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Storage Solutions: Giving Clutter A Home
When you have children in the home, slowly but surely their toy collections build up and up. Suddenly the home is littered with possessions, items, toys and other technology and gadgets. It’s a nightmare when you have to clear up the floor and furniture. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time and you have to just […]
Raw motherhood: the moments you can’t prepare for and those that bring you to your knees
No one may ever recognise the sacrifices you have made, the things you have put yourself through but it shouldn’t matter because your children are the daily illustration that ALL of it mattered. That ALL of it was worth it, and that you would do it ALL again.
Battle Play with Little Green and Blue Men and Women
When it comes to battle play, the little boys don’t need any encouragement. Whether they are playing Power Rangers with their big brother or having a dinosaur battle, they are very imaginative in their play and it’s very entertaining to watch them – when I’m not breaking up a fight over who has what colour […]
Get giggling with the Tiddlytubbies
Are your little ones fans of the Tellytubbies? If so they will love the Tiddlytubbies no doubt, basically tiny cute versions of the Tellytubbies. I don’t remember my eldest two children really being bothered by Teletubbies when they were little, but the two little boys are quite mesmerised by them. 2017 is the 20th anniversary […]
Developing water confidence
I’ve written many times on the blog about the importance of children learning to swim and how I believe it’s a vital life skill. A big part of learning to swim involves developing water confidence. We know how important it is for our children to be water confident. It’s a life skill ultimately, and I feel […]
Creating a stylish bathroom: easier than you think?
In an ideal world, it would be lovely to have one bathroom for you and one bathroom for the children, right? Sadly, not all of us have the space for both. So it means all sharing one family bathroom. That can be all very well, but as a mum, it can be a bit disappointing […]
Top 5 funny gifts for children
Gift shopping for children can be such a mixed bag over the years. Sometimes there are almost too many possibilities of things to get and you have to try and balance what to give them between birthdays and Christmases. Perhaps there are some specific things children have asked for, perhaps there are things they really […]
My last baby
A few weeks ago I took this photo of my youngest looking out of the window of a canal boat. The more I look at it, the more grown up I think he looks, and the more I realise that he’s really not a baby anymore. As the youngest of four he has a massive advantage […]