I’ve stumbled across many parenting quotes over the years about having children, some I’ve completed disregarded, some have resonated with me, and some just make me smile. As parents we all need a a few kind words, or snippets of inspiration to give us some kind of clue that we might be on the right parenting…
Lands’ End UK are very much a new brand to me, but they have made a very big impression. I recently attended their headquarters in Oakham with a group of bloggers to find out more about them, and I really liked what I learned. Lands’ End UK are certainly going to be featuring in my…
A date night in our house was long over due. Daddy and I spend a lot of time at our computers which is sadly the downside of being me being a blogger and my husband being a software engineer. It felt like we were due to spend sometime nurturing our relationship. Now that autumn is here,…
I took my 3 year old to see Grass at Lakeside Theatre this weekend. She was very excited as she enjoy’s the theatre a lot and Nottingham Lakeside is one of our very favourite places. We left Daddy and Little Pudding at home as I don’t think the 1 year old would have sat still like she used…
December is a big month for us. Not only do we have Christmas, but it’s also teens birthday. This year it’s a pretty big deal too. It’s his 18th birthday celebration, and I’m racking my brains as to how we can mark the ocassion in style. When someone turns 18 they are technically classed as…
Recently I’ve been thinking about how to keep the girls busy through the autumn. There is a little part of me that is sad about the wet and cold weather coming, and getting them out to the park becomes not being quite so easy. One thing I haven’t been doing with the both of them…
I don’t feel I’ve been as on track with my weight loss journey this week folks as I have been before. This wasn’t the plan with my holiday to Costa Brava only 3 weeks away now. I was meant to be bursting with motivation and nailing another dress size before our trip for some winter…
We were recently invited to a very special party to launch the latest Happy Readers Roald Dahl books now available from McDonalds. This was a very exciting event, as the books for this year’s Happy Readers campaign are from a very exciting children’s author indeed. When we found out that Roald Dahl’s exciting characters were…
I am totally in love with my new shoulder bag from House Of Fraser. The Brakeburn Vintage Bicycles Saddle Bag is the perfect size to store all my essential items, whilst not being to big to get in the way of getting in the way of daily life or the kids.
Summer has come and gone and now it is time to decorate your home for the autumn/fall season! Filling it with appropriate decorations is a fun process, but it can be quite costly. However, you can save on your home decor by using coupons for this and other special occasions. There are also a number of…
My son’s girlfriend likes to bake cakes. It seems her whole family likes to bake cakes. Whenever there is an occasion, someone bakes a cake. She popped round this week and we got chatting about her cake making. I demanded to know what her ‘go to’ cake recipe was and she told me all about…
Having children can really change things in a relationship. You can both find yourself asking how do we get that spark back into our marriage, how do we make things exciting again? You can think that things aren’t going to change once you have kids, but for a lot of people they do and it…
Thanks for joining me for another week of Thinking Thin. If you missed last week’s post, you can catch up with my thoughts on thinking about food here. I’m still feeling in tune with what my body needs, and generally speaking it has been a good week. There has been the odd slip up due to being…
We are well and truly on countdown to our holiday in Costa Brava and it really can’t come quick enough. It feels like the right time for us to be taking a break as a family. We haven’t been abroad since our trip to Ibiza, which was exactly 2 years ago. I wasn’t feeling my best for…
This weekend my 3 year old has been putting the Decathlon Oxelo B1 Scooter through it’s paces. She has been very excited about the scooter review since Mummy built it for her in the week. It’s been having plenty of test drives around the living room, to get ready for hitting the outdoor course. Kids just…
My Friend Freddy Bear has recently joined my 3 year old’s toy collection, and she has spent the last couple of weeks getting to know him. Freddy Bear already knew her though. He knew her name, who her best friends were and lots of other things about her before he arrived. He isn’t just any old…