*We hope this collaborative post sharing ways to take care of your own health and wellness as a parent is helpful* As parents, we spend most of our lives focusing on our children and generally forget to touch base with ourselves. Being a good parent is of course about being selfless and nurturing our young […]
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Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and hopefully this week after having had covid, we are back to normal ish, and although both adults are still not fully on the mend (we have been told the tiredness, cough, and loss of smell could take a few weeks to go) we are hoping that this week will […]
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After a long time managing to avoid it, both adults being fully vaccinated, the teenager with one vaccine on board, the boy not eligible yet, Covid found us and invaded. We have lived an element of normal life, having eased ourselves back in to things at a slower pace than some, for our own mental […]
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Thank you to Joy from Pink Oddy who has kindly shared this helpful guest post with us with some thoughts around if Home Education is right for you and your child. As fellow home educators it’s great for me to read how and why other people choose that option and I think it also gives […]
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There are times of the year when fireworks happen. New Year’s Eve, sometimes around Christmas, Bonfire Night and around or on the 5th November, Diwali and also Eid can be times when people enjoy either fireworks in their gardens or attend firework displays as they celebrate. I love fireworks, I will admit, and thoroughly enjoy […]
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If you have tricky to buy for kids, then Christmas and birthdays can be a bit of a minefield. Hopefully this sponsored post with Wicked Uncle is helpful and gives you some new ideas to ease the stress. Tricky to buy for kids can be challenging. It might be they are teenagers who aren’t really […]
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Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and this week we are sharing about school holiday snack boxes. I don’t know about you, but my kids seem to be permanently starving when they are home on school holidays and I think they think I run a 24/7 cafe. I am fairly sure boredom plays a part because […]
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*This is a collaborative post with Trends UK sharing about how we make science more fun at home* We love science as a family. Dad is an engineer with a love of all things maths and scientific, I am an ex nurse who finds anything related to science fascinating and I enjoy teaching it as […]
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Last weekend I was relatively convinced that Covid, the current Delta variant, had finally found us. Or at least, found the teen. This week has been fun. She came home from school on the Friday evening of last weekend with a slightly bunged up nose. She felt fine. I thought nothing much of it, she’s been […]
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Functional medicine at its core is when health conditions are treated by finding the root cause, rather than diagnosing and treating symptoms. Functional medicine still incorporates conventional medicine when it’s needed, but the idea is to treat the underlying cause of health problems. Often functional medicine is mistaken for natural or homeopathic treatment, but it’s […]
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