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Have you had a last minute letter from the school telling you that your child or children need costumes like yesterday? Or maybe your child just likes dressing up? I love Christmas but there’s so much expense, especially with four boys. So when it comes to Christmas dressing up ideas for children I like to keep … Read more
Goodnight Little One (by Margaret Wise Brown £5.99) is particularly good for children who do not want to go to sleep, or need some gentle help to. It is essentially saying that everyone and everything is now closing their eyes and going to sleep. Beautifully illustrated by Rebecca Elliott and the words are really poetic … Read more
There are lots of reasons people are put off getting fit, and just lack the motivation to try. I think this is especially true in these cold months. Trying to find time to regularly attend a gym, or worried about body shape, family commitments and money, I think are probably high up there in the … Read more
It is pretty hard not to notice that this week is Thanksgiving. Therefore, it seemed obvious that a Turkey Toilet Roll Holder Craft would be a good idea. Now we don’t do Thanks Giving in the UK but we do traditionally eat Turkeys on Christmas day too I thought it would be fitting to make … Read more
Time together as a family I feel is really important, by day 10 of the Christmas TRH Book Advent, by doing some of the more simple crafts should have allowed a bit more flexibility to make this possible. Don’t forget you do not have to do these in the order that I have shared them … Read more
I started this month of Good Causes by helping promote my local theatre’s Panto Jack and the Beanstalk. Well they’ve helped me out with a Guest post about the Children. The children were not present at the read through and I was interested in how they fit it around school, and how much work they … Read more
There’s no doubt about it my boys love a bit of adventure, and climbing. In fact my 10 year old even got told off at Cub Scouts for climbing a tree! And when he fell off a tree swing over the brook he just rubbed his back and got on with it too. So when … Read more
We love to include a game as at least one of the children’s Christmas presents, as with them being so into technology we aim to encourage time spent as a family. We have built up quite a collection of games over the years, so were really interested to be able to review Drumond Park’s Rapidough … Read more
As you may remember at the start of this month my good cause was to help support local The Roses Theatre with their Panto Jack and the Beanstalk. They were asking for the help of the local community to help them knit a Beanstalk to decorate as much of the theatre as possible. Being a … Read more
For me it is important that my children know about the Nativity Story, the birth of Jesus and so on, even though we are not religious. I feel that Christmas is not just about receiving presents and it is an important message that children should learn. Of course it is more about presents all together … Read more