Being a Mum!

Things to do with your Kids this Autumn

Family in Autumn
The days are getting shorter, and the weather is getting colder. But that doesn't mean that you and your kids have to huddle up indoors watching the TV. Spending time outoors when young can kick-start a lifelong love for adventure, and what better hobby for your children to have than to spend their time outdoors?
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The Storm Whale – My Review

Psychologists have found that presence is the key to great parenting and yet also maintain that growing a capacity for fertile solitude is a developmental achievement for the child. London-based illustrator and animation director Benji Davies reconciles these two contradictory demands with enormous tenderness and thoughtfulness in The Storm Whale (public library) — a beautiful belated
Being a Mum!

Being a Ginger Haired Woman and Mummy!

My Mother was ginger, her dad was ginger and ages before him all had ginger hair. Ultimately, my Daughter is ginger. She is my smaller than normal me and I am genuinely happy that I have passed my carefulness onto her – being ginger is unique, something to be glad for. Such huge numbers of individuals
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MyNameTags Giveaway – with Boots

I really hate spending precious time labeling clothes, as a busy mummy. Kids lose a lot of stuff when they are at school it seems or they swap parts of their PE kits without realising! If you want to have a chance at keeping their clothes you must label them clearly! My Nametags recently got
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About Me – My Story and Where I Come From!

When you turn into a parent everything changes. You don't appear to get an opportunity to do anything. When I had enormous J it was the day preceding my 22nd birthday. I didn't have any pastimes I just appreciated doing 'couple' things with Daddy. Regardless of whether it was going the silver screen or for
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Today’s Giveaway! – Trickin’ Camel!

Advent giveaway time is almost here again! Book mark or pin this page so that you can come back every day to enter for new prizes! See below for this year’s schedule and find out more about this year’s prizes in our Christmas 2015 Gift Guide We’ve been trying out some fun family games from Megableu,
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Miraclesuit Costume For Swimming

Swimming is something my children do enjoy and love it when we get to spend the morning swimming. However… I ALWAYS feel really uncomfortable in what I wear. My stomach is quite pronounced as I am constantly bloated and I have a lack of support in the breast department. I just feel really awkward and hate going swimming.
Reviews

Time Tokens Review

It was easier to persuade him to do his homework, go to bed or eat veggies! Fed up with emotionally draining battles over screen-time, Amanda and Harry set about inventing a system that would work for both of them – Time Tokens was born. It worked so simply and effectively, soon temper tantrums were a thing of
Being a Mum!

Making Things Just Happen!

Courtesy of the ladies over at And Sew We Craft we have been doing a Photo a Day challenge again this month, December 2015. I started strong but now I’m playing catch up. Nevertheless I thought I’d share my pictures so far. The more I think about it, I think what makes a pattern one of
Baby Must Haves

Caboodle Bag – Throwback!

Being a kid or a teen in the '90s, means you grew up right on the cusp of some major social changes.You went from working out many duplicates of a superstitious junk letter on folio paper with an erasable ballpoint pen, to getting your first email address (@aol.com, obviously) and encountering the 24-hour reachability expedited