Some people love to keep pets in the house, but in the case where you buy a pet that is not trained to poop outside, you may have a hard time due to the spread feces and urine all over the house. Some pets may not be able to go out for potty if they […]
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID – THE LONG HAUL – Q & A with Jeff Kinney…
We are delighted to have a little Q&A with Jeff Kinney, creator of Diary of A Wimpy Kid. My tween loves the series and we will be sharing more about the movie this week too… As a kid growing up in Washington DC, Jeff Kinney loved to draw. That passion for a pencil followed him […]
READ MORE5 Money-Saving Strategies for Raising Your Family Pet
As a parent, you face many financial challenges while raising a family, from buying food on a budget to ensuring every member of the family has medical coverage. However, some challenges may be complicated, such fitting a four-legged friend into your household finances. Whether you choose to bring an animal into your home or […]
READ MOREIt’s a lonely business, sometimes, this parenting thing…
Don’t get me wrong. Parenting and being a mother, has and is an awesome thing, and seeing these two human beings that I helped to make and am bringing into the world, is mostly amazing, and I have many fellow parents around me in our little community both in real life and online, as we […]
READ MOREPerfect family holiday time in Thailand.
*this is a collaborative post. All images are owned or used with permission* Planning a family holiday, a proper, get on a plane and go somewhere different and amazing, can be fun and challenging. Our first adventure as a family was to Thailand and we spent a glorious two weeks there, over Christmas. Christmas in […]
READ MORECold be gone with Coldzyme
It’s the season for colds and coughs. The weather has changed and germs abound. Winter is coming and so are those nasty lurgies that send us rushing to get tissues and throat sweets. I hate getting colds. You aren’t quite sick enough to take time off work, but you feel pretty much like death warmed […]
READ MORECreating animations with Zu3D
It’s not often that something makes me feel REALLY old, but we recently tried out the fabulous animation kit and software from Zu3D and when I see what we can now create with technology, and remember back to my own days at school with a very old computer and a Daisy Wheel printer (who remembers […]
READ MOREMeet Batman & Robin…
You may have read our sad news about the death of our beloved hamster Scruffy, over the summer. We were gutted to loose him and we missed him a lot. The children kept nagging me to get another hamster, but I wasn’t ready. He was mine, and I was very fond of him, and wasn’t […]
READ MOREA little sunshine in lunchboxes with Chilean Easy Peelers
Ah, school lunchboxes, and what to put in them? Anyone else struggle sometimes to fill them with food you know your kids will eat but that is also good for them, and that they will enjoy? My children both like fruit, I jokingly call my small boy a fruit bat, for his well known ability […]
READ MORES is for sleep, T is for tonsils…
I have always said that Mum instinct is very rarely wrong and that if you feel that something is amiss with your kid(s) you should act on it. I have been proven right before, twice, with health issues with my children, once when I put my foot down and pushed past a whole host of […]
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