Selsdon Park Hotel – Spa & Golf

When my brother agreed to have all 4 our of children so that we could have a night away we had to then decide on the location. I originally looked at Italy but tbh it was a bit much price wise for just a night. So then I started looking at Groupon (which has nothing … Read more

What we did for the Jubilee and Fathers’ Day idea

We went to our local Rugby club on the Monday to watch our friend’s 4 year old daughter dancing (she was really good). They also had some stalls there. The Abbey stall had free craft and face paints. This could easily be replicated for a Fathers’ Day gift – maybe with Best dad written on … Read more

The softly softly approach to fussy eating

If you don’t know me by now let me tell you that I can’t stand to have children crying. I hate the whole opinion that children are trying to manipulate and need to learn lessons or you’re making more work for yourself later on. If you think children should sit at the dinner table and … Read more

What was the Year? Tuesday Time Tunnel Tuesday (with Linky)

News It was Twitter’s Year It was the loss of the King of Pop – Michael Jackson Rihanna was beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celebrity Weddings Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham Bruce Willis and Emma Heming David Letterman and Regina Lasko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music Shontelle Layne – T-Shirt Alesha Dixon – Breathe Slow Dizee Rascal … Read more

Wheels

Each one of my boys are born in a different season. Here I’m going to tell you a bit more about my youngest baby who was born in the Spring and is now 3. He really does get into everything and needs watching loads! He is very inquisitive, free-spirited, adventurous and a born climber. He’s … Read more

Poor LadyBird

My teenage son helped strim some of the garden this evening and the battery died – and then I discovered this poor ladybird. The rest of my week in pictures (click here) ; Macro Monday

Simple Patriotic ideas for the Jubilee

Personalised T-shirt I simply bought some bunting from the £1 shop And cut out the picture of the Queen and my son’s name from the surrounding flag I purchased a white t-shirt from the charity shop and we just sewed them on. England Cakes My 3 year old always wants to make cakes. These have … Read more

Jolly J

This week when I told my son we were on the letter J he told me that it was for Joe his best friend. First I started with my youngest child and we did jumping then we played with the Jungle animals and we had jelly and played with the jewellery We made a Union … Read more

Lego Union Jack

LEGO union jack

I have been teaching my son about the alphabet (that post is still to come this week) and this week is the turn of J so as part of that we made a Union Jack for the Jubilee out of Lego. First we sorted out the red, white and blue Lego. Unfortunately my son found … Read more