Has your child ever told you that learning is boring? I know mine have, every single day to some degree. With Eva in Year 1 and Lewis in Year 8, although their educational needs are very different, their attitudes towards learning are very similar – unless it’s fun, they simply aren’t interested. When I was asked…
If there’s one thing we love in this house, it’s pyjamas! And I’m not ashamed to admit that we have days, far too many of late, when we like to stay in them all day! Although the girls have had some lovely fleece pyjamas over the Winter months, the last few weeks they have been…
If you’re anything like me, you’ll leave everything until the last minute, and if your husband is anything like mine, so will he! I have put together a last minute Mothers Day gift guide to suit all budgets, and I shall be sending the link over to my husband in a not so subtle hint!! With…
If you ask me what I am most proud of in life, I will always tell you – my children. I make no apologies for the countless ways in which I celebrate all five of my children, through my blog, in the posts that I write, the photographs I share and the stories I tell. I…
I have made no secret of the fact that at the grand old age of two years and nine months, Harry was still sleeping in our bedroom. This was due to a combination of reasons, the first being that as the baby of the family, I just haven’t been ready to let him go and…
There is nothing I love more than spending time with the children, even more so when we can get outside. Throughout the warmer months we live at the beach, the park, or in the garden, just enjoying the outdoors, playing game’s and using our imaginations. It never ceases to amaze me just how creative the…