Gift wrapping season will soon be upon us won’t it – how do you wrap yours? Perhaps you set yourself up with a Christmas movie and a mulled wine and do it all in one go? Perhaps you are a little and often person and wrap as you buy? Perhaps you are all wrapped and […]
To buy or not to buy? The end of term is fast approaching, you’ve hit July and the countdown has begun to the long summer holidays. Sports days are done and dusted, end of year parties and proms are under way, school trips are in full flow and everyone is starting to wind down. Now […]
The ‘rules’ of gift-giving Each of us carries within ourselves a set of rules about gift-giving. Like most things, these rules are often formed from our own experiences as children and perhaps even following the approach our parents take. There is also the possibility that in later life we are influenced by the actions of […]
Why is May 4th Star Wars Day? A whole day dedicated to Star Wars? That can’t be right? Actually it is really the whole month of May, with a special focus on the 4th May, as designated Star Wars Day! So how did this come about? Star Wars Day was ultimately created by the fans […]
In the UK, Mother’s Day is coming up soon – mark March 26th in your calendars, and if you have children yourself, then make sure you start hinting soon as to what you want for your special day, but even if you are a mother yourself, let’s step away from that for a moment, and […]
Christmas Eve is a great time to kick off a new puzzle with the family. You can all get together and try to work as a team – I say ‘try’ because puzzles can get a bit competitive sometimes and little fingers can also take a bit of persuading to ‘give up’ the pieces on […]
These days we take so many photos of our children and have them all digitally, it is so easy to share them on social media, but there isn’t the printing off of actual photos or physical albums as I remember as a child. In terms of preserving the memories I do think that we are […]
Like it or not Christmas is coming. We’ve had a few Christmassy things on the blog already and last week I saw the dreaded Christmas takeover in the supermarket when I dived in with the little ones to grab two things I’d missed off my online shopping order. Once the children spotted all the Christmas […]