I pack a lot of lunches in my house. Every day, we have a lunch box for each child, one for the Husband, and I try to include myself as well, to make sure I get lunch, rather than buying. We generally use tinfoil or clingwrap, to wrap sandwiches or other items to put in […]
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So a month ago, I wrote about taking a break from supermarket shopping. It’s not exactly my favorite pastime, so when the lovely team at Supermarket Siesta said “see if you can manage without it”, I thought it might be something I would like to try. I think if you live in a city or […]
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It’s here, it’s here. The wonderful Message in A Bottle personalized children’s book we shared about earlier in the summer, has arrived! We were very excited. Me, because I have been honored to be part of the launch team helping to get the book out to the world and knew how fabulous it was going to be and […]
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If I teach my children as a parent, it will be lessons in kindness and how we treat the people in the world around us.Sometimes as a parent you need to let your kids work life out for themselves, you can’t always be there to solve all their problems for them, you teach them, you […]
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The children and I recently had a fun morning out, visiting a place where Tetra, the fish and aquatics specialists, were hosting and sharing about fish, how to keep them properly, to help us learn about different breeds of fish, types of aquariums and everything you need to keep fish happy and well looked after. […]
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I feel like I run a mini zoo, and no I am not talking about the children in our household but the pets… We currently have a hamster, two cats, and two rabbits. The snail and the rabbits are “the children’s” pets. The cats are relatively easy to look after and I don’t expect the […]
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If you have a little one that LOVES singing, dancing and making music, and wants to be a superstar, then the Kidi Superstar from Vtech is right up their street. “VTech’s new Kidi Super Star karaoke microphone and stand uses innovative technology to reduce the vocals on any song. Whether you’re plugging in a mobile […]
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Would you take a supermarket siesta? What does that involve? The supermarket. Love them or hate them? Drag your kids there to do the weekly shop? Or sit shopping online at home, smugly pretending to be organised (then, if you are like me, who is all smug when I press “pay” but then when the […]
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*We were very kindly sent the game Jumbo Bananagrams to try. All words are our own, and images are used with permission* Jumbo Bananagrams is the perfect game for playing outside in the summer, in your garden, or at a picnic, or anywhere you have a bit of space to put the tiles and play. […]
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I am an adult, a forty year old adult (I am still getting used to that last bit, kind of living in denial about it, and trying to pretend I am still twenty something, sadly my body is not going along with that game!!) I have a nursing qualification, among other things and I also […]
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