Last month I joined in for the first time with the Me and Mine project, where you share a family portrait at the end of each month. We had some beautiful photographs taken by our friend and photographer Colin McPherson, and I felt I wanted…
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Monday morning has rolled around again and I have the sense of impending doom that comes with my regular reality check – today’s the day I have to take my husband back to the hospice. He’s been at home for 12 days now, the longest…
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Decorating the bedroom for our second child was a bit of a rush job to say the least – we had moved Sam into the spare room but hadn’t finished repainting his old one when my husband fell ill and home decor was the last…
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Trying to help children learn is always so much easier when there is an element of play involved – and when you add in drawing and a bit of competition, it’s easier still. These cards from The Appealing Rabbit were designed by a Norwegian father who wanted…
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It’s been a while I know, but I’m taking over the reins for the Sunday Stars blog linky this week along with Katie from Mami 2 Five. She and most of the Sunday Stars team spent the weekend in London at blogging conference Britmums Live, so…
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I love buying and reading new books to the kids, but I have a few tucked away in my wardrobe which I read once and couldn’t bear to open again. These look like nice little stories about woodland animals going about their day to day…
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I’ve never been the best cook in the house, and if dinner is left to me I usually go for something healthy, quick to make and crowd-pleasing. So many times I’ve tried out a new recipe hoping the kids will give it a go and…
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One of my favourite things about summer is the weather being warm enough to cast aside my socks and slip my feet into some sandals – and these Saltwater ones are my current crush. Made from leather but strong enough to be worn in water…
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For a few moments last weekend, I rode my bike down the road and both my children were riding with me. I had the little one on the back, and the elder one pedalling alongside having finally cast off his stabilisers a couple of weeks…
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I’m starting to get used to this routine, our weekends at home as a family, trying to spend as much time together as we possibly can while simultaneously trying to stay sane. As my husband is at the hospice most of the week, it is…
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When your problems seem so huge that nothing can make them go away, there’s something reassuring about finding just one little thing that you can easily fix. That thing for me, this week anyway, was the tangled mass of necklaces decorating my dressing table. As…
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I had a lovely surprise this week. I found out I had been nominated in not one but two categories for the prestigious MAD Blog Awards, and I still can’t actually believe it’s happened! I knew I’d been nominated, but to have made the shortlist…
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As most of you will know, my husband Roger is being cared for at our local hospice but is able to have regular visits home when he feels well enough. These are treasured moments where we can relax a bit more and be ourselves, just…
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If you’ve been following our butterfly journey you’ll know it was time to set our tiny pets free this week. Out of the six little caterpillars we started off with, four made it to the final stage and we had become quite attached to them.…
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A couple of months ago some of my best friends clubbed together and bought me a Nutribullet. I was tired, run down and not eating very well and they wisely thought it would be a good idea to try to get some goodness into me.…