When 2017 ended, it had been another tough year. Job stress (which has eased) health stress (miscarriages, knee surgery, small boy’s surgery) and other things, the husband and I looked at each other and said “2018 HAS to be better, we need better, we need to do better”. We were hopeful. He’s an eternal optimist, […]
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The summer is coming, and the weather has finally started to show us the promise of sunshine. This means we can get outside in the garden and play. Good news for us, we love being outside, as I think most families with kids do and it’s so nice to be able to get out and […]
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Not everyone realises it, but sleeping well keeps you healthier for longer. It also improves your mental health and makes you feel generally more alive during the day, even when you have a lot on your plate. That’s why you should look for ways to improve the quality of sleep everyone in your family is […]
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Spending time in the sun makes most of us feel better within ourselves. Although we are cautioned about protecting our skin, the vitamin D sunshine creates in our skin is vital for our wellbeing. But it isn’t just the sunshine that helps us, being outdoors in the fresh air, surrounded by nature are perfect antidotes […]
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This last weekend, we had a fun Sunday afternoon. My small son tripped and fell and managed to gash his head. When he came running towards me and I saw blood pouring from under his hand, covering the gash, I knew we probably needed to seek medical help. When I examined the cut, that was […]
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Admittedly, parenting can be an arduous task for anyone to undertake. There’s just too much happening all the time, thus, it can be hard to keep track of everything all at once. With each passing day, children seem to grow by a couple of inches, with that, comes the added responsibility of ensuring that the […]
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*I was kindly sent a piece of allergy alert jewellery to review. Images are my own, and I was not paid to write this post* I have an allergy and I wear allergy alert jewellery so people around me are aware. It’s a relatively common allergy, but it can be potentially fatal if it’s not […]
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My kid doesn’t sleep. There, I said it. Ok, he does, but he doesn’t sleep well sometimes and we still have nights where he wakes once, if not more than once, sometimes up to three times. He needs help to go back to sleep and he often wakes early (and I mean early, before 6am) […]
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As a family that loves cycling, with three of us regularly out and about on bikes (I am currently, sadly not allowed to cycle due to recovering from major knee surgery) and a husband that is a semi professional cyclist, with 30 years of being on a bike in one way or another, we are, […]
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This is my face. Ok, it’s not my face, but it’s the look that was on my face this morning, when my children informed me of YET ANOTHER dressing up day at school. I am an ogre (except I hate dressing up, so I stomp about angrily like an ogre, I just don’t dress like […]
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