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WE WOULD LOVE TO REPRESENT YOU! [BRITMUMS LIVE 2016]

It’s just one month away, and we’re shortlisted for the Brilliance in Blogging awards at Britmums Live 2016. It’s THE event of the year and we’ve been to quite a few and so this year we’re happy that we know the ropes, so to speak. As well as being the Party Inspiration Round-up editor on…

LIFE WITH BOYS

I’M IN THE CLUB [10]

I made it. Ten weeks in, and ten per cent of my body mass has gone. Forever [I hope]. Last night at Slimming World I crept onto the scales praying to see me drop below the next stone marker and there, three pounds lighter, my award popped onto the screen. Club Ten. I can’t actually…

CRAFTS

RAINY DAY WISHES JAR

Just as we thought the weather was getting better….today it’s pouring down and we’re indoors. Never mind that we’re homebound thanks to the never-ending bug that’s circulating every child in Hampshire it seems, we’re inside. Inside means cabin fever prone children and so today we made a little rainy day wishes jar. It’s for those…

GAMES AND TOYS

I SEE HIM ROLLIN’ [HEELYS]

Click here for our Toy Review Catalogue to read our reviews before you buy! We’ve got bikes. We’ve got scooters. We’ve got skateboards. Now – we’ve got Heelys. I am in the unenviable position of understanding completely how my own mom must have felt watching me wobbling and perfecting the Bambi on ice look in…

CELEBRATIONS

IT’S TEA PARTY SEASON

I like to think it’s a gene my boys have inherited from me – a love of tea parties. My mom has the fondest memories of my little backyard tea parties when I was a little girl – apparently I gave her teeny cups of fruit squash tea faster than Sue Ellen Ewing could imbibe…

LIFE WITH BOYS

40TH TIME’S A CHARM [BRACELET]

I generally dislike my own birthday. Besides the fear of the Happy Birthday song [it makes me cry and I don’t know where to look when people sing it to me] I awaited my 40th year with dread. Older, wrinklier, and feeling like my life was pretty much done opportunity wise. However, so far,…