Cooking is not my strongest skill and so isn’t baking. It’s not that I can’t do it but I just don’t have the patience for it if it takes too long for example. Everything I cook or bake is coming in a form of a recipe or a sachet where you just need to get the ingredients and mix them.…
Last weekend was kind of a big deal to us. You see, my son Matthew has been using his dodie, some call it soother, others call it dummy, for over four years. To some mums this is quite a long time. To speech therapists and public health nurses it’s a no no. Each to their own. I personally wasn’t ready…
Not too long ago I came across a new illustrator. Her name is Helen. Funny, because the girl who designed my blog header is also called Helen. All Helen’s must be amazing illustrator by the looks of it. Anyway, Helen set up her own business called Dee Dee & Boo. She designs amazing prints by hand. I couldn’t believe it…
Ahhh, it’s end of September. Autumn has officially started a couple of days ago.Three months until Christmas… just saying. But first Halloween which is my second favourite season of the year. September was a pretty quiet month for us. We didn’t do anything mad or we didn’t go anywhere. We were pretty much kept busy organising our final decisions on…
Welcome back to my blog series “A Day in Parenting Blogger’s Life”. Today I actually have a special blogger joining me. Not only is she a blogger but she used to be one of my best friends in secondary school. To give you an idea, that was almost 16 years ago. We kind of lost touch when I moved to…
About two weeks ago I got a phone call from the public health nurse in the primary care centre. Matthew was due his developmental checkup.The public health nurses in Ireland are generally always behind with this kind of stuff. The checkup is normally between the age of 3 1/4 years and 3 1/2 years. Slight off at 4 years and…
Last weekend we decided to do something different for once. Weekends are family weekends. It is the only time we actually get some quality time together because the week is just so busy with work. Then you are straight into making dinners. I don’t schedule our weekends. It’s whatever happens, happens. On Friday I thought the weather is going to…
Around two week ago I received an email from the Maternity and Infant Website, Ireland’s finest parenting magazine. I love getting exciting emails every now and then. This time it involved my favourite grocery store Lidl. I do the weekly shopping here every Saturday morning. Lidl has teamed up with Maternity Infant and created a free Lidl Baby Box. You…
I was just browsing in my Bloglovin’ feed. As you do being a blogger that I am. I stumbled across a new tag. I haven’t done one in a while now. I really love finding these things. I’d love to do one at least once a month. Anyway, this one is actually not about me this time. It’s called “The…
Welcome back to “A Day in a Parenting Blogger’s Life”. We are on week three. Can you believe it? Today we have Emily from Twin Mummy and Daddy. Read below about a day in a life of Twin Mummy and Daddy. 1. First of all, tell me a bit about yourself. I’m 29 and I live in Cardiff with my…
We are at the end of September now which I think makes it ok to talk about Halloween already. In my opinion you can never start early enough to organise Halloween. The early the better. You are asking why that is? The middle of September is when all the stock is coming into the shops. You will be guaranteed to…
With autumn showing and the days getting colder, we are going to spend more time indoors. It can be quite tricky to keep the kids entertained. We do spend a lot time in the house to be honest. Mainly because there is generally not much to do around where we live other than going to soft play, a walk in…
I was never a fan of mess. I am trying to keep mess at a minimum in our house. Arts and crafts doesn’t really exist in our house, only up until recently. Not just from the mess side but also because I am not a big fan of arts and crafts. I do like to look up certain stuff for…
Following on from my recent post what requirements we have for our new family home, I’d like to share with you today, what you need to consider deciding when buying a new build house. I mentioned a few times lately that we are going to relocate. Mainly for work commitments. So right now we are in the middle of purchasing…
Welcome back to my second week of “A Day in a Parenting Blogger’s Life”. I had a great number of responses for blog series and it looks like it will be going for a very long time. So I just want to thank everyone who signed up so far. Today we have Lindsay from Newcastle Family Life. I have been…
Another month has passed. The bonding between brother and sister has grown even more. I mentioned last month, that Chloe started to stand up when we were on holidays in Spain. Since then she has become more adventurous. She can now walk along the furniture and we got out the walker again that taught Matthew how to walk when he…
Safety is the most important thing when it comes to our children. Especially when you travel by car. A good quality car seat is absolute necessary in my opinion. Matthew only ever had one car seat since he was a baby, apart from the infant car seat of course. Up until a month ago he was still in his Group…
It looks like autumn is on its way. At the weekend it definitely showed its side. It was raining all weekend. For Ireland we had such a great summer and it was always warm enough to be going outside in a T-shirt or a light cardigan. I am going to miss it. But autumn is also a good excuse to…
A while ago I was contacted by a lovely girl from a company called Cleverbooks. She offered me to review one of their new personalised kids books. I don’t say “no ” to educational and, even better, personalised books. So what do Cleverbooks do? Cleverbooks deliver educative stories that help parents to educate kids to understand and apply many useful things…
I am happy to announce my first ever blog series to you. There are several different blog series out there that it was actually hard to find one that doesn’t exist yet. I follow so many parenting bloggers everyday, read their posts etc. I wanted to know how their daily life is structured. For that reason I created a blog…
