Winter Holidays In Spain With Kids! Travelling with children isn’t always easy so choosing the right destination is key. It’s got to work for the adults and the children in harmony and that’s why I’d always opt for a family holiday in Spain over any other while my kids are little. The ease of a short flight coupled with a country where I feel comfortable, staying in resorts which work for us as a family have always come easily when […]
Health Visitor Survey Caroline Williams, head of engagement at Healthwatch Norfolk I am happy to admit it has been a few years since I was a new mum, but I can still remember the time I got home with my twins for the first time and thought, ‘now what do I do?’ One of the great emotional lifelines for me was my health visitor who was there to help and support me through the twins’ early days, but they continue […]
Halloween Half Term 2022! We went into half term with Posie falling foul to the sickness bug her sister and brothers had before her and unfortunately had to cancel the first of our plans which was friends coming to stay for the weekend. They are lovely friends however, and they came to see us just for lunch out while Gram did a bit of babysitting. Still not quite ourselves on the Sunday we just mooched about, Florence went to a […]
The First Half Term 2022! While this first half term at school has gone by in a flash, it’s also felt super tough at times. I struggled a lot with Raffie going to school and still am. He feels too little and the time he spent as a pre-schooler feels like it was robbed with COVID so I’m sort of mourning the fact he’s not at home with me anymore on many levels. He is very happy to be at […]
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Dearest Raffie – You Are Five! Dearest Raffie, You are five years old! I blinked and here we are, my littlest boy at school and doing so well at that. Aren’t you just wonderful, living up to the name sunshine, I have always called you, in every way. You just love being a school boy and making shields with recycling as well as drawing lots of submarines (still one of your most favourite things in the world)! You are learning […]
Dearest Raffie – You’re At Big School Now! Dearest Raffie, You’re at big school now and after your first day of 2.5 hours settling in you came home having loved it! Mummy on the other hand is rather bereft of your fine company, or, rather, the knowing that I will lack your company far more this week. For the first week you only did four mornings but niw it’s onto full days and the reality of a full day in […]
Back To School – September 2022! The summer holidays are really over and here we are back to the grind in what seems like the blink of an eye. I say “back to school” but of course, for Raffie, this is his first year at school ever and his debut into the school scene. I very definitely have more than a little something in my eye for I’m not the Mum who’s pleased to see them go back, I’m not […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Six! Well we had to come home from Tenerife at some point I suppose… It was hard to drag ourselves back to real life but we had a couple more days in the sun to see us into week six of the summer holidays before it was back to reality. And I guess having a week at home before the madness of school, and, gulp, Raffie starting (I well up when I say that, it […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Five! More fun in the sun, we feel so lucky to be having such a wonderful holiday although we did have a bit of a blip when Raffie had to go to hospital with a poorly tummy. Medication for the pain, they think caused by swimming pool water he’s accidentally drunk, and a probiotic are his prescription and when the pain comes the drops really do take it away instantly. Poor poppet. He’s still enjoying […]
