This is Florence’s first year of proper school so this is the first year I’ve had to be organised about absolutely everything. Organised about remembering books and bags and making sure I’m on time. Organised about uniform being clean, dry, ironed AND having a spare set in her bag just in case (in the first week I managed to fail at that entirely and when everything was still drying I took out the spare set for her to wear. Of […]

After our first Friday Night Treat Tea last week we have all been looking forward to another one and waiting for the long first full week of school to finish so that we could get on with our Princess themed tea! This is what we had for our Princess treat tea today! To drink I made a jug of water and dropped Vimto cordial ice cubes in the shapes of hearts into it. I also added edible glitter to the […]

Well, we made it through the first whole week of school with only a little drama. Florence has had up and down moments but thankfully more ups and she is already coming on leaps and bounds with her reading which she was already pretty good at from nursery. I’d like to take some credit but really, aside from sitting and listening to her read of an evening, it’s all her! She loves words and has been fascinated by being able […]

Back in June I was invited by Colgate to a party at the Bompas and Parr head Office to take part in their Colgate Sentitive Pro-Relief Challenge. Food and drinks with lots of teeth tingling ingredients to see if my sensitive teeth cold cope once I’d used their Pro-Relief prior to consuming! It worked really well and I really enjoyed all the lovely foods that might usually make my teeth, if not me, wince! I was sent home with a […]

After Florence’s first day of school and the end of her first week I decided to make our very first Friday Night Treat a pirate themed one! Both children loved it and it was so easy! I bought a table cloth, silver paper plates and some curly straws from Poundland along with a glass jug (I will use all again) and then created the rest of the bits using things we already had like a fish ice cube tray from Ikea. […]

Florence had her first day of school this week and with my heart in my mouth I spent the entire day just waiting to go and pick her up again. She was fine. Didn’t cry once. I cried quite a bit. I dabbed my eyes (didn’t want mascara to fall down my face in front of her extremely young looking and very attractive male teacher – the other Mums and I call him Mr Foxy) in the classroom as I […]

I wrote a few weeks ago about the new Bugaboo Bee 3 which is launched this month but I hadn’t yet seen it in person. I’m a big fan of the Bee and always have been. I still use my original which is 5 years old and I also love my Bee Plus but there are elements of both buggies which are better than the other. I like the hood on the original because it is longer but I like […]

When Florence was born we got no sleep until I finally relented and brought her in bed with us. It took three weeks for me to finally give up trying to lower her into the moses basket and remove my hands from her slowly so that she didn’t notice (she always did) and wait for the screams. When I sat down on my bed her whole body would relax and after we started co-sleeping I couldn’t understand what took me […]