No phones in the bedroom for adults or kids…
No phones in the bedroom. A rule we have, that we try (and we don’t always get it right, or stick to it) to adhere to. Both of our children have access to devices now they are older although we have been very strict about introducing those and how much access they have. We are […]
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Saving Money On Your Baby Shopping While You’re Pregnant
Today, in this collaborative post we are talking about saving money when shopping for you and your baby when you are pregnant. It’s an exciting time but also a time when you may want to be aware of your financial options and what is out there to help you save money. The average pregnant woman […]
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5 Struggles of People Who Raise Their Child Alone
Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs that you can ever take on. Being a single parent is an even harder job. When a parent is raising their children in a home with another parent present, they are a team. Sometimes it takes teamwork to raise a child. If you don’t have your […]
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Going Green – January: ditching plastic bags?
So, I haven’t set myself any New Year’s Resolutions, as such, but I have got some thoughts in my head, for how this year, we as a family can be a bit kinder to the environment and look after our world a bit better. One of the things on my hit list that we […]
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Goodbye 2016
I haven’t made any resolutions for 2017. I don’t keep them. I am not planning any glorious blog triumphs or personal life goals (ok, we are on the very last ditch attmepts to get me pregnant, but that’s not really a goal any more, more of a last attempt to persuade this body of mine […]
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More than just a freebie site – Gratisfaction…
I love a good bargain, and this is the time of the year when most people are out looking in the sales, hunting down what they want or need, and taking advantage of price cuts and winter sales in the shops and online and I am out there with them. I also love getting things […]
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Happy Christmas
Wishing you a peaceful and happy few days! We will be back on the 30th December…
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Christmas fun tag…
So the lovely Emma over at EmmaandFamily tagged me in a post asking me some questions about Christmas to share. I thought it might be fun. What’s your favorite Christmas movie? – Home Alone 1 & 2. I don’t know why, maybe because it’s so silly and funny. My kids love them too, so we pull […]
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Christmas is bittersweet, allow me my grief…
For me, Christmas is bittersweet. On one hand, there is the joy and magic of Christmas, and the fun and delight of family time but I balance that out with the lingering sense of loss and grief that tinges it with sadness for me, and probably always will. We have all the fun of planning […]
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Family Made Simple
The definition of the word “family” is different for everyone. What used to be described as “the nuclear family”, where you had two parents and one or two children, really doesn’t exist any more. As my Nana would have said “things are not what they used to be”. She often used to say that in […]
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