Pawsome care for pets with Be Loved
*Be:Loved kindly asked us to review their products and share them with our readers* Our pets are amazing, and we love them, and they love us back (mostly, sometimes Layla makes it clear she really doesn’t approve of our life choices and hasn’t really ever forgiven me for having children) and it’s our job to […]
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Foul Play – The Murder Mystery Card Game
*We love games in our house and are delighted to share about Foul Play, a murder mystery card game. We were kindly sent a game to review at home* Foul Play is an easy to play game that you can enjoy with friends and family and perfect if you love murder, mystery, “who dunnit” and […]
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Helping Teenagers Embrace Sleep Hygiene
*This is a collaborative post sharing some ideas on helping teenagers embrace sleep hygiene* Getting teenagers to go to sleep is often difficult and they may need help to manage their sleep hygiene. Not only do they start having different sleeping patterns, but they start becoming more rebellious and independent-minded, so getting them to do […]
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Meal Plan Monday – school holiday meal planning
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and after a bit of a break from sharing our weekly meals, we are back with some school holiday meal planning. I find my kids tend to ask for food out of boredom in the holidays, particulalry as we faced lockdown and being stuck at home and not able to […]
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Our week in photos and stories – Coming out of lockdown
I have decided to restart our weekly photo updates and as we are coming out of lockdown I thought I would share how life is going and what we have been up to or not this week. As we ease back into to normal, we are finding it a little harder than we thought. Having […]
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Camp Beaumont Camps – happy kids & happy parents
We were kindly asked by Camp Beaumont to share about them and why we love their daycare camps for our kids. All opinions are our own. Camp Beaumont Day Camps have been caring for children for 40 years and part and parcel of the school holiday calendar. Much-loved by parents, guardians and grandparents, we provide […]
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Did you know cats can have allergies too?
Do you know that cats can have allergies too? I didn’t until recently. I knew cats could get asthma but it never crossed my mind that they could struggle with similar issues that humans face, and be allergic to things. Until our cat came home with an inexplicably swollen face one day and started sneezing, […]
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Keeping sane when supermarket shopping with kids
Here’s the thing, supermarket shopping with kids is a form of torture for me. I love my children, but loathe shopping with them. Always have, and still do. When they were tiny and could be take in a pushchair or plopped into the trolley seat and couldn’t talk to ask for things, it was a […]
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FluffyButt Love – for the love of Chickens
*I was very kindly sent a copy of FluffyButt Love to read, but all opinions are my own* I happen to be rather fond of chickens. Sadly, right now, we can’t keep chickens, life just doesn’t allow for that, although it is a long term goal of mine, for one day. I do grab the […]
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Twenty Years – Looks like we made it?
They say that marriage is hard work. Before I got married I didn’t believe that. Twenty years in, I now know it’s true. Today, twenty years ago. We got married. We agreed to do life together. We actually did it twice… I guess I would say that we have grown up. Twenty years. Two qualifications, […]
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