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Category Archives: Family Life and Parenting
Surcare – Getting tough laundry done, but being kind to skin…
I do a LOT of laundry. Two kids, who wear school uniform, and a lot of extra curricular activities that mean there are lots of muddy, sweaty, sometimes paint covered clothes dumped in the wash basket every week. I also have a husband that runs and cycles for exercise and I work with small children […]
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When Mum has a meltdown. No mum is perfect.
When Mum has a meltdown, you know it’s been that kind of day. It started badly, with tears, tantrums and grumps, and I lost my cool after being shouted at by one child and stropped at by the 9.5 year old going on tweenager… (Have I mentioned she’s just like me? I’m kind of dreading […]
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Squeeze my hand…
Matthew and I have a secret code, something I taught him (and actually his sister too) for when he is really struggling. When life with SPD is getting to him, or he is somewhere he is finding hard. I tell him to squeeze my hand, as hard as he can, and then I know, that […]
READ MOREFootball fun with Lidl
My small boy is a bit football mad and loves kicking his ball round, playing with his mates in the playground and watching matches on the TV. So a visit to the Lidl football Zone at the Royal Bath & West Show, to practice and learn some new skills was a perfect for him. “The […]
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Please don’t be scared…
Please don’t be scared to tell me you are pregnant. Yes, I’m struggling a little (OK, a lot) with the idea that I might not fall pregnant again, and am facing the possibility that we are “done”. Yes, it’s a little hard for me to deal with the feeling that you have something I want, […]
READ MOREThe guilt still remains…
If you follow us on social media at all you would have seen these posts from this past weekend where I shared about how my small boy was struggling with an ear infection then a perforated ear drum. It was not a fun thing to watch him in so much pain, knowing there was very […]
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Message in a bottle, personalised books for children.
We are very excited here, to share about something we think is wonderful and that we think our readers will love. No it’s not the Sting song or the movie. This Message in a Bottle is personalised children’s book. It’s has been created by acclaimed children’s author Tom Percival and illustrator Tuire Siirainen and it really […]
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Teaching a cat to use a cat flap…
So last week, we had a cat flap installed, because certain cats (I’m looking sternly at Jasper, as I type this!) like to wake us up at horrible hours of the night to be let out of the house. I don’t want to have them outside at night, especially Layla, in the winter, when it’s […]
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Summer is on the way. Is your pet ready?
We spent so longer waiting for spring. It’s strange to think that it will soon be summer! Of course, soon enough summer will be over and, before we know it, winter will be here again. But the point of this article isn’t to complain about how fast time slips through our hands. It’s about preparing […]
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