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Blog about life with two small children, includes arts and crafts, toddler activities and general parenting chat
2024-02-04 12:55
Ad One of the things that I wish I could most change is how much sleep I get each night. Rarely, I sleep well and I find that I am often awake a couple of times each night. At the start of t… Read More
2023-09-24 12:37
Ad We recently took our first overseas holiday with the children. We had hoped to take them earlier but Covid and all the additional testing etc you needed to do for that made us delay our p… Read More
2023-09-01 14:02
For one reason and another, I haven’t written one of these posts for a month or two… no real reason other than life being busy and finding less time to write. But, the en… Read More
2023-07-20 10:26
A fun family trip is always something to look forward to, especially when you have children who are exploring the world for the first time. A global Family Travel Association survey states t… Read More
2023-07-09 12:30
Ad Despite the weather taking a bit of a downward turn in recent days, the summer break is almost upon us and I am sure, like myself, there are many families wondering how to make the most o… Read More
2023-06-03 07:24
Another month passes by and we are now moving into the summer term, and the final term of this school year. We have had a busy month and are thankful that we seem to be on the way to… Read More
2023-06-02 04:17
Ad Damian has had some time off work and, with it being a half term here, we had a few plans of things to do. Over the weekend we headed to Wembley for the EFL Play offs to watch our home te… Read More
2023-05-07 13:18
Another month and another round up – the year seems to be hurtling by and with it the move into what would be D’s final year of primary school and some big decisions ahead… Read More
2023-04-13 18:28
Another month and I am a little late writing this up as I am full of a cold and hayfever and generally feeling a bit meh. The time of year when I need a break and just take a step back from… Read More
2023-03-22 20:35
Ad I have had a Garmin Vivoactive smartwatch since around 2019 and I wear it daily. I originally purchased it in order to utilise the GPS and mileage tracking when I was doing a lot of runni… Read More
2023-03-03 19:21
Ad Struggling for family day out ideas that are both fun and memorable for both adults and children? Look no further than Chill Factore, a unique and exciting winter sports destination locat… Read More
2023-03-02 10:29
As ever, as I sit to write this post I thought we hadn’t achieved much this month due to far too much engagement with the NHS. However, even with that, plus a short half term break, we… Read More
2023-02-27 21:13
Ad Children seem to have limtless amounts of energy and as the better weather is on its way, the children are wanting to get outdoors even more. There’s lots of ways you can join your… Read More
2023-02-23 07:39
Today, little Em is nine. Not so little, but little enough to still be my ‘little’ Em, and, finally she is nine. Em has been counting down to this birthday for a little time now… Read More
2023-02-02 19:46
After a terrible December I am pleased to say that January has been much much better! We have managed to crack on with a huge amount of work, as well as get back to our regular groups… Read More
2023-01-24 21:18
Ad I was chatting with a friend a few weeks back who was planning a weekend in London with her children and was asking if I had any tips from my own trips a few years back. We went when the… Read More
2023-01-06 20:15
Well, I wasn’t going to write a December post, as it was a truly horrible month for us and very little happened in the way of learning, but I figure it’s good to show when… Read More
2022-12-04 14:59
Well, November has been and gone and I really thought this month had been a slow month, a month where not a great deal was achieved. Not a lot of focus and not a lot done. The r… Read More
2022-11-28 21:43
I share a fair bit of my needlework over on Instagram, and have been asked so many times by people how I have learned to embroider and things that I recommend to help people learn or get int… Read More
2022-11-10 22:17
Ad Autumn is my absolute favourite time of the year. The air feels different and the colours and light just hit in a different way. It always feels like a productive time of year both learni… Read More
2022-11-05 07:40
I’m not big into Halloween, well not into it in any way at all. I just don’t understand it but we do mark All Saints and the month of All Souls and we talk a lot about festivitie… Read More
2022-11-03 08:37
October is one of my favourite months, and this one has been no exception. The weather has been that perfect autumnal style (although as I write this in early November it’s terr… Read More
2022-10-24 06:36
So today ticks around and marks another milestone, our eldest turns Ten. Ten. A whole decade of Daniel. I can scarcely believe it. I’ve put off writing this post as it’s difficul… Read More
2022-10-15 07:32
Well, I wasn’t sure if I was going to post a round-up of the things we have been doing, but I do quite enjoy the reflecting on how quiet or busy a month has been, and I’ve finall… Read More
2022-09-01 18:46
We have been taking it easy during the summer and not really doing much in the way of formal learning. We have all needed a break and the way that holidays and other things fell, we have bee… Read More
2022-08-02 15:32
As ever, another month has been and gone and with it the end of another academic year. I’m not hugely wedded to the academic years but they are good markers and a time to reflec… Read More
2022-07-12 19:27
Last week was the final project fair of the academic year and it was literature themed. These are project fairs that I have organized throughout the academic year. They are good fun, but als… Read More
2022-07-02 15:11
June has been and gone and with it another birthday for one of the children. June has been busy and the children have worked hard to finish up projects as well as progressing thr… Read More
2022-06-23 05:23
Another birthday arrives today and with it a sense of time marching on. Today the youngest member of our little family turns six. And it’s a birthday he has been counting down to for a… Read More
2022-06-20 17:45
Ad I think it’s fair to say that many people are noticing an increase in the amount they’re spending on everyday items at the moment. I know every time I go to the supermarket I… Read More
2022-06-09 06:53
Back in 2020 and early 2021, we did a lot of learning about different artists and different styles of art. I was super excited when I saw that this month’s Post from the Past was… Read More
2022-06-06 19:41
Well, as ever, May has flown by, and I almost forgot to write this post! It was only when I was checking the dates on my food shopping I realized we are almost a week into June! I thi… Read More
2022-05-23 05:48
I thought I’d share some different approaches that home educators might take when covering history in their day to day. My personal approach is to do project-based studies. I have, so… Read More
2022-05-22 12:32
Friday of last week saw our penultimate project fair of the (academic) year with a Nature themed fair. The premise of the fairs if quite simple – create a project connected to the them… Read More
2022-05-12 18:38
For the last three months, we have been enjoying receiving letters from Post From The Past. If you’re not familiar with these then do read on; they have been a great addition to our ho… Read More
2022-05-02 18:01
April has seemed like a strange month. We took a proper two week half term break around Easter time, and much of our activities were off over a three week period due to differing holiday bre… Read More
2022-04-07 10:17
We seemed to have been super busy as March ended, hence why this update is much later than usual! I’m not sure when March ended and April began, but it’s been busy and a lot of f… Read More
2022-04-03 13:55
Ad If you read my monthly home ed posts then you might have seen that we have had a big focus in recent months on getting H more confident with his reading. He definitely doesn’t have… Read More
2022-03-04 19:24
And another month has zoomed by – so much so that I’m late writing this lookback! I usually have these written but February finished and March started with a bang so this is the… Read More
2022-02-17 07:17
One of the things that we have been working on since the new year is independent work. The older two are more than capable of taking a project and doing their own thing with it, and this in… Read More
2022-02-11 15:56
Ad I wrote recently on an Instagram post that I am not a huge fan of baking with the children. I am not a fan of baking in general, and as my children like to remind me, our friends a… Read More
2022-02-10 06:30
Ad One of the things that I thought might be useful to do is to try and write about our experiences with a range of resources that we have used to support our home education. For full disclo… Read More
2022-02-01 19:54
I have written in the past about using children’s interests to motivate their learning. A few years ago D was *really* into the footballer Sergio Aguero, and we made a whole project ba… Read More
2022-02-01 19:18
Gosh, 2022! Doesn’t that seem strange! I can scarcely believe it’s 2022 and that we are already through the first month! People often moan about January but it’s a month th… Read More
2022-01-19 16:39
Regular followers of my Instagram will know that over the last year I’ve picked up my old hobby of cross stitch and have also taught myself hand embroidery. I find that the evenings ar… Read More
2022-01-13 19:05
Ad In the UK, more and more families are choosing home education over traditional schooling. According to an article from the BBC, the number of children being home educated rose… Read More
2022-01-03 18:14
Welcome to another round-up of our Home Education and this one signals the end of the year. It’s been a strange year, again, but it is what it is and I feel that despite that strange t… Read More
2021-12-14 11:19
Ad Anyone who knows me will know I am so looking forward to the end of this week and the end of all our planned activities and the chance to just stop. Nothing for me to prepare for, no sess… Read More
2021-12-06 20:39
Ad I must admit I am a bit of a sucker for anything that can be considered a ‘traditional gift’. My own memories of childhood are of playing lots of games and taking great deligh… Read More
2021-12-04 13:28
Welcome to another round-up of our Home Education. November seemed to come and go rather quickly! It’s felt like a busy and productive month and we are all certainly ready for the rela… Read More
2021-11-28 13:59
Ad As I mentioned earlier in the week we headed across to Blackburn last night for their Christmas lights switch on and the first day of their The Snowman and the Snowdog brick models t… Read More
2021-11-25 07:00
Ad Do you like to do family Christmas days out in the lead up to Christmas? I find it can feel a bit overwhelming at just how many things there are to do. We tend to try and do… Read More
2021-11-21 18:27
Ad Over the weekend I was talking with friends about plans for next year and potential trips away and we got to talking about some of our favourite holidays in the past. One friend mentioned… Read More
2021-11-16 07:00
Ad I have been looking at purchasing some frames in recent months to frame some of my cross stitch and embroidery work and have found Desenio to have a good range of frames in a wide… Read More
2021-11-02 20:01
Welcome to another round-up of our Home Education. October has felt like a bit of a mixed bag; we have had some time off due to annual leave and half-term falling in October and we had a bit… Read More
2021-10-25 18:47
Ad I am a bit fan of K’Nex and it’s something that both the boys in particular really enjoy. H has the more junior K’Nex (it’s chunkier pieces that are easier to fit… Read More
2021-10-24 06:00
Today marks the day our eldest turns nine. One year away from the magic double figures and halfway to ‘becoming an adult’ as he told me earlier this week. As ever I find myself s… Read More
2021-10-16 10:12
Ad We will soon be marking D’s ninth birthday and it’s probably the first time I have struggled to think of ideas for what to get him. After much thinking and stealth like quizzi… Read More
2021-10-05 18:27
Well, I’m a bit late to sharing this – life seems to have got busy again and finding the time and energy to sit down and write has been lacking in recent weeks. But that s… Read More
2021-09-22 19:42
Ad One of the subjects I really love to cover with the children is Geography. There’s so much that you can do to create a really fun and engaging geography project and you can make it… Read More
2021-09-22 19:42
Ad One of the subjects I really love to cover with the children is Geography. There’s so much that you can do to create a really fun and engaging geography project and you can make it… Read More
2021-09-07 14:05
Ad I am really positive that the effects of regular exercise cannot be underestimated. I’ve always been active throughout my life, and, like most people, have periods where ther… Read More
2021-09-02 18:34
I always find August a strange month; it’s when we tend to take a break, of sorts, but not our main break, and it is also, ALWAYS, a month I find hard. It’s a month that I find d… Read More
2021-08-23 06:15
Ad If anyone else excited about the coming weeks? I LOVE this time of year. I know some people find the turning of the year in January to be a great time to make resolutions but for me it&rs&hell…Read More
2021-08-22 13:51
Ad – Gifted Item I can scarcely believe we are almost into September – where has the time gone?! There has been a definite change in the air in the last week and it’s… Read More
2021-08-20 19:05
Ad We have had such a brilliantly fun time today in Blackburn following their brand new Brickosaurs trail! It was a really fun way to spend the day and I thought I’d share about our tr… Read More
2021-08-02 18:26
July seems to have absolutely flown by, and it feels like, home ed wise, this has been a good month for us. I feel like we have managed to achieve a fair bit this month and get a bit of bala… Read More
2021-07-29 19:47
Gosh, I can scarecly believe I am about to enter into my fifth year(!) of home education. I feel like, despite the (many) challenges of the last 18 months, we have found a rhythm that… Read More
2021-07-26 06:00
gifted item I am so pleased to be today’s stop for the Listen, Layla book tour. Listen, Layla is a book by Yassmin Abdel-Magied and I started to read it until Em spotted it and whisked… Read More
2021-07-22 19:20
It dawned on me this week that I have less than 18 months to a so-called milestone birthday. Now, I don’t think much about age as anything much more than a number, but I thought it mig… Read More
2021-07-08 12:40
The fact that I have taken so long to write this June round-up is probably a good indication of where we are at with Home Ed right now. It’s been a lax few weeks in all honesty –… Read More
2021-06-16 05:22
Ad – gifted items We LOVE Little World Builder here, and the children thoroughly enjoyed their first set of subscription boxes back in 2019/2020 time. I wrote about them here. When the… Read More
2021-06-02 13:22
May has been a quieter month, less productive in some ways, but a needed rest for us all as other life things took over. We had hoped for better weather during May but it was rather wet and… Read More
2021-05-31 08:05
Another month has ticked by and another month to appraise where we are up to and what our next plans are. I’m not sure that May was a particularly productive month; we had lots of othe… Read More
2021-05-20 19:38
Ad I think we can all agree that the last 12-15 months or so have been somewhat difficult. Even if you’ve been relaxed about the risks posed by covid, we have all seen our lives turned… Read More
2021-05-12 19:08
Post sponsored by Bailey of Bristol It feels like better days are finally here, and we are hopeful we will get away for our planned break in a few weeks’ time. The change in lif… Read More
2021-05-10 05:15
Ad We have been starting to look at Charles Darwin this last week and I have been sharing some Darwin-themed books over on my Instagram feed. I thought I’d pull them together into a bl… Read More
2021-05-01 06:18
Well, I think it’s fair to say that April has been a super busy month! We have worked on a large project as well as continuing on with our core work. We seem to have been able to get o… Read More
2021-04-30 05:22
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Bridget Riley. This was a fun artist to look at as her Op Art is very unlike the other art we… Read More
2021-04-29 09:03
Ad – includes some gifted books and affiliate links We have recently completed an Ancient Greece study and, as ever, we used plenty of books to support this topic. I thought I would sh… Read More
2021-04-28 19:00
Ad It’s been so lovely to have the better weather over the last few weeks and how nice it has been to enjoy walks with friends and (fully risk assessed and covid compliant) outdoor ses… Read More
2021-04-28 05:36
Another month has ticked by and another month to appraise where we are up to and what our next plans are. I feel like we have got through a lot of work since the start of 2021 and I am hopin… Read More
2021-04-27 13:25
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Banksy. This was a different session to the others that I have run as not a great deal is know… Read More
2021-04-18 11:27
Ad If you follow me on Instagram you might have spotted by stories over the last week or two where I have talked a little about a rather nasty reaction I had to a horsefly bite. I am… Read More
2021-04-11 15:22
Ad – contains gifted items and affiliate links We recently completed a short stone age topic here and I thought I would share the books that we used for this study. Some of these books… Read More
2021-04-06 05:25
I am slightly delayed with this post, mostly due to Easter but also partly due to our internet service being down for three days which meant I fell behind with prep for the children and my b… Read More
2021-04-01 05:35
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Frida Kahlo. I love Frida Kahlo’s work and Em has a real interest in Frida; I even stitc… Read More
2021-03-29 05:56
Another month has ticked by and another month to appraise where we are up to and what our next plans are. Longer Projects Our main project during April will be our Ancient Greece project. We… Read More
2021-03-27 11:52
A few weeks ago it was World Book Day and we had a really fun day. We did a few bits and pieces in the lead up to the day but on the day itself, we had a Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Th… Read More
2021-03-26 06:30
Ad I’ll admit early on, I don’t enjoy decorating. I like my house to be functional and to look lived in. I really don’t understand the chopping and changing of furniture an… Read More
2021-03-19 16:36
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Keith Haring. Why Keith Haring? I am not sure why I chose Keith Haring – prior to runnin… Read More
2021-03-15 06:30
Ad – Gifted Item I was contacted by Tales by Mail to see if I would like to review their box. We received the box and this is our review. I haven’t received additional payment an… Read More
2021-03-13 13:39
A few weeks back I saw something pop up on Facebook about the Canal and River Trust and their children’s section of the website. I had a look around and there is so much on there that… Read More
2021-03-11 14:34
I know this is a little overdue(!) but life got in the way and I figured this would be ‘evergreen’ content so there would be value in sharing for future years. I’ve been mi… Read More
2021-03-09 06:23
Ad – contains some gifted items and affiliate links We did a lovely Everest study a few weeks ago (well probably a couple of months now!) and we had some fabulous books to support this… Read More
2021-03-06 11:26
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Rene Magritte. Why Rene Magritte? We had studied a lot of pop artists in the first few artists… Read More
2021-03-03 06:26
As I wrote in my February plan, I had planned a Vikings study with the children, however for one reason and another that didn’t happen and I switched our history topic to the Stone Age… Read More
2021-03-02 06:13
February seems to have flown by in a whirr! I’m not sure I feel it was as productive as I might have liked; we certainly all had a bout of lockdown fatigue this month, but we have mana… Read More
2021-03-01 06:29
Another month has ticked by and another month to appraise where we are up to and what our next plans are. Longer Projects I ended up switching our planned Vikings project to a Stone Age proj… Read More
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