Take Care Of Your Own Health And Wellness As A Parent
*We hope this collaborative post sharing ways to take care of your own health and wellness as a parent is helpful* As parents, we spend most of our lives focusing on our children and generally forget to touch base with ourselves. Being a good parent is of course about being selfless and nurturing our young […]
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Meal Plan Monday – back to normal ish.
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and hopefully this week after having had covid, we are back to normal ish, and although both adults are still not fully on the mend (we have been told the tiredness, cough, and loss of smell could take a few weeks to go) we are hoping that this week will […]
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Having Covid. The good, the bad and the ugly.
After a long time managing to avoid it, both adults being fully vaccinated, the teenager with one vaccine on board, the boy not eligible yet, Covid found us and invaded. We have lived an element of normal life, having eased ourselves back in to things at a slower pace than some, for our own mental […]
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Is Home Education Right for You and Your Child?
Thank you to Joy from Pink Oddy who has kindly shared this helpful guest post with us with some thoughts around if Home Education is right for you and your child. As fellow home educators it’s great for me to read how and why other people choose that option and I think it also gives […]
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Meal Plan Monday – Winter comfort food favourites
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and this week as we hit November, it’s time for some winter comfort food favourites this week. I love making food that fills us up after a long day of work or school and I also love pulling my slow cooker out and making it work hard at this time […]
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Ideas for super green gifts to give at Christmas
Sharing a guest post By Liesbeth Deddens, Climeworks with some ideas for green gifts to give at Christmas. We think it’s a great idea to think different and go greener with your gifts. Given that our environment is in serious trouble many people will appreciate being given gifts that are super-green. So, where can you […]
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Drink More water. Up your water bottle game.
I do not drink enough water. When I returned to work post Covid lockdown I realised that when I was at home, I usually made the effort to drink enough water or fluids during the day when I am at home but when I am out and about for the day or at work, I […]
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Meal Plan Monday – meals for when we are unwell
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday again. I swear the weeks are flying past fast and Christmas will be here before we know it. Unfortunately we are all under the weather here so this week and meal planning has been a bit hit and miss and more about eating what makes us feel better and what […]
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Gift ideas for tricky to buy for kids
If you have tricky to buy for kids, then Christmas and birthdays can be a bit of a minefield. Hopefully this sponsored post with Wicked Uncle is helpful and gives you some new ideas to ease the stress. Tricky to buy for kids can be challenging. It might be they are teenagers who aren’t really […]
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“wellness practitioners” are the scourge of social media
This is a proper rant and I stand firmly by this statement that “wellness practitioners” are the scourge of social media and cause more harm than good. We all know them. The self styled “health practioners” of social media. They fall into two catagories on my feed. Either a mum blogger who’s signed up to […]
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