A letter to my baby on your first day of school
Dear BB, It’s been four years and 23 days since you were born and changed my world forever. Just like your brother, you were a part of me I never knew was missing and I realised there had always been a BB shaped hole in [...]
Nursery school leaving present ideas: try making a DIY hamper
Today is BB’s last day of preschool before starting school on Monday. The presents for staff have been flowing in all week – according to BB wine is the best present. When I asked her how she knew this, she said: ‘because I’ve heard them [...]
Summer days out with the kids #5: Great Dorset Steam Fair & Snoozebox review
August is over, the schools are going back and the nights are drawing in. But there's still time for one last summer day out. The Great Dorset Steam Fair takes place every year at the end of August and beginning of September and is the [...]
What makes the perfect burger?
Is it the bun? Is it the cheese? Is it the meat itself? It’s a good question, and one I faced when I was invited to celebrate National Burger Day with a host of Brighton bloggers last week. It’s fair to say I don’t get [...]
Preparing your child for starting ‘big’ school
This time next week is BB’s first day of school. With the exception of becoming a big sister starting 'big' school will be the biggest life-changing event in her four short years, both for her and for me (more on that in a future post). [...]
Flashback Friday: I was too scared to buy anything for the baby
This time last year I was seven months pregnant with Little B and still hadn't bought one single baby item. I was too scared to buy anything for the baby in case something went wrong. I wrote about it in a bid to explain how I was feeling [...]
IJustLoveIt.co.uk review: helping to make sibling bedroom sharing a success
It’s been a month since Little B moved into BB’s bedroom, and I’ve been busy putting the finishing touches on the décor to help make sibling bedroom sharing a success. I’m a flowers and bunting sort of a person and am a sucker for anything [...]
How to make a Frozen birthday cake featuring Olaf out of fondant icing
There was no question what BB’s birthday cake was going to be this year: the only option was a Frozen birthday cake. I suggested we make Anna or Elsa, thinking I could use my hemisphere cake tin for the dress, decorate it with lots of [...]
5 post holiday resolutions: drink less & appreciate the little things
You know that feeling when you step off the plane, the smell and heat of a foreign country hits you and all your troubles melt away…I haven’t had that since becoming a mum. Let’s face it, there's no such thing as a relaxing holiday with [...]
Summer days out with the kids #4: Colby Woodland Garden, Pembrokeshire
Social media followers will know that this week we’re on staycation in Wales. My brother and sister-in-law have decamped to France, so we’re house sitting while they’re away and making the most of everything Pembrokeshire has to offer. Our holidays have been on a shoestring [...]
Huggies Style on the Go: we’ve gone all chic & stylish!
What with my birthday, BB’s birthday and my dad’s birthday all in the space of a week August is always a busy time for us, and this year we’ve been making the most of the sunny weather by celebrating outdoors. We marked my dad’s 60th [...]
10 things you didn’t know about me
I'm scared of the dark and should have sat on the sofa in my pyjamas more whilst on maternity leave. Those are among 10 things you (probably) didn't know about me, which Catie aka An Imperfect Mum has asked me for today's post. It’s a tag doing [...]
Flashback Friday: BB looks more and more like me
This is me when I was four. Tomorrow BB turns four, and as you can see we look quite alike. When BB was born she looked just like her daddy, but as time has gone on BB looks more and more like me, and like [...]
Supermarket or Clarks school shoes: what’s the difference?
I was planning to wait until the last week of August to buy BB’s school shoes in order to get the most out of them, but last week the woman in Clarks sagely warned me that this would be a Big Mistake. Apparently the last [...]
Cookie Crumbles baking kits review: easy cakes, muffins & brownies
Before becoming a mum just-add-an-egg baking kits weren’t something I knew anything about – it wasn’t a supermarket shelf I was familiar with because I preferred to bake everything from scratch. Although BB and I often bake ourselves and weigh out all the ingredients, I [...]
