How to have a fun birthday at home
You may not have originally intended to do a birthday at home. However, we are often more creative when we have constraints, so this could be the start of new family traditions.
You may not have originally intended to do a birthday at home. However, we are often more creative when we have constraints, so this could be the start of new family traditions.
As my birthday is between both my children’s birthdays and Christmas it is often a low key event. I wanted to make sure this wasn’t the case for my 40th birthday. I wanted to do something …
How do you celebrate a big birthday? How do you make your 40th birthday memorable? If you're looking for inspiration here's a list of ideas that may help you find the perfect plan for y
Today has been our first day at home after almost a week away for Christmass and sorting through photographs has given me the opportunity to think about the fun we had. The first thing I think is how …
I think I can say that making our own wrapping paper for Christmas has now become a family tradition as we’ve now done it for three years. The first year the children were five and two, and we …
Now we’re in November, it is time to start thinking about Christmas films. In the past we’ve struggled to get in to the Christmas feel until a few days before the big day, so we now start …
I enjoy sharing posts I’ve enjoyed reading, so here are some recent favourites on the theme of parenting. I hope you find something to enjoy: What makes a great packed lunch? No Excuses: …
From children’s parties to sexist jobs here are some posts on different aspects of parenting I’ve enjoyed reading recently. The Snow Day. A Mothers Failings. Party invoice: Boy sent bill …
From packed lunches to discipline and swimming to school admissions; here are my parenting goodreads. What’s on a Six Year Old’s Wish List? The dreaded nursery phone call What’s Wrong With …
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m interested in reading parenting posts, so here is a list of posts I’ve enjoyed reading recently all connected to parenting. The One Where The …
With school starting this week there are going to be a lot of milestones and memories to capture. As this is our first time at school I don’t know what to expect, but don’t want to miss …
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to capture memories of my children. B is starting school soon, a real milestone, and I’m concerned I’m not capturing as many of M; second child …
September is fast approaching and I’m getting the impression many parents are looking forward to their children starting school. But I’m not. I know some of my issue is the unknown, but …
Within an hour of meeting Millie I knew she liked singing and gymnastics; see the video below. By bedtime I’d been told she liked horse riding and ice skating, and most strangely that most of …
We’ve only been in our new house for just over two months, but we are already settling into a routine for Saturday mornings, and it is has something for the whole family to enjoy. We start by …
I assumed in our own house we would have the power to decide what we did to it and to choose our own service providers. However this appears not to be the case with telecommunications. Someone has a …
My mum recently died after fighting cancer for 10 months. It came as a shock to everyone in the family because the original diagnosis was very positive. I spoke at her funeral and evening prayers and …
Two weeks ago I gave birth to my son, almost exactly three years after my daughter; arriving the day before her birthday. It was a very different experience as he arrived within 3.5 hours of the first …
Every project needs to come to an end, but what do you do if not all the parties agree on the completion? My biggest project this year has been my pregnancy and unfortunately my baby and my body …
So in 3 months I should be a mother, and to date we have not done any preparation. It is starting to dawn on me that we need to do something soon, but I’m not sure what. This will be our first …
You may have noticed my posting has been somewhat erratic over the last few months and its not because I’ve lost interest in writing on my blog, in fact its quite the opposite I’ve got a …
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