Day one – Tuesday 01/09/13 Naptime. Using unopened bottles of Ribena as dumbbells and after downing two cocodamol to numb the pain of a dodgy tooth, I knuckled down to my first day of Level 1 of ‘the Shred’. I can’t do the full amount of easy push ups and God help me with the bicycle crunches!!… Read More
The DGJ Organics range of organic haircare products were originally developed by a celebrity hairdresser Daniel Galvin Junior (hence the DGJ…) 10 years ago, when there were no other organic hair products on the market. DGJ Organics have a special kids range in which we were asked to review the Kids Top to Toe 3-in-1 Conditioning Shampoo… Read More
i started to realise something was seriously wrong when i thought i was going to drop my 4 month old baby over the landing banister and down the stairs. accidentally. let me give you some background… we had just bought our first house and moved in on my due date. thankfully, O didn’t make an… Read More
Today is 1st October 2013. A couple of friends via the twitter medium, @mammalewis and @xkatiepetersx, said they were partaking in #shredtober. “What is this ‘Shredtober’?” I hear you ask. Well, let me tell you. Some lovely tweeters started the hashtag #shredtober a couple of weeks ago. Seemingly, October is the month to raise awareness… Read More
O is 2 years old and naps for 2 hours each day. he wakes on his own and is in a brilliant mood when he’s done napping. he shouts over the monitor for me to get him from his cot and we spend the afternoon giggling and playing. another bonus is that i get two… Read More
the 19th september 2013 saw the launch of the new DC Super Friends magazine created for pre-school boys aged between 2 and 5 years old. as you may be aware, O turned 2 at the beginning of august so he is at the younger end of this age range.O helped me to tear open the… Read More
We’re now into autumn and I have started to plan our third Christmas as a family of three. O will be at that awkward age of 2 years and almost 5 months old on Christmas day this year. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find age appropriate toys and games for him, without them being… Read More
Great British Bake Offwe love you sowith your buns and your cakesand your well-proven doughSir Paul of Hollywoodwith your goatee, two tonethe king of all bakersworthy of your throneLady M. Berrywe wish you were our granwe’d never go hungryindulging your frangipaneThen we come to our jestersyoung Sue and Melour favourite odd couplewhom in love we… Read More
with Hallowe’en fast-approaching, it got me thinking about what Hallowe’en traditions we would like to pass on to O. i have some awesome memories of Hallowe’en growing up. my dad would carve Jack O’ Lanterns from swedes. my brother & i dressing up as ghouls, witches or vampires, using clothes we already had, face paints… Read More
**warning – this post contains scenes of a distressing nature. if you are easily offended or upset, please close your browser now** this normal Monday, I put O down for his after lunch nap at 12pm. 12:15 came and he was still not sleeping… this is unlike O, but we’ll go with it and give… Read More
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