family life & travels
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn With mother’s day just been and gone, it does make me reflect on all that being a mother means to me. With my eldest now being six, I have had seven Mother’s Days so far (the first when he was only a few months
In today’s day and age there is a great emphasis on healthy eating, being active, being environmentally friendly, using the healthiest beauty products, and so on. But there are some day to day activities that we participate in that seem to somehow get skimmed over; people are beginning to cotton on to the idea that
I am a meal planner. There, I said it. I also like cooking from scratch. Some weeks go brilliantly. All meals are prepared in advance and are very nutritionally balanced. Some weeks can just be terrible, depending on how things are going, what the kids are up to and what we have planned. So on
If you’re not sick of seeing all of these post doing the rounds in the blogosphere, I’ll add my two cents as to what I learnt and what I thought go my first time at the blogging conference BritMums Live (BML). I have only been to one blogging conference before , BlogFest, back in November. Though
Yes, you read that title correctly, I’m going to BML16! For those of you that don’t know, BritMums Live is a blogging conference for UK parent bloggers. It is one of the biggest conferences on the blogging calendar and it is held in London. I have only ever been to one blogging conference before, Blogfest,
Max is my little milk monkey (is that a thing?!). Regardless, he loves drinking milk and has done so since I stopped breastfeeding him when he was 9 months young. Drinks milk with his breakfast, milk with his lunch and milk with his dinner (plus some water in-between of course, parenting police) – he can’t
For me, playtime with the kids has to be led by the kids. I can be a bit rubbish at messy play if I’m honest, so if it was up to me, that wouldn’t happen all that often. But I know it is so important that it does. I try to use Montessori methods to
My little ones aren’t old enough to be on ‘school holidays’ yet (though I know that will come around super quickly), but we have been enjoying this lovely warm weather and getting out and about as much as we can. We haven’t wanted to spend a lot so we created a little bucket list of
Dear Mummy, We know you can be a little bit nervous sometimes, a little bit anxious. We know you worry about how you look, especially since having us. Well, we want to tell you that we think you’re amazing. We think you’re the best mummy ever. And you know, why? Because you have the best tummy
