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More Sport Hama Bead Designs & Home Ed Life.

June 30, 2012 by

So the Olympics are coming and my sporty girls have entered into the spirit it and helped me get some Hama Bead patterns together. They’ve been very creative and we’ve put a free set of ideas (I’ve lost my design disk… again 🙁 ) on BeadMerrily for Hama Bead enthusiasts. There are a few Maddy […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads Tagged With: free hama bead designs, free sport hama bead ideas, gold medal in hama beads, hama bead gymnast, hama bead medals, hama bead olympic torch, hama bead swimmer, hama beads, ideas for olympic crafts, olympics in hama beads, taekwondo in hama beads

When I was just a little boy…

June 28, 2012 by

Dear Ben, You are 5 months old. You are part of us. You have been here long enough that your sisters don’t always want to marvel over you and sometimes want to hand you back. This is amazing; I hope you will never know how amazing. This month they have forgiven the world enough not […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Letters to Bene Tagged With: 5 month old, baby at 5 months, baby blowing raspberries, baby learning to sit, early sound copying

Coming up for air. Breastfeeding amendments.

June 24, 2012 by

A few days ago I admitted defeat over exclusive breast feeding. It hasn’t really worked for Bene and I all that well; he has gained weight brilliantly (he’s over 16lbs at just short of five months, which given he was 5 1/2 lbs at one point is quite impressive) and he sleeps all night which […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Fimo Models, Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: 5 months, breast feeding, hungry baby, mixed feeding, weaning, weaning to solids

Finished it Friday: Ben's Cardigan

June 22, 2012 by

I fear I left it too long with this one. I started it when he was a few weeks old and got distracted, thought it wouldn’t matter because he was so small and then he got huge through doing all the feeding that stopped me knitting and now this is clearly only going to fit […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Creative Every Day, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: blue baby cardigan, easy baby knitting, finished it friday, green baby cardigan, knitted baby cardigan, sirdar baby crofter, sirdar patterns

Are we lucky or damn near perfect? Teenager rearing.

June 22, 2012 by

I reckon this post will come back to bite me on the posterior. I can nearly guarantee when in fact; I reckon I have just under 2 years before I’m holding my head in my hands and wailing ‘WHAT was I thinking?’ If it happens sooner than that, it is conclusive proof of that unwritten […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Fran, Uncategorized Tagged With: 50's family life, Cherie Blair, family law solicitors, family life, funny teenagers, parenting, parenting teens, SNORT at Cherie Blaire, teenagers, The House the Fifties Built, yummy mummies

Stuff we do.

June 21, 2012 by

I’ve got a post coming up sometime soon on why it’s been such a very long stream of at home days for so long and what we are doing about it, but while life has been mostly home, we’ve got on and done nice things. It’s been the mostly lovely, healing 4 months forums. We’ve […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Cookery, Hama Beads, Home Education, Photos Tagged With: baking, drawing manga, drawing Pokemon, felt sewing, kentwell sewing, making toys, Olympic Hama beads, wood work

This Baby Likes

June 19, 2012 by

I’ve not had a new idea for a while but now that the fogs of the last couple of years are lifting, I’m finally starting to get that old brain back. I like new projects. I REALLY like new websites. And I wanted to make something out of all this blogging that I would be […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire Tagged With: baby development blog, connect with mums online, new blog, newborn stories, real babies, real mums, This Baby Likes

Review: Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Video Sensor Monitor

June 18, 2012 by

You might remember that I posted a while ago about needing to move Ben into his own bed, for the sake of my sanity as much as anything. He slept in my bed on one side of a king sized mattress for the first 12 weeks or so. He’s been a really good sleeper from […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Reviews Tagged With: Apnoea mat for babies, Baby monitor, Closer to Nature Video Sensor Monitor, positive review for Tommee Tippee baby monitor with sensor mat, Tommee Tippee Monitor

WedEd: sewing, electromagnets (possibly) and The Listeners.

June 14, 2012 by

Yesterday was a good day. After a slow start my spirits soared as we came within a tiny distance of sponsoring six children in Niger, I was feeling disappointed in what I had achieved but actually, it suddenly struck me that in 3 days bloggers and readers of blogs have pledged £1700. We are going […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Poems, Science, Thinking, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: #shareniger, babies, learning to sit up, making electromagnets, making small sewn items with kids, poetry with kids, sewing with felt, The Listeners Poem, Walter De La Mare

Ramble ramble.

June 13, 2012 by

I’ve got a gazillion this to catch up on blogging wise. Oh how I miss the olden days when I could blog at 5pm each day about what we had done. I’m caught between feeling we do nothing and seeing what a huge amount actually goes on around here. There is masses of conversation ed […]

Filed Under: Cookery, Family Life, Home Education Tagged With: baking, bringing up baby, budgeting, electricty prices, Home Education, learnign to budget, school education, sewing, tudor costumes

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