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How often do you let your kids loose in the kitchen? How often do you cook with them? I am under no illusion that cooking with kids isnt always the easy option, hell it is NEVER the easy options. It takes longer, is messier and can often be a real challenge. But the rewards of
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As you have probably guessed we LOVE advent and Christmas here in The Mad House. Last year we provided you with two sets of advent acts of kindness free printables. One Christmas tree shaped and the other in a tag style. This year we have a real treat for you with our advent acts of
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Advent is the perfect for focusing on the joy of the season, but it can also seem really commerical. last year we started our Advent acts of kindness, an alternative advent for kids to try and refocus this time away from receiving to giving. We do our acts of kindness in addition to our other
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Does anyone else get stressed over the festive period? I try hard not to and it has been proven that colouring for adults is great to helping us to switch off and wind down. So here I am with some exclusive free Christmas colouring pages for adults.
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This year like last year we are working in acts of kindness for advent and one of them is to donate to a foodbank. Donating to a foodbank is a really visual activity to do with children and it can make a massive difference to families and people in need. However, if you are anything
In the past I have written about strengthening our winter defences naturally and why I think that it is important that we keep on top of looking after our bodies in the most natural way we can. As someone who has been through a health scare I try and keep our immune systems healthy as possible as
Mud, glorious mud. It is the curse of any mums out there, especially in the winter. Maxi plays junior football every Sunday and comes home covered in mud every week. Now that he is ten, we have made the decision that he has to help clean up. Want to see how that turns out…..
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Christmas, we love it. But as much as I love Christmas and the build up to it, it is important to me to focus on my family and not just on the commercial aspect of just Christmas Day. Part of the way we do this is by having advent activities that we do. It helps
Our energy bills are the second only to our mortgage, so it pays for me to work at ways to reduce them or at least keep them in check. But I don’t want to be the only one doing it, I also want to encourage the kids to work at reducing the bills and educate them
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