Celebrating the end of the school year
Our life has been really fast paced recently, mostly because of our ongoing kitchen renovation. It will definitely be worth it, but the early mornings and late nights have been really hard. Ava has suffered from night terrors all the way through too, maybe because of the upheaval. Our kitchen has had a complete replaster, […]
Spring at Fountains Abbey
Fountains Abbey is one of our favourite places to visit, and a place that has become really special to us since we started a family. It’s grown more special in the last few years when we have visited for special occasions like our wedding anniversary, which i wrote about here. Somehow we must have always escaped visiting […]
Loosing Weight with Weight Watchers Smart Points
After a year of on-off half-hearted ‘dieting’, whilst gaining weight, I finally decided that I had to commit to a weight loss plan to kick start healthy eating and weight loss. I am a huge believer that weight loss in theory is simple. If you eat less calories than your body needs, then your body […]
Extreme Reading at Fountains Abbey
If you have a primary school aged child, you have probably heard of the extreme reading challenge. You take a photo of your child reading in an extreme place, and the school hold a competition to find the pupil who has the most extreme reading photo. One of the biggest challenges for parents (and teachers!) is […]
Dear Amy, You Are Four!
Dear Beautiful Amy You are four years old, just where did the last year go little lady? If I had to choose just one word to describe my little Amy it would be happy. You always have a smile on your face or a spring in your step. You are like a shining star and […]
Mummy? We Want Another Baby!
I have been pretty quiet on this blog for a while. When life gets busy, something has got to give, and my blog has taken a bit of a back seat. Until recently, when my little Amy had to put together an ‘all about me’ box to take into nursery, and I decided to look here for […]
Dear Lily, You Are Six!
Dear Lily – You Are Six! My gorgeous girl, you are six years old! Six seems so much more grown-up somehow and I can’t believe it has been six whole years since we welcomed you into our lives. You started a new school in September. It was a completely new school, and building work had […]
When is a broken elbow, not a broken elbow?
When is a broken elbow, not a broken elbow? That’s the question we are still asking ourselves. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the night Amy hurt her arm on bonfire night. She was swinging between the arms of our two sofas and fell onto her elbow. The next day her arm had almost […]
The Christmas Adventure at Stockeld Park
We made a last-minute decision to get into the festive spirit and visit Santa at Stockeld Park. Stockeld Park came highly recommend by my friend, but it exceeded all our expectations. We timed our visit really well; on a quiet school inset day. It was a perfect day to let the children lose on an […]
Not The Bonfire Night We Expected.
Bonfire night is one of the nights I remember quite vividly from my childhood. The happy faces, the chill in the air and the smell of jacket potatoes in the oven. Some years we had our own fireworks at the bottom of my Grandparents garden. I remember some years watching the fireworks opposite our house […]