We got the bug for pancakes during half-term. On a day out in Canterbury, and weary after a lot of walking on cobbles, there was a need for a little something. Lo we spied a Creperie Van and a few minutes later were munching on pancakes whilst fending off the irrepressible flock of pigeons. The girls enjoyed their Nutella Crepe- a favourite of smalls across the land- whilst DH tucked in to apple and cinnamon. I rather controversially veered away … [Read more...]
Project 366 Week 7
Guest post from Chez Mummy: working parent, better mother?
Laura at Chez Mummy describes herself as: Wife of one, mother of two, holding down a full-time job and living through a major house renovation project. Just trying to stay sane amidst the mayhem! I think we can all relate. She's also the brain-child of the brilliant new vlogging linky, Show Real, which I plan on taking part in just as soon as I have a facelift/personal hairdresser/voice-double. She's very kindly agreed to guest post today about … [Read more...]
Call for submissions: BritMums Carnival will be here soon!
I see from the schedule (OK, RedTed told me. I'd forgotten all about it.) that I will shortly have the honour of pulling an allnighter editing entries hosting the fabulous British Mummy (and Daddy) Bloggers and the fortnightly love-fest that is The Carnival. So, I'd better get on and look like I know what the hell I'm doing: I'm fairly sure I signed up for it about a year ago and, suffice to say, I have slept since then. I'm sitting here, … [Read more...]
Dealing with Toddler Tantrums: a guest post by Joanne Mallon
Joanne Mallon is a freelance journalist and life and career coach, and I've been following her blog Joanne the Coach for a while because she's written a book called Toddlers: An Instruction Manual. The book, available through Amazon and as a Kindle download features advice from over 60 bloggers, and is helping to raise money for the family support charity Home-Start. She very kindly agreed to write a blog post on dealing with tantrums whilst I am … [Read more...]
Project 366 week 6
I'm thrilled that it's almost the middle of February as my life has been on hold waiting for an operation since the beginning of the year. Of course, winter hit a Siberian-vengance this week, with the snow overnight coating even the sea. The Girls were in snow-angel heaven. I was snuggling in front of a warm fire and DH was doing all the cooking to keep us warm. Nevertheless we weren't snowed in, so were able, as is our regular wont, to see … [Read more...]
Super simple Heart bookmarks
Sometimes you need something to distract two small children from pulling each others' hair out. My distraction took the form of a couple of envelopes. I cut hearts out of each corner and got The Girls to colour them in. It would have been easier for The Girls I think, had I got them to colour first and cut second. Either way, the end result is a set of handmade love token book marks for Granny, and two happily … [Read more...]
