I’ve got a fab guest post today from Maggy who you’ll normally find sticking and painting up a storm over at Red Ted Art. We were a little slow to “embrace” Halloween in our house. As a new mum, I was all into not giving my kids sweets and only being healthy. My son didn’t […]
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October’s Instagram Photo Challenge #InstaHuntOct
You may remember I gave myself a bit of a challenge in August to try and remind myself to keep snapping away on Instagram. Lots of people joined in in the end and we all had such a lovely time checking out each others pics that several people asked me if I was planning on […]
Win a Mickey Mouse Fly and Slide Clubhouse
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is one of T’s favourite shows. He loves the characters, the fun songs and the recurring catch phrases and I like that it introduces lots of pre-maths concepts like shape, position and repeating patterns without being too earnest. Fisher Price produce a range of soft toys and playsets to accompany the […]
Schools Out for Summer – Are you feeling it in your wallet?
It’s great being able to spend lots of time with the boys in the summer holidays but after six weeks of keeping them entertained my bank balance is feeling the strain. Of course there are lots of free ways thing to do with kids but by this point in the summer we’ve pretty much exhausted […]
Silent Sunday
Win a Zeamu CD – Pop music for kids
My boys love music. They love singing and dancing along and are always asking me to tell them the words (which isn’t always a good thing given the lyrics of some pop songs). This week though I haven’t had to worry about swearing or explaining why that girl crashed her car into a bridge (‘wouldn’t […]
