It gets worse before it gets better… Right?!
Last week was our first week at nursery school for big brother and it has been hard on us all. For the year that I was back at work, between […]
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Review: Legoland, Windsor
Friday 2nd September, the last day of the school summer holidays and everyone else had the same idea as us, to go to Legoland, Windsor. The queues were epic (averaging […]
An Unseasonal Egg Hunt
It’s been three days since we last saw the eggshells. Three days since I made a large pan of scrambled egg for tea and discarded the shells on the kitchen […]
Autumn: season of misty eyes & mellow fruitfulness
I love Autumn: that crisp feeling in the air, the crunch of brightly coloured leaves underfoot, puddles made for jumping in, conkers, pumpkin carving, frosty mornings, getting wrapped up in […]
Review: Ollie Polly Parties
When you’re a mummy of young children, you go to a lot of birthday parties: soft play parties, craft parties, dressing up parties; themed parties, garden parties… the list goes […]
Wine: A Lesson Learnt
The bottle of wine seemed like a good idea at the time. It was medicinal really. To dull the memory of the poo I found on the lounge […]
Brotherly Love: Following in his Brother’s Footsteps…
I’m an eldest child, my husband is an eldest child. We like to think that we understand the “lot” of the eldest child: destined always to get the blame because […]
One, Two, Three… I See The Sea! A Day of Two Halves.
This morning we were the worst parents in the world. Put simply: everything was wrong… The wrong amount of milk had been put on his bowl of shreddies, the wrong […]
Review: Mini Monet makes a big Impressionism
We’re big fans of Mister Maker here and love any activity that involves making a mess. It’s the cleaning up afterwards that we’re not so fond of… I love getting […]
Holiday Over: Back with a Bump
We’ve just returned from a week in France. A week of macarons, pain au chocolat, vin rouge, fromages galore and the blissful ignorance that comes from wearing cool, loose holiday […]
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