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The only fail safe cure.

January 20, 2012 by

Last Saturday I woke up with what became an increasingly bad pain under my bump. It stopped me walking properly, or getting in and out of chairs, beds or up and down stairs. It didn’t feel like anything particularly terrible, more a muscle or something but as the day went on every movement became more […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: doctoralia, midnight out of hours dashes to hospital with kids, mystifying pain, pregnancy bump pain

The Puddlechicks and allergies.

January 15, 2012 by

When people list protection from allergies as one of the many benefits of breast feeding, you should not mistake my derisive snort as being one which dismisses breast feeding in general. I am a passionate breastfeeding supporter, though I have done so with mixed success. It is just that, in this particular house, my children […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Family Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: asthma, cashew nut allergy pistachio allergy, eczema, lactose intolerance, milk allergy, milk intolerance, milk protein allergy, nut allergies, tree nut allergies

Fit for a Princess

January 12, 2012 by

We were very lucky to be offered a free sample of a gorgeous Princess Tent to review recently. It’s true our princess days are probably close to over here, Josie at 7 is not especially pink in nature, but I just knew a couple of little nieces who would love it – and I’m always […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: canvas wendy house, pink princess tent, princess castle tent, toy tent

Out with the old.

January 8, 2012 by

Blogging has been on the quiet side recently because I’ve been keeping very busy. A year of trying to keep busy, the endless run of taxi driving and then the worry and weariness of pregnancy has taken its toll on the house. Somehow the last couple of months of the year felt even busier than […]

Filed Under: Creative Every Day, Family Life, Knitting & Sewing, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2011, decluttering, knitted rainbow baby blanket

A New Year.

January 2, 2012 by

The last two years I did a New Years Eve post, one full of hope and joy, one full of anger and despair. This year I didn’t think I would take the risk. In fact, looking back at the festive period this year, I think I got through it all by just deciding not to […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: coping with new year after losing a child, freddie, grief, infant loss, losing a child

33 weeks pregnant

December 31, 2011 by

An extra few weeks of pregnant seems to have passed since I last blogged it. I suppose Christmas does that to time. For ages we’ve had ‘just get past Christmas’ as our mantra, known in our head that work and stuff would keep us busy and that then there would just be January and a […]

Filed Under: Pregnancy After Loss, Uncategorized Tagged With: 33 weeks pregnant, cord position in pregnancy, pregnancy in difficultcircumstances, pregnant after losing a baby, reassurance scans that make you more worried

Christmas

December 24, 2011 by

It hasn’t been quite the run up to Christmas that I planned; work, school, the pantomime, camp and pregnancy have combined to mean no time, lots of stress and very little blogging of Christmas crafty stuff, never mind doing it. We have done some things together but I lost my Christmas joy somewhere along the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Grief, Uncategorized Tagged With: busy children, children in professional pantomimes, family Christmas, family Christmas when a child has died, family life, life after loss

Finished it Friday: Baby Nina's Blanket

December 16, 2011 by

My sister had her baby (of whom there is a photo at the bottom) in the early hours of November and remarked over the coming days that the poor little soul, coming after a brother and a huge baby clear out) had no pink of her own. So I said I would give her one, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Knitting & Sewing, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby blanket gift, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Baby Blanket, double seed stitch, Knitted baby blanket free pattern, knitting, knitting for babies, pink baby blanket, purple baby blanket

Learning to Read (version 4) with Reading Eggs

December 7, 2011 by

I want to preface this by saying that we were given some Reading Eggs books free of charge to try out by the company so that we could review them, but that we have also already been paid up members of the site for 6 months. We also bought the first set of books ourselves; […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Josie, Uncategorized Tagged With: how do home educated children learn to read, learn to read websites, learning to read, reading eggs, reading eggs access code, reading eggs websites

Corolle Dolls Lila Crying Baby Doll Give Away Competition

November 28, 2011 by

This weeks give away, thanks to DKL, is for a Corolle Lila Crying Baby Doll. She’s an adorable 42cm doll who has been hugely popular this year, regularly selling out of all the stock in the country. She retails at £54.95 and does all the typical feature doll things – cooing, crying, giggling and sucking […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Corolle Doll Giveaway, Corolle Dolls, crying baby doll, Lila Doll

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