Life is full of challenges, one of the biggest of which is being able to manage our finances! Turn on the news and you can be almost certain that at least one of the stories will concern someone’s money issues, even the UK is battling through a “difficult economic climate”. Of course, no one said […]
Blogger Day Out: It’s a rotten smelly life!
Last week Amelie, Josie and I had a lot of fun down at the Pineapple Dance Studios filming a dance routine to celebrate the release of the new Anni film on DVD. With a home full of keen dancers and divas, I had a feeling it would be a popular day out and I was […]
Our Spring & Easter Crafts
Continuing in my marvellous ‘blogging it for next year’ tradition 😉 This years Easter crafting comes courtesy of our Bostik Bloggers box again. With the girls getting bigger now I either get LOTS of collaboration or none – I need Bene to get a bit bigger and start to want to make things too! This […]
Sponsored video: Flavour of Home.
The new Knorr “Flavour of Home” campaign has got me thinking about how we changed our meals for the better in this house. Not long after milk intolerance hit the household, Max made the bold step into proper home cooked food for the family every day, with meals always eaten together around the table and […]
Willpower and me. Ways round my rule breaking habits.
I spend an awful lot of time coming up with ‘sensible’ ways to reward myself, my children and the family in general for the mundane nature of life these days. This is mainly because I have an awful lot of NOT SENSIBLE ways of rewarding that I really need to break as habits. I let […]
Watching our Solar System by Live Feed in a Safe Environment.
I’ve just done a quick check to find out what the schools our kids go to are doing to help kids experience the eclipse tomorrow. The answer, unsurprisingly and in keeping with a lot of other schools, is they won’t be allowed to be outside to feel the world go dark and hear the birds […]
Don't blink.
I don’t know what I’ve written in previous Mother’s Day posts. Tears, pain, joy, gratefulness, love. The whole caboodle. Mother’s Day is best sidled up to when someone is missing. It’s not about gifts or even about being special. Perhaps it’s about remembering the duties. Perhaps it’s seeing the space or choosing not to. They […]
Sponsored Post: Working Mum?
Long term readers (are you still there?!?!) will know I’ve been an unconventional working mum for a long time. I’ve always been at least partly at home with my children and fitted working in around them – or sometimes the other way round. I was asked to write about a course that aims to help […]
Almost 5 years.
We’ve been listening to Wolf Hall; Max is highly familiar with it, having read it several times over the last few years. I’ve always shied away from it. I’m not sure why I haven’t wanted to read it, perhaps in case the hype felt overdone and the book disappointed me. I’m a huge fan of […]
Happy birthday baby boy.
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
