Welcome to my #LittleLoves post for this week. I cannot believe that we are at Friday already, time zips by like the blink of an eye and I sometimes find myself wondering has it really been a week?! Did I miss a few days? Has a fast forward button been invented and I wasn’t told or am I just getting old and maybe losing a few hours or days for that matter? It is worrying though as I feel like I am not achieving enough in seven days, how the hell can I get anything done when I so much as cough and a week flies by?…
Welcome to another week of #FessUpFriday This weeks #FessUpFriday instalment comes from Emma from ‘Me And B Make Tea‘. Emma is a 35-year-old blogger from Weston-Super-Mare, She first began blogging to record the food that she made for herself and her little boy ‘B’ , from there her blog began including posts to document the pros of living in such a beautiful country. Why Do We Bother? Eating Out With a Toddler… The question I pose here is the following: Why do I continually think it is a good idea to eat out with our two year old? Each time we have a horrific meal out, I swear to mr d that we will never, ever, EVER do it again.…
As I’ve already mentioned in a recent post, we have been keeping our eyes peeled for an elevated wooden playhouse for E. I have spent a fair few hours trawling the web to try to seek out a ‘shed on stilts’ but struggled to find anything under £200 which was worth the money. Last week Paul somehow found the perfect playhouse which needed some work but was fairly priced and was being sold locally. After some serious sweating and swearing my Father in Law and Hubby managed to move said ‘shed on stilts’ from just around the corner to our back garden.…
Welcome to another week of #LivingArrows. It seems the sun has decided to stay and is literally sizzling us under its rays. Today is particularly scorching hot and so whilst taking five under the parasol I also took some sunshine shots of my little sweetheart playing. Please excuse the grass it’s too flipping hot to mow the lawn, we are melting not mowing! So here goes, here are my two photos for #LivingArrows this week. We are still in the process of completing ‘Project Playhouse’, meanwhile E is quite happy to play in the unfinished project as you can see 🙂 Her driving skills however really need some work, she will happily race towards random objects at full pelt with no worries of getting hurt and seems to think that it’s just fine to reverse over her Mummy’s feet whilst I try to help her steer and such like.…
Well, it didn’t take Lady Luck long to pack her bags and ‘do one’. Almost as soon as I finished writing my previous post filled with all the wonderful things which had been happening to us, I was delivered a great pile of crap from the gods above. It all began when HolidayGems contacted us to let us know that they could no longer honour the price that had originally quoted us online as “it simply wasn’t possible”. I spent ten to fifteen minutes on the phone speaking arguing with some guy that seemed to think that it was highly amusing that I had ever believed it to be possible to achieve an all-inclusive holiday for the price that their website had actually quoted. …
I have a bit of a thing about wooden toys, our house is therefore cluttered with a vast array of traditional toys one of which is this ELC Farm Set which both of our children love. E decided to really ‘get into’ playing with this the other day and I couldn’t help but to take a photo. It was adorable watching her curled up on the toy box talking to the moo cows… …
I seem to have struck it lucky over this past week, the stars must be aligned or some other rubbish but whatever has been going on to send Lady Luck my way I am not complaining that’s for sure! She is forever welcome in this house, we need all the luck that we can get. It began at the weekend when my friends and I visited Cartmel Races. I decided to put a few bets on the horses as you do after all when in Rome… I have never bet upon the horses in my life before now unless you count a few tickets on the Grand National over the years.…
Welcome to another week of #LittleLoves, I have once again had a busy week (when don’t Mums have busy weeks?) as it is half term. I love it when my children are both off together and we can spend time together as a family, since Paul has increased his hours at work though it is hard knowing just how to keep both of the kids amused until their Daddy arrives home to complete our team. It has actually been surprisingly easy this week thanks to the wonderful weather that we seem to be having, Summer is certainly here and its blumming glorious!…
This weeks #FessUpFriday is written by Sarah from www.mumzilla.co.uk Sarah is Mummy to a small boy in the midst of muddling through the transition from being a working Mum to a stay at home mum. Blogging is the one way which Sarah says she keeps her mind working. Whilst Sarah admits that the term ‘Mumzilla‘ may come across as some type of alpha-Mum, she actually says that she is actually far more the ‘bumbling around knocking things over’ kind of Mother, trying to muddle through.Sarah’s blog is written from the heart and her posts are a light-hearted yet honest account of parenting a young boy.…
I cannot believe that we are already into the May half term. I feel likes only yesterday that I was packing away the Christmas tree and yet here we are with the wafts of BBQ smoke and freshly cut grass. I love Summer but it seems to have snuck up on me this year. The last two weeks have literally flown by leaving me wondering whether it really happened, did our son really just turn seven? Did we really manage to have a successful party without overspending or over thinking the whole thing? Was I really standing at the front of the crowd singing along to Simply Red like a drunken loon with such lovely ladies this weekend?…
Welcome to another week of #LivingArrows. I have barely taken any pictures of the kids this week, go ahead and slap my wrist as I must obviously be a terrible Mother far too self consumed to concentrate on her children, that or I’ve been far too busy actually spending time entertaining my munchkins rather than spending time taking snap shots. Take your pick, I know for sure which the answer is. I am therefore resorting to ‘pinching pictures’ from the hubbys phone for this weeks #LivingArrows contribution. I am actually fairly impressed by these photos given that they were taken with a phone, a phone that hasn’t got a piece of fruit engraved onto the back that is!…
I had such an amazing day at Cartmel Races yesterday that I thought I ought to share one of my favourite snaps from the evening, when I saw ‘Simply Red’ live in concert along with two of my good friends Vicky and Viv. May I take this opportunity to thank the ladies for a fantastic day out, let’s be sure to do it all again girls!…
Welcome to another week of #FessUpFriday This weeks #FessUpFriday instalment comes from Karen Dennis, a Mum, Step Mum and Grandparent from North Devon. In the past Karen has worked as a child minder and pre-school development worker, she therefore has plenty of experience with children! Karen now blogs as ‘TheNextBestThingToMum’ over at https://karendennis1.wordpress.com When I was child minding, a child pulled down another child’s trousers and pants, this just happened to take place in front of an Ofsted inspector. The child told her “We always get naked at Karen’s house!” I would like to thank Karen for sharing a short, sweet but side-splitting ‘Friday Funny’ for this weeks #FessUpFriday.…
Welcome to another week of #LittleLoves. It’s been a busy week as we are on the count down to half term and suddenly it seems like there are a hundred and one jobs which all need to be done before the weekend. It’s been hectic and my heads not really in the game as such thanks to having a crappy chest infection but I’ll give it my best shot, so here goes. Read I purchased a years ‘Ideal Home’ magazine subscription last February and whilst I am fairly sure that I should no longer be receiving a copy of this mag each month, I don’t mind if I do!…
Welcome to another week of ‘Living Arrows‘. Each week I share two photographs of my children to celebrate their progress in the walk of life. Here are this weeks contributions: Here is my super seven-year old with his favourite Birthday gift. In this photo he is of course playing Minecraft, his favourite game that he was also given for his birthday. J will soon be joining the local Minecraft club and attending meetings each Friday to do whatever it is you do on the game that I can only liken to catnip for kids. I am pretty sure that he will enjoy the new club as from what I’ve heard it’s right up his street.…
Gosh is it Sunday already? Where is time disappearing to these days? There’s something rather worrying about how time speeds up when you become a parent, I am beginning to feel like my life is on fast forward and it’s just passing me by way too quickly. How the hell is my little boy seven already? Just how did that happen so quickly? Someone once said “blink and you’ve missed it” and I am beginning to think that they were right, I must learn to stop blinking because time is blinking-well flying by! Here is our beautiful birthday boy having just opened two of his favourite characters on his big day. …
It has been precisely one month since we first began ‘mission potty training’ with our Little Princess. I am proud to report that our little lady has mastered the art of using the potty and even better, the toilet too! E no longer requires nappies during the daytime which has already saved us a small fortune and a ton of bag space, which meant that I could finally treat myself to a new handbag, cheers Princess! Starting Out The first few days were difficult in all honesty, we asked E whether she needed the potty every ten to twenty minutes and I was beginning to feel like a broken record.…
Welcome to this weeks #LittleLoves, it’s been a fairly hectic week with preparing for my son turning seven and so I haven’t really done a great deal of watching, reading or anything remotely relaxing. There are however a few bits and pieces that I have shown a particular love for during this week and will of course share these with you. Read I keep meaning to sit down, relax and get into a new book but I never seem to find the time. I spend a lot of my free time either reading blogs or blogging myself and really other than catching up with the soaps, I just don’t seem to get a moment to kick back and to devour a book from cover to cover.…
This weeks #FessUpFriday is written by Kate from www.confessionsofanewmummy.co.uk Kate is a married Mum of two from Norfolk whom began blogging shortly after becoming a Mum as a way to record those precious ‘first moments’ and to share her thoughts upon Motherhood. Kate also shares her crafting projects and the progress upon renovating her recently purchased home along with a whole host of other topics with her many readers. Back in October 2012, E would have been approximately 10 weeks. We had a mixed first few weeks, I absolutely loved being a Mum but in the first couple of weeks after giving birth I was very poorly with a haemorrhage and recovery made breastfeeding a struggle.…
Dear J I cannot believe that it was seven years ago to this day that you arrived in our lives, our first-born child. From the moment that I held you in my arms, your steel-blue eyes looking into mine, my life changed forever. I never knew that I could feel a love as strong as I do for you, you became my new World, my new life and my reason for being. Becoming a parent has made me a better person because I now live my life through my children, seeing the World from a new perspective, from a new set of eyes and with new hope.…
