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Encouraging Kids to Clean – Tips for Making Chores Fun and Effective

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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Tips for keeping your home warm over winter

Tips for Keeping Your Home Warm Over Winter – Efficient Heating Solutions

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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Everything You Need to Know About Hosting a Child’s Themed Party – Ultimate Guide

Themed parties are always such huge successes for children. They beat bog-standard bashes hands-down, because normally they encompass something a kid truly adores. Harry Potter, Disney princesses and superheroes are just a few of the popular themes that come to mind.

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