Make your own chocolate coins at home
*This post contains affiliate links that earn us some revenue if you click and make a purchase and are marked with AF* My children love crafting and making things, especially things they can eat afterward, and chocolate coins are a firm favorite in this house. I use chocolate coins in our special advent calendar that […]
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Keeping life organised. What works for me.
*This is a review post and also contains affiliate links* As a working mum, who runs two businesses, and has to manage home life, with busy children, keeping life organised is my number one priority. Between work, social and personal life there is a lot to manage. I have a few tips and tricks as […]
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What is community to you?
This is a personal post. We have spent over a year, swimming against a tide. It’s been tough. Brutal at points. This is a very real photo. This might look like a post-lunch dining room table, but for us it symbolizes community. What is community for you? For us, it’s the people who have stuck around despite […]
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That time a cat scratch got the better of me.
Cats. I love them. They are part of my life, and partly the reason for the name of this blog. I have owned and cared for cats for all of my adult life, and had cats in my childhood, one way or another. I have learned how to give them medicine, groom them and manage […]
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Our week in photos 14/0/19 – 20/09/19 cats, vets, medicine all round.
Welcome to Our Week in Photos. Our way of sharing our week and what we get up to with our family abroad and grandparents who like to keep up with our life and antics. Our week has been, yet again, interesting. We started off with the realization that Spotty the Gecko is not a boy […]
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Fabulous subscription boxes from Gus & Bella
*This is a review post, we were kindly sent some items to review and share about* The humans in this house think they are in charge. Of course, they aren’t really, but we let them think that because it keeps them happy. We cats are clever and much more sensible than humans though. We sleep […]
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Dear swimming lesson and swimming pool parents.
I am a swim mum. My children both have swimming lessons weekly, and we visit our local leisure center, for this. We use the pool, and then we shower and go home. I loathe public swimming pools, but because I believe that swimming is an important life skill for kids to learn, we go, and […]
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Simple eco friendly changes to your beauty routine.
Going green and using greener items around your home, to be eco-friendly as part of your lifestyle, is not a sweeping process, or at least it isn’t for most of us. Whilst some changes can be simple and relatively inexpensive, like walking to work instead of driving, for example, or not buying lunch in a […]
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Phonics, clearing up some of the mystery.
I didn’t learn to read using phonics, as a child, so I had no real idea of what all the fuss was about them, and using the phonic method to help children learn to read, until my own children started school. This is a helpful guest post explaining how phonics work and why they are […]
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Why we chose to homeschool.
This time last year, we made a rather monumental, and life-changing parenting choice. We didn’t share with many people, initially, because we wanted to try and work out how our plan would look, and if it was working then we could share and if it didn’t work, we could go back to what we knew […]
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