I never have been able to get used to the fact that literally the day after Halloween is finished, Christmas food and toys and presents appear in the shops and our store fronts slowly get transformed into winter wonderlands… I am that person that mutters ‘its only just November’ as she winds her way around […]
As I sit here writing this post, the latest season of MasterChef ‘the professionals’ has started on our TV. I love my cooking and love watching these chefs panic as they stare at a table of random ingredients pondering what to cook for the judges as part of the invention test at the beginning of […]
At last… I think I have decided…. Whats the big decision, is it a paint colour for my soon to be painted kitchen? No. Is it what I want for dinner tonight? No… its THE decision of the moment…. I don’t think I want to have any more babies…. I am sure that will leave […]
So, this time last year, I still had a stash of buckets and spades in the boot of my car and suncream in my handbag but well… not this year! Autumn has arrived and it has felt pretty chilly as I hustle the girls into the car on the way to school for the last […]
Keep it Simple Stupid…Now, please don’t turn the screen off, I am not calling you stupid! I guess this post has come around from my looking at how I play with my kids and how I have had to have a word with myself and remember that saying from my past life working in marketing… […]
I hate the thought of my children being addicted to computer games, turning into those grunting types who have evolved bigger thumbs because they spend so long attached to their playstationDS or whatever its called…BUT I LOVE the thought of my kids growing up IT savvy and being able use and enjoy the latest technology […]
Hypnobirthing worked for me…. and it might for you! SO – once you have overcome the shock / excitement / extreme panic or all of the above that you are pregnant, it won’t take long for you to start pondering the fact that you are, at some point in the near future, going to have […]
Pizza….. who doesn’t love it? In our house – we LOVE pizza and until recently, we used to spend far too much money eating it in nice beachside establishments! Now we still love to eat out together as a treat but when my good friend passed me this AMAZINGLY EASY recipe, it changed our pizza […]
I once swore to a friend that i would never have a plastic baby in my house. I hated them, never played with them myself as a child and never wanted my children to have them either – too many thoughts being conjured up of broken babies with non blinking eyes staring at me i […]
So, believe it or not, my little baby turned two this week. To say that your second childs life whizzes past you at supersonic speed is an understatement. It feels like only yesterday that I was trying to juggle a new baby with having a 2.5yr old starting nursery and now, just as my big […]