We love this time of the year. We have family birthdays and of course the festive season to look forward to. Our diary is filling up fast and we are all excited to catch up with family and friends over the next few months. We are already beginning to stock up on festive food but…
Starting the week by writing the Monday Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. It’s a chance for me 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. Monday…
With the clocks going back this weekend it feels like the start of lovely long evenings in with the family. We love to spend time at home, my perfect Sunday would involve slow cooking a delicious roast and working our way through the games cupboard. Whilst our roast was in the oven this afternoon we…
I know we haven’t enjoyed Halloween but Christmas is already creeping in. I find this time of year goes really quickly so I was delighted to get an early start on my seasonal reading. Thanks to NetGalley I received a copy of From Shetland, With Love at Christmas by Erin Green which is published next month….
October is passing by very quickly and we are enjoying half term and having time to relax. Our house is already filled with pumpkins thanks to our visit to the pumpkin patch near London a few weeks ago. The children have been planning their designs and I am looking forward to trying out some pumpkin…
We’ve owned our adorable Bichon Frise Chewie for 21 months now. We couldn’t imagine our lives without him and he really is the fifth member of our family. Our days our punctuated by training, treats and walks but we wouldn’t have it any other way. The kids love showing Chewie off and make sure he…
Starting the week by writing the Monday Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while. It’s a chance for me 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. Monday…
It seems a while ago since we had fun with the Skittles experiment, creating a colourful rainbow by adding water to a plate of Skittles. It’s so easy to do science experiments at home and that was one of my daughters’ favourites. It’s so simple to set up that it makes a quick and easy…
We have crafted a lot this October. Halloween is so much fun and there is something lovely about sitting around the table after school to craft together. Our most recent craft was decorating a papier mache pumpkin. As much as we love to carve a real pumpkin, our fingerprint painted pumpkin for kids is a…