Although school seems like a distant memory for Athena it’s only a matter of weeks until she’s back at school, a new junior school in fact! So that means new uniform, bag and shoes! This year she’ll be wearing Treads ‘Alberta’ shoes, which are a leather mary-jane style with a velcro strap, which is her preferred style. Treads only make and sell…
We were sent this item to review for the purpose of this blog post, all words and opinions are my own. If you follow me on Instagram you may have noticed that we added a kitten to our family a few weeks ago. Although we’ve both had cats before it hasn’t been for a long time so we made a…
This is a collaborative post. Right now, the world has been locked down for weeks on end and for some, they’ve discovered that they love to work from home. It’s this lockdown period that has shown people how viable working from home really is, and it has inspired many to go ahead and set up on their own. For some…
Disclosure: We were sent the featured product for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own. Who remembers making friendship bracelets at school? I do! But I don’t remember how to make the patterns and designs in them, my memory can’t think 30 years back that clearly! But there’s now a really easy way to make both…
Like so many of us all over the world I have found myself thrown into the world of homeschooling, with absolutely no choice on the matter! The kids are probably bored of me trying to teach them things like maths and english and I am desperately searching for new ways to entertain them. They’re suffering from not seeing their friends…
I had lots of good intentions to start getting fitter and shaping up when I got back from New York (where I enjoyed lots of great but not very healthy food!) and then Corona virus happened. I was planning on supplementing walking my two school runs a day with either starting couch to 5k again or going to the gym…
Arlo loves anything that changes shape, so when a parcel of Bakugan toys arrived and he opened it up to find lots of BakuBalls inside along with the Bakugan Armored Alliance Battle Arena he got pretty excited! What is Bakugan? Bakugan started life as an animated TV series about creatures called ‘Bakugan’ and their owners, who do brawls with them. …
Well March has been a bit of a disaster hasn’t it! The buzz-words of the month are definitely ‘Social Distancing’, ‘Lockdown’, ‘home learning’ and ‘C0ronavirus’. It’s definitely a month that nobody will forget. As usual I tried to escape reality by sleeping more and reading more, and have been quite successful in both, and less so in teaching the children…
We all love jigsaw puzzles in this house, they used to be reserved for a post school treat or a Sunday afternoon activity after we’d been out for the day. However as none of us are going anywhere much during these lockdown times puzzles have become more of a regular occurence in our house these past few weeks. A great…
Trolls World Tour, the sequel to the first Trolls movie has been released to watch now, skipping the cinema release so that we can all watch at home! My kids, Athena especially, have been waiting for this for ages, and we would have seen it at the cinema during the Easter holidays. But due to lockdown we’re really pleased it…
I have been pretty lazy with the ‘Me and Mine’ posts that I have been so good with over the years. Normally I share a photo of our family at the end of each month but this year it just hasn’t happened until now, a quarter of the way through the toughest year ever (as 2020 will probably be forever…
Just when you thought you knew all about the ways to use tech to keep your kids entertained (including asking Alexa to make fart noises) you find something that blows everything else out of the water. It’s not only fun, but also educational enough to count as learning, which during these strange covid19 infused times is more important than ever! Osmo is a super…