The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
World Book Day 2018 was actually on Thursday 1st March 2018, but due to Storm Emma giving half the country a few snow days, our school postponed it to today. I unfortunately have lacked in spare time and creativity lately, so instead of whipping up a homemade masterpiece, we bought costumes for the girls. […]
Recently, we had parents evening at school and I was eager to see how my three girls were doing. Tiny and Fluffy are now in year one of primary school and last year were put on a MyPlan. MyPlan is basically an action plan for children who are a little bit behind their […]
Where would you be without an education? If you hadn’t ever gone to school or learnt to read and write, add up, have a basic understanding of the world… would you be where you are now? Would you have the job you currently work? Would you have your home? Your car? If you’re a parent, […]
I LOVE the summer holidays. I love not having to get up early, rush around and do the school run twice a day. I love being able to spend time with my girls, doing whatever we want, with no ties to education. However, it is important, that over the summer holidays, children are still learning. […]
I am a 29 year old mum of three and I have NEVER VOTED. Am I ashamed of this fact? No. Am I proud of it? No. I have happily lived in my little bubble of ignorance for all those years, so why am I bringing it up now? Well… as much as it pains […]
Bunny is in year 3 at school. Some days she comes home from school excited about the great day she has had, and other times, she says she hates school. She chats constantly about her friends some days, but other days, says her friends have been nasty to her. This is just children being children […]
Ever since school broke up for the summer, Bunny has been excited about joining the Library. Unfortunately, as we were moving house for most of the summer, it got delayed until recently. Her excitement was mostly fuelled by her school telling her about the summer reading challenge. Children are encouraged to join their local library […]
If you’ve read my post about our families Olympics obsession, Olympic Fever and our trip to London 2012 to see the Olympic Swimming Marathon, you’ll know how we’ve gone from being non-sport watchers, to heavily supporting Team GB and loving every second of the tv footage. So it was no surprise that today, with the start […]
The last ten different items I have put in my daughters lunchbox, she has been told she’s not allowed! These range from miniature biscuits, homemade or shop bought mini cakes to little chocolate bars. (The ones the shops advertise as ideal for school lunches). I only ever put one small sweet item in her lunch […]