EASTER HUNT 2012
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Another new tradition that we began this year was the “Santa’s Sleigh Scavenger Hunt”. I saw this idea on another amazing Momma’s blog and I loved it, particularly as our Little Adventurer now loves hunting for things (unless it’s something that I have asked him to look for, like his cup or a sock). Basically…
Finally, FINALLY we had good weather for a day at the pumpkin patch this year. It was a bit windy but we headed out and bumped along the path to park our car in the cornfield and head over to the patch. This was our second year at our new favourite pumpkin patch and we couldn’t…
This Christmas was hard. Excalibur had crossed the Rainbow Bridge the day before Christmas Eve leaving us all heartbroken and our plans in ruin. My parents thankfully arrived on Christmas Eve and played with the boys whilst we tried to pull ourselves together and make Christmas happen – and at 3.30a.m on Christmas morning, the…
There’s no doubt that Autumn has arrived here in the South, clad in rich jewel toned sweaters and crisp leafy trousers. The trees are more beautiful than ever, conkers are beginning to litter the mossy woodland floors and the skies are startling blue. I love all of the seasons for the activities and memories that…
Compassion is a hard thing to explain to children. When I taught other people’s children in the classroom, I knew that my actions had a big impact on them – their opinions, values, morals. They would go home and preach whatever I’d taught them about behaviour and responsibility to exasperated parents who had been saying…
On my birthday, when Jensen Indiana was only 4 weeks and one day old, my sister in law took me to a shop in Winchester where babies’ footprints were painted onto items of crockery as keepsakes. Just because it seemed the thing to do, I had Jensen’s little imprints on a clock (for a particular…