Earlier this week I over heard a friend thanking her daughter for a lovely day. It’s something I do actually do often myself. I genuinely am thankful to my children for lovely days spent with them but I realised I hadn’t said it for a couple of weeks so I made a point of doing so. In a week which has seen a young celebrity Mother pass away and leave two babies behind her, I found it even more important […]

We’re off to the farm today for some Easter fun with Daddy ahead of next weekend when he has to work! It’s an excellent farm and really gets into the spirit of each holiday. We will have bunny jumping and egg hunting as well as getting to see all the baby animals who’ve arrived for spring and fingers crossed for some sunshine, it should be a lovely day! There WILL be chocolate. There always is when it comes to Easter […]

We had a day in central London yesterday, a lovely sunny day with Alice from An Essex Wife, her brood and some of her friends. We started the day off at a small preview of the new show coming to the New London Theatre, Elephantom! A children’s play using puppets and fun taken from the popular story book by Ross Collins. The puppetry is astounding and not surprising when you find out it’s been worked on by some of the […]

When I had Florence I had no idea what colic was. Not a clue. Then suddenly, as she got worse and worse in the evenings with crying and seeming to be in pain, the word colic became pretty familiar! She would start at about 6pm and cry, cry, cry until midnight… sometimes later… There was literally nothing I could do to soothe her and ultimately for those first couple of weeks, I would end up crying with her not knowing […]

A couple of Florence’s friends are heavily into the CBeebies show Octonauts but Florence is absolutely not. She tried to watch it once, I think wanting to enjoy it because he pals do, but admitted half way though it’s just not for her. I think a lack of anything girlie is simply not her bag and she thinks of it as a ‘boys programme’ even though she knows girls who love it… C’est las vis and each to their own! […]

This weekend just gone CBeebies Live! The Big Band had its stint in London as part of its Easter tour around the country. We were lucky enough to get to see it yesterday morning and it was AWESOME! Even Rock ‘n’ Roller Daddy, who had said it was one of the things he was least looking forward to over the break (spoil sport) had a fantastic time and came away saying what a fab show it was! A clever story line […]

So… I think we’ve established in previous posts that baking is NOT my forte. I CAN do it, take a look at this little post from last week where I successfully managed to make iced Easter biscuits for the teachers. However, the same post will tell you how I broke two mixing bowls and almost started a house fire doing it, not to mention the fact it took me ALL day! But Florence loves to bake and I think it’s […]

I love the fact that you can get all you need for any sort of party just in the supermarkets these days! There’s really no need to shop around or spend ages doing it because you can guarantee the best prices and quality all under one roof – it certainly takes a lot of hassle away from things! Take Easter for example; we go all out for it because Florence just loves it all and i love to see her […]

You might have noticed, if you’ve stopped by before, that we’re rather fond of dining out in the Rock ‘n’ Roller Baby household! I am no fabulous cook myself (although I do have a couple of tricks up my sleeve) but that doesn’t mean I don’t love food and dining out with family and friends is one of my favourite pleasures! However, not all restaurants are child friendly so I do like to find the ones which are! Of course […]

I’m running a competition to win the new Shaun The Sheep DVD ‘Spring Cleaning’ on my blog at the moment. You can enter here! I can absolutely assure you it is well worth a watch! We were sent a copy and we love it, in fact, as I type it is on the television and both Florence and Jimmy are giggling away! On Saturday the people from Shaun The Sheep treated us to even more Shaun fun and invited us […]