• AD| How to Show Your Cat How Much You Care

    April 24, 2019

    Our feline friends are a constant reminder that without them, life just wouldn’t be as good. That feeling when your cat decides to come and snuggle on your lap is next to none, not to mention how exciting it is when they choose to play with you for a few minutes. Without cats, life would…

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  • Kids Craft Activity: Painted String Art

    April 24, 2019

    Last week we spent a day doing crafts and painting. One thing I remember doing when I was a child was painting with various items such as potatoes and string. Keen to introduce these activities to our children we decided to do some painted string art. I’ll save the potato printing for next time! All…

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  • Easter Holidays Week 1

    April 23, 2019

    The start of the Easter holidays last week has been full of fun! Although I worked Monday to Thursday last week (read more about this here) we still managed to do lots of fun things! On Monday after I arrived home from work we spent most of the day in the garden playing tennis, racquetball…

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  • Finding the perfect work/life balance

    April 22, 2019

    This year start of the Easter holidays has been a very different one to last year. You see last year I was self employed following redundancy the year before. This offered me so much flexibility in terms of working hours. I chose to work two days a week and I was usually always home by…

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  • AD| Top Tips To Help You Cope With A Fussy Eater

    April 20, 2019

    Having a fussy eater can be one of the most frustrating things for parents, especially when you have spent time preparing a meal and a toddler simply refuses to eat it. Approximately 90% of children go through at least one lengthy phase of fussy eating, so Laya Healthcare has developed this handy guide to help…

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  • That Friday Linky

    April 19, 2019

    It’s Friday again, which means it’s That Friday Linky time again! Please have a quick read of the info below and join in! As always we ask that you link up your favourite post of the week. Please don’t link up your entire blog, just one specific post that you’d like to share with us all.…

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  • Brilliant Mum Feature

    Brilliant Mum Feature 102

    April 18, 2019

    Hello and welcome to the Brilliant Mum Feature. Once a week I will be featuring one mum in a bid to find out more about them and their lives. If you’d like to take part in this series, simply fill in this form. This week our brilliant mum feature is Sigrid who blogs at Life Notes…

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  • Chicken Pox Strikes Again!

    April 17, 2019

    Last year our twin girls, R and M, both had a very mild dose of chicken pox. My husband and I crossed our fingers that that was it. They’d been lucky by only having a mild dose and they’d never get it again. Hooray! Except it didn’t quite work out like that! Around three to…

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  • How to Teach Children to Tell the Time

    April 16, 2019

    Our twin girls recently turned seven. They’re both clever, kind, caring girls who have a natural thirst for learning. I’m always amazed at the things they tell me they’ve learnt in school. In particular when they showed me some multiplication they’d learnt in school, I was amazed at how easy they’d found it. Like many…

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