I recently found a great pin- a questionnaire about Mummy. As we were spending time at the table anyway, I asked my girls the questions and these are the answers I got. [I couldn't help myself from commenting in square parentheses.] 1. What is something that Mamma always says to you? Can I kiss you forever? - Both [I do. It's my most fabourite game.] 2. What makes Mamma happy? When we tidy our beds beautifully - … [Read more...]
15 Tips for talking to children about death
Last Friday we learned the sad news that my Uncle had died. Whilst he is not a relative we see regularly, he is my family and I will attend the funeral this week and will be taking Dimples with me. Which of course, means talking to my children about the topic of death. LBG is five and Dimples is three, so I don't expect them to get the intricacies but, for their own sake as well as the grieving family, it would be prudent to give them a few … [Read more...]
Let Us Tell You a Story- Part Two
You played Consequences as a child, didn't you? The game where every person writes a line to the story- only having seen the preceeding line- and at the end you all sit and read it out and have a jolly good laugh? Well this isn't like that. Every day one of a crack group of bloggers will be adding a paragraph to our collaborative tale, weaving the story in whichever way they chose, until at the end we put it all together, publish it and … [Read more...]
Paper Lantern Bats and Ghosts for Halloween
Now that the nights are drawing in, my thoughts are turning to the Autumn and Winter events on the calendar, the first one being Halloween, which is a big event in our house. Not for the spookiness, but for the annual Pumpkin Party that is usually scheduled around that time. So when Red Ted Art threw down the crafting gauntlet for Halloween crafts, you would have thought that we would dive into the Pumpkin crafting with delight. Not so. … [Read more...]
Cereal Box Craft: Mini Doctor’s Kit
I was recently challenged to get crafty with a cereal box. It can be quite tricky when you are given a product with which to craft. You have to look at it for a while and mull it over. Anthea at Zing Zing Tree is a great advocate for this approach to craft and comes up with some amazing things. I tend to have a reactive approach to crafting. My girls have an obsession with bags. They love carrying things around in anything, whether it is a … [Read more...]
Moving on
For the past few months things have been a little fraught at DG Manor. We have been negotiating and hoping and praying that we would be able to buy a new house, sell ours, move The Girls to a new school. It's been like trying to sort out a Rubik's cube: there have definitely been days where it felt further away than ever. But at lunchtime on Friday we received the news. Which means I have five working days to plan and orchestrate 'Moving … [Read more...]
Instagram Blog Hop: it has awesome written all over it.
You follow me on Instagram, right? Tell me you do! Actually I'm fairly sure the constant stream of photos of the stunning Norwegian countryside made you unfollow me. But follow me again, please? There's something in it for you, honestly. See that little linky mcthingy down there vvv ? That's for you. Join in and share your instagram profile and you could gain lots of followers. Added to which, have you seen the people who have put this baby … [Read more...]
