Twister Blister
It was one of those heart in mouth moments that every mum of boys gets, but at least they are playing nicely together. Welcome to the MiniMads new game…………………………………………… Twister Blister (and yes that is MaxiMad in his pj’s)
Too Many Green Tomatoes
Our tomato’s just haven’t managed to ripen this summer and we have been left with boxes of Green ones, so we are taking a tip from Alan (Titchmarsh of course – garden guru) and have [popped them in to cardboard boxes and added an apple in the hope that some more of them ripen off.
Spiritual Sunday
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Haddon Spurgeon I thought that this was very apt this week, as we have been soldiering on regardless with MiniMad and his issues with attending Preschool. It has been a hard and heartbreaking week and many afternoons I have come home and had a good sob about
We love York
We are lucky enough not to live to far from York and on today’s like today, it is a marvelous place. It wasn’t too cold today, but very windy and we enjoyed a fantastic family day out at York. The MiniMads love watching the squirrels in The Museum Gardens. Enjoying the fresh air and sunshine,
Thrifty Christmas over at Violet Posie
I don’t know about you, but we are pretty strapped for cash at the moment and with Christmas on its way, I am looking at ways of making it less expensive and more thoughtful, less consumer driven and more cared for and considered. So when I saw that Violet Posie was hosting a Thrifty Christmas’
Less is more when it comes to gluing
MiniMad loves gluing and sticking, it is one of his favorite craft activities and he would do it all day and every day if given the chance. My one tip for this is to have everything accessible and easily seen, so that children can do all of this themselves. In my sticking box, as he
Easy Homemade Cards
We have lots of birthdays to celebrate in September and we are big fans of homemade cards. Now that MaxiMad is at school, time to make elaborate and complicated cards are a thing of the past. We needed a quick, all inclusive idea. So we made …………………… Chicken cards, which are ever so easy and
Spiritual Sunday
Motherhood There is no one way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a great one. A very powerful statement, that I try to keep in mind on those days that I am feeling less than successful in the mum department.
Tesco are getting on the Green Bandwagon…
Tesco has just launched a Greener Living website, which is aimed at assisting the “environmentally aware shopper make the right decisions” The Green in me thinks that Tesco should concentrate on trying to make the ordinary shopper more environmentally aware. It should offer incentives for people to purchase green. Many of the suggestions include a