• Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 466}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 466} Both my kids had a full week of school and got on really well. My daughter tried Netball Club too which she enjoyed. Over the weekend we picked up a Pooch Passport at Hughenden Manor, our local National Trust property. From 1st September…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 465}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 465} Last week I shared some of our fun days out over the summer holidays. We had a great week in Dorset, looking for jurassic fossils and using our Lifetime National Trust card to visit some beautiful historic buildings. I shared our trip to…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 464}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 464} Last week was the final week of the school holidays. We made sure to keep the kids busy with finishing homework, bike rides, go karting and a trip to the local climbing centre. I also stitched name labels on every new item of…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 463}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 463} Last week was the fifth week of the school summer holidays – just one more week to go! We returned from a weekend away where we rented a campervan for the weekend. It was definitely an experience, and not sure it’s one I…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 462}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 462} It’s been a bit of a juggle trying to ensure the kids have a good summer holiday whilst we’ve both been working. My daughter spent the week at our local young people’s centre whilst my son stayed at home, working through some of…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 461}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 461} We spent the last week glamping at Jurassic Glamping at The Red House Farm in East Devon. The site was perfect and we were only 15 minutes away from the Jurassic coast and visited every day. The weather was all over the place…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 460}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 460} The weather has felt autumnal all week even though we are in the beginning of August. We have been blackberry picking so many times that we have frozen bags full of them for later in the year. We did bake one blackberry and…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 459}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 459} Last week the kids were away at Scout camp on the Isle of Wight all week. They went hiking, crabbing, cycling, go karting and kayaking and had an amazing adventure. The weather was not kind to them but it sounds like they enjoyed…

  • Monday Happy List

    Five Happy Things {Week 458}

    Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. This is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I always love to write. Five Happy Things {Week 458} Last week felt like a big week as my daughter had her last day in Year 6, and therefore the last day at Junior school. In September she will be going to a new school in a different area. She enjoyed a BBQ…