Sometimes it’s just impossible for me to write about anything else until I get something off my chest and this is definitely one of those times. I took my 3 year old daughter for a children’s hearing test the other day and it confirmed that she does have some low level deafness caused by a…
Yesterday I felt broken by my children, and I feel terrible for it. As a parent there is nothing worse than the feeling that you are letting them down and that there is more you could do to make the day run smoothly. I am finding this year really difficult and it breaks my heart…
Toys are a really big deal in this house. We sacrifice a minimal looking living space in favour of stepping on bricks and drowning in mountains of toys that the kids love. If you follow my blog you’ll know a fair amount of toys get featured on Zena’s Suitcase, and that’s because they make the…
Balabalboomboom! This week it has all been about Messy Monster, Zoe and Felix. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, then you haven’t been to Okido yet! Messy Goes To Okido joined the CBeebies line up this week, and we are completely hooked. My daughter has watched it over, and over and over again….
We have all wanted to see In The Night Garden Live for a long time now. The girls both adore the TV show and secretly Daddy does too. Going to see it live at some point was a given I guess, as we’ve talked a lot about In The Night Garden here. When we were…
This week two very excited little girls made their way to the Theatre Royal Nottingham, escorted by their Mummy’s of course, to see the all new Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom Live Tour. Leading up to the show had been a little like the long journey to that long awaited holiday, but in stead of…
I really feel it’s important for my children to be able to swim. My teen can swim, and I took him to the pool regularly when he was a baby, even though I couldn’t swim. I didn’t want him to be like me. I haven’t been nearly so on the ball with Princess or Little…
Well something really quite unexpected has taken place this evening, and it has made me come down stairs and take straight to my blog to share it with you straight away. You may already know that we are a co-sleeping family if you have been following my blog for a while, but just maybe that…
Princess has been affectionately known as a flight risk for quite sometime now. She can be a lot a bit of a liability when we go out to say the least. Sometimes she is really good and knows that cars and roads are dangerous and will stay firmly by your side. Other times, when concentration…
This week Princess graduated from being a toddler to a preschooler, so you know that stinky wet fish I was talking about in this post, it’s only gone and slapped me round the other side of the face. I know us bloggers talk a lot about our kids growing up fast, but they really do,…
When little Pudding was first born, and I started being able to get out and meet other Mums again, there was a lot of chat about how to entertain your toddler after a newborn had arrived. As us mothers do, we swapped activities we liked, parks that worked and cafes that could accommodate. One of…
The clan here at Zena’s Suitcase were lucky enough to be invited to the première of the latest Thomas & Friends movie, Tale of the Brave, at Drayton Manor Adventure Park recently. This was so exciting for us as Princess is a self declared Thomas addict. Tale of the Brave was released in the UK on…