I’m a huge fan of the national trust and we have been members since Ben was small. We’re lucky enough to have some great national trust places to visit in the North West from Dunham Massey (my favourite!) to Quarry Bank Mill, Lyme Park, Tatton Park and Formby point to name just a few… I wrote […]
As you may know the 1st to the 8th of August this year is World breastfeeding Week 2013. Although my breastfeeding journey with my daughter ended last year after 23 happy months when my little lady self weaned, it is still something I feel strongly about about promoting. The way a mother feeds her baby […]
As you may know I am a big fan of Teething Bling from www.smartmumuk.com and so is my daughter Elizabeth! She has enjoyed cutting her first six teeth on the 3 beautiful silver, amethyst and onyx pendants and amethyst bangle we have and has been happily chomping away on the black onyx pendant today as […]
So Bambino Mio have challenged me to use the Miosolo on Elizabeth overnight! Although I have been using cloth on her botty at night since she was around six months old I have a specific part of my nappy stash that I keep as ‘night time nappies’, (these are made of bamboo, are bulkier that […]
‘Under the Sea’ is Ben’s current topic at school and he absolutely loves it! At the moment he is constantly talking about fish, sharks and turtles so he was very excited to watch the trailer for Sammy’s Great Escape the new underwater adventure movie coming to cinemas on 15th February, just in time for half term! […]
So folks another week has gone already! And what a week its been! I started off really tired as it had been a long weekend… up early on Saturday to pick the in laws up from the airport and then another early morning on Sunday for the car boot sale! When Monday morning came around […]
Competition now closed! And the very lucky winner is….. Laura Bullivant! Congratulations Laura! Please email your contact details and required size to [email protected] and I will pass them onto the lovely folks at Green Nippers and arrange to have a lovely Vanilla Star babygrow sent out to you! Thank you to everyone who entered! Have […]
Last week I shared that I will be going to Britmums Live and introduced my sponsor, Crushed UK. I also wanted to join in with the linky on the Britmum’s website but I’ve just realised I’ve left it too late and it’s closed! Twitter ID: @mymumyspennies Height: 5ft 4ish Hair: Long, dark and unruly Eyes: […]
Elizabeth Rose 1. I love waking up to your smiles next to me each morning, even after sleepless nights… 2. I love the way you worship your big brother Ben and how your face lights up when he enters the room… 3. I love how proud and gentle you make your big brother whenever he […]
It’s week 3 of this years #Project365 and here are my photographs… Day 11 Today I had a #mummyfail – we took the children into our local town with the promise of spending the vouchers they were given for Christmas, we parked up and walked through the bustling shopping centre to get to the Entertainer… […]
Elizabeth has been exclusively breastfed (and I hope to be able to continue to feed her for as long as she needs), but I have on occasion expressed milk for her to drink from a bottle if I have need to pop out or have an appointment. At first she resisted but then when she […]
We’re going on a Bear Hunt Gonna catch a big one We’re not scared Oh look, a forest! A tall, tall forest. We can’t go over it, we can’t go under it. Oh NO! We’ve got to go through it…. On Friday morning we joined Paul, Forest School practitioner and Lead Adventurer at We Are Adventurers for a […]
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