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Here we are.

March 25, 2012 by

I thought today that it is now nearly 2 years since Freddie was born and lived and died and in a week or so, creeping up, will come his birthday. I don’t know how we got here. I don’t know how we made it. I’ve had 2 babies in 2 years and it took forever […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief Tagged With: joy after grief, losing a baby, loss of child, new baby after neonatal death, remembering Freddie, subsequent baby

Win £30 of Djeco Toys or Craft Kits

March 24, 2012 by

Recently I asked some fellow bloggers to help me with some reviews of Djeco toys and crafts, which are some of my absolute favourite products. They really did me proud and here is a round up of the products they tried out. I’m always on the look out for other bloggers interested in reviewing products, […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire Tagged With: djeco toys, djeco voucher giveaway

8 weeks old

March 22, 2012 by

The last two weeks have been little short of a feeding frenzy. Sometimes Ben has gone for 8 solid hour feeds, screaming the house down if I even go to the loo. We have gots bit more of a routine going, we’ve even had a day out and he and I are lucky that I […]

Filed Under: Benedict Tagged With: 8 week old newborn, breast feeding, formula & breastfeeding, helping a small baby to thrive, jaundice, mixed feeding, top up feeds

Building it up with Lego.

March 21, 2012 by

Like I said below, I’ve been setting the girls little Lego challenges over the last week. I hadn’t seen the Legoquest blog someone linked to in the comments below which was exactly what I was looking for to inspire me (doh, I am hopeless at successful google-ing); I wanted a Lego equivalent to Sketch Tuesday. […]

Filed Under: Lego Tagged With: building ideas with lego, kids lego challenge, lego flickr group, weekly lego challenge

Gonna build a house.

March 19, 2012 by

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been setting the girls a daily Lego challenge to try and stretch their ingenuity a little. They love their Lego but tend to want to build to plans from kits or make floor plans of buildings and play within those. That’s fine so far as it goes, but […]

Filed Under: Lego Tagged With: building a house, external doors, home ed maths projects, lego

Getting school life taped.

March 18, 2012 by

We are approaching the end of the 2nd term of having one child in school, unless you peddle in the pointless currency of 6 term years like this school does. I’m not sure that was worth the effort of rebranding personally; I only work in 3 terms and I suspect it will go the way […]

Filed Under: Fran, Home Education Tagged With: name tapes, school after home education, school life, team sports

Daffodils at WedEd

March 16, 2012 by

Wednesday this week marked a a big improvement in things generally. Not only was I able to drive myself to WedEd or the first time since having Ben but he was also manageable enough for me to be able to get on with being part of the educational offerings again.So this week I brought “Daffodils” […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Benedict, Drawing, Fimo Models, Home Education, Photos, Poems, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: daffodils by wordsworth, daffodils poem, fimo daffodils, home education day, making batteries, poetry appreciation with children

Lego Friends Range Review

March 13, 2012 by

There has been a good deal of debate recently about the new Lego Friends range, a role-play style, very pink range of Lego aimed primarily at girls. Much of that debate centred more, in fact, on the decision to alter girl magazine subscriptions to a girl version, which didn’t go down well, but the Lego […]

Filed Under: Lego Tagged With: lego, lego for girls, Lego Friends, lego Friends review, pink Lego

A Weekend in 4×4 Photos

March 13, 2012 by

We had a lovely weekend. When we got to the end of of it I was able to send this tweet:- “Crafting done, TKD belt earned, rugby played, PDF published, milk pumped, baby slinged and fed, walk had, knitting achieved. Good day.” I thought that was fairly productive really. Saturday was the normal round of […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Freddie, Sport & Dance, Trips Out Tagged With: girls rugby, nature walk, race for life, thinking about grief, TKD, walking

6 weeks old

March 10, 2012 by

So I should be back to normal by now 😉 However, it would be fair to say that while I am indeed a very contented mother, I’m not following, or indeed indulging in, any methods expounded by certain parenting ‘gurus’. Hmmmm. Ben has eyelashes, real proper ones with darkness to them that you can see. […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict Tagged With: 6 week old baby, subsequent child after infant loss

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