Tweet Whilst browsing the card shops a few days ago, I spotted a very cute Easter chick card, which had a pull out tummy, in a sort of honeycomb effect. I almost bought it for one of my children, but realised that there wasn’t a correspondingly cute card, in a similar style, for my other […]
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Thankful Thursday 31/12/15
Tweet Wow, New Year’s Eve. The end of 2015, and a whole year to look forward to. I have to say, I am not a fan of New Year in a party sense – the whole forced jollity of it, counting down to midnight, and then… well, it’s just another day. You might as well […]
The One With The Post-Christmas Lull
Tweet Have you polished off the mince pies yet? Got room for another turkey sandwich? I’ll bet I can tempt you with a small festive tipple though? Make yourself comfy, and settle yourself down in the post-Christmas lull. Did you have a perfect Christmas Day? Did lunch go without a hitch? Or, like me, did […]
Fabulously Festive Family Christmas Quiz
Tweet I have been searching for way of entertaining my boys easily over the school holidays (Eldest’s current favourite boredom busting game is winding youngest up – it turns out not to be so much fun for anyone else!) and as well as a giant puzzle book, which lives on our kitchen table, paper chain-making, […]
My Pledge for a Stress Free Life
Tweet My name is Claire, and I am a control freak. I have to confess, I take on way too much, actively stop other people from helping me because I feel I should be doing it, and then get majorly stressed out by having to do it all, and wanting it all to be perfect. […]
Thankful Thursday #5
Tweet I am planning to redecorate Youngest’s room this weekend, so today I have been preparing so that I can enjoy a relaxing day tomorrow and get started in earnest on Saturday morning. Along the way I have uncovered a whole host of mess in his room. He is the least organised boy, and would […]
Staying Safe (and keeping children safe)
Tweet Hearing a discussion on television today, focused around schoolgirls’ attire, and whether it’s safer (or perhaps I should say, less encouraging of unwanted attention) for girls to wear thick tights with their skirts. Whilst I do agree that a lot of schoolgirls wear their skirts something on the short side (I did, and not […]
Driving Home For Christmas
Tweet As you must surely know by now, I am very proud of the area in which I live, and consider myself very lucky to be surrounded by hills and and valleys, lakes and rivers. Whenever we drive back home after a spell away, the stretch of the M6 when the mountains really take shape […]
Thankful Thursday #3
Tweet It’s been half term this week, and we were all ready for a break! Naturally this week I am grateful for lie-ins, children who bring me cups of tea, and having chance to chat to my boys over breakfast. Some of the other things I count myself lucky to have experienced are… Hairdressers Eldest […]
Snow Leopard And Cub Cake
Tweet It was J’s birthday, and as he’s still snow leopard-mad, he requested (and by requested, I mean drew a design for and left it lying around the kitchen were he knew I would see it) a cake with a snow leopard on. His little face lit up when he saw it recreated with the […]