You know when you are a fully fledged grown up when you become a member of the National Trust. My friends and family all think it is hilarious that I always become a member to places. Ness Gardens, Bodelwyddan Castle, Chester Zoo and now the National Trust to add to the list. In all fairness, they are definitely…
After a lovely half term it was back to business this week. I always feel a bit nervous when she has to return to school after the holidays. I have written many a time on this blog that Meme doesn’t love school and returning after the Christmas holidays was tough – she was grumpy, tired…
I am writing this sitting in a jam packed car on the M6 – I look behind me and the girls are watching a film on their tablets, Frozen I think, with their princess earphones on happy as can be – honestly how did our parents cope without tablets? My husband is driving, he is…
Growing up I always dreamt that I would have a big family. I always imagined having 4 Children. I then met the man of my dreams, got married and had my first child Meme and it was like whoa this is tough – having 4 Children quickly became a distant memory. A couple of years…
Making plans with young children can be tough, I think we will go to a cafe and have tea and cake, the girls will play nicely colouring in,we can maybe do a little puzzle together – it will be a nice relaxing afternoon or maybe we could go the park, we can get some fresh…
The last few days of school for 2015 and I figured this is a good point to reflect on Meme’s first full term in school. I wont lie, we got off to a slow start, I wrote this post about how we were looking forward to seeing the back of September, it was a hard month. I…
We had a lovely festive Sunday, in fact we pretty much had a festive weekend, but Sunday was quite special. We visited a place not far from us called Ness Gardens, it is so pretty and perfect for kids to run around and explore. Our Girls love it and call it the ‘big gardens’. Ness…
It has been a long week for my little family, we are all feeling tired and run down. Meme finishes school on the 18th December which is good as they will have a full week to chill out before the madness of Christmas. Here are my #little loves this week Read I don’t think I…
I think my picture sums up November, it has been a muddy puddles and wellies month. It has been so wet and miserable. However, I do quite like the month of November starting with Bonfire night and ending with the lead up to Christmas. Here are some of the things that I have been loving…
It has been so cold this week, I think we can all agree winter has arrived. The last Friday of the month – I am just so excited for everything that December brings. Read All I have read this week is a whole lot of school letters asking for money and my faithful Grazia magazine.…