Olympic Football – Our Olympics
It was amazing, The atmosphere was electric and the games were suburb. We had just a wonderful time.
July 2012
Olympic Writing and an Olympic Medal Chart
Design a poster for your favorite Olympic sport.
I hope you have as much fun as we are over the course of the Olympics and would love to know what activities you are doing.
Simply Swimwear Review – Boys wetsuits
I was starting to despair that we would have no sun this summer to be able to review these for you. but finally the sun has come out and so have our supersoakers!
These shorty wet suits are £18.50 each and will see them throughout the summer. The service we received was suburb as the first ones they sent were the wrong ones, so we received a paid return label and the replacements by return. They are much less restrictive that the full neoprene ones, so your children will be more comfortable in them and I like how they cover more of them up than just trunks or swim shorts.
Let’s Make Dairylea
I have an admission to make. Maxi was my PFB (Perfect First Born) when it came to food. Nothing processed or shop bought passed his lips until he went in to hospital at 6 months and even then we were soon back on to the mummy made stuff. When Mini was born it was more of the same. I used to beat myself up to produce a family meal that would feed us all. I had sleepless nights over the amount of salt in food and would get all paniccy at the thought of someone giving either of the boys something proceseed.
Summer Holidays – The write way! Bookmaking with Children
This week we are going to make our own book. There are lots of ways to do this and it can be very simple such as a number of pages just folded and staples or you can use padding compound and make your own notebook.
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Summer Holidays – The write way!
This summer is going to be the summer of writing at The Mad House and we would like you to join us. I have blogged about encouraging and nurturing writing in boys and why writing is so important. Good writers make good readers and vice versa, but good writers also make great students. The speed and ease or children’s writing
Raising Olympians #RaisinganOlympian
But then it came to me. Both my boys are very academic and sporty and excel in these areas. However, Maxi is a pretty sensitive young man and although he is more than happy to get up and speak in front of an audience, he finds dressing up and expressing himself challenging. This year he was asked if he would like to be part of a drama group and even though it was way out of his comfort zone, he accepted and did an hour after school every week leading up to a show this week.
Both MadDad and My sister in law took the time off to come and see the show we me. We didn’t know a lot about it as Maxi had kept us in the dark, all we know was it was Joseph and His Technicolor Dream-coat and that he had a solo in it. What can I say, my boy astounded me and left his Daddy speechless. He was amazing., He stepped out of his comfort zone and put his whole heart in to his performance. He smiled through the play. He sang with gusto and his solo brought a tear to my eye. But the best thing about it was that he enjoyed the whole experiance.
The I’m Bored Jar
Do the summer holidays fill you with dread? Do you worry about keeping your children occupied without spending a fortune? Do you dread the words “i I am bored”? Or worry about the very English summer we are having? If so I can help you!
Weekending
Early morning fun with cushions and pillows
Going up the cliff on the funicular
Jack Daniels and Flat Frank (helping with the toothache)
A fab buy from the Love of Vintage fair
Fish, chips and tartar sauce on the seafront.
A day by the shore
Ice creams (not for me, see earlier note ab