothing Stitches: WIP Update.

January 18, 2015 by

Being determined to start the year by getting on top of some of my works in progress has been good for me. I do get irritated by having half finished projects under the bed but I get distracted so quickly. It’s terrible. First to find itself no longer half done is the Dartmoor pillow, which […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Crochet, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: #UseUpYarnYear, crochet, knitting, wips

Educating Josie.

January 17, 2015 by

“How many people are there in the world?” It’s a pretty typical question for the 10 year old, an age where scale and numbers are beginning to make sense and an understanding of the wider world is something that can be grasped and considered. We talked about there being 7 billion people and about how […]

Filed Under: HE Politics, Home Education, Josie Tagged With: flexi-schooling, Home Education, home tutoring

Nearly 3.

January 16, 2015 by

The boy will be 3 next week. Hard to believe that the bump that felt like it would never be born, who became Marmite and who was that terrifying, ever sleeping, jaundiced scrap of a baby for so long, is now a wild, walking, talking, dustbin lorry loving little boy. My Timehop from a year […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Family Life, Photos Tagged With: 3 years old, benedict, bringing up a boy

She's that certain age.

January 14, 2015 by

I turned 41 this week. That’s well into the ‘I can remember my mum and dad being 41’ realms of “oh my dragons, I’m old” band, right along side, “this means I am 7 years younger than my mum was when I made her a granny” (SHRIEK). 41 is okay. It’s better than dead, anyway, […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: being old, birthday, growing old

Soothing Stitches: A Year of Yarning Frugally. #UseUpYarnYear

January 4, 2015 by

Like most avid knitters and crocheters, I have a yarn stash that would see us through WW3… if only it were edible. My King Sized bed is mainly propped up by boxes of yarn bought for projects that overran or overspilled or never got started or became a work in progress. There is a sizeable […]

Filed Under: Creative Every Day, Crochet, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: #UseUpYarnYear, crafts, crochet, decluttering, frugal crafting, knitting, yarn

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