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When you’ve got two Valentine boys, two years apart, and a nineteen month at home, you know Valentine’s Day isn’t going to be a hearts and flowers, dinner and dancing until the small hours affair. No pretty dresses, no make up and exquisite restaurant food – it’s a jeans and t-shirt, making chocolate and…
Pre-parenthood, Sunday mornings were textbook easy. Sure, we had to let the huskies out in the the garden and eventually take them for a walk, but they really didn’t care if we read newspapers in bed, drank cups of tea and took our good old time in getting up. Now, there’s no tea in bed…
![BREAKFAST WITH DINOSAURS: A MORNING WITH FLORA [#POWEREDBYPLANTS]](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Flora001.jpg)
Are you one of those parents who will disguise vegetables in their child’s food to get them to eat something healthy? Do you find yourself saying “just one bite” or “eat it and then you can have…”? Well, you’re not alone…and I’ve taken it to a new low. After buying a carrot and apple smoothie…
![[CHATTY]PILLOW FIGHT!](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/pillows004.jpg)
I suppose it’s only fair – or karma, if you believe in it – that as I remember so vividly destroying my parents’ neatly made bed in order to create a fantastic mattress slide, my own boys are determined I will never sleep on an uncrumpled sheet ever again. This weekend as I tried in…
![TAKE ME BACK [PARKDEAN HOLIDAYS]](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_3884.jpg)
Cross-legged on the floor, rifling through my parents’ huge box of photographs I began to wonder. There are hundreds of sepia, black and white and polaroid photographs of around a decade and a half of holiday memories. Memories made here in England, on our green and pleasant land. Windbreaks and wellyboots, camping or caravanning, we…
![THE CHRISTMAS DINNER EXPERIMENT [OVEN PRIDE]](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ovenpridedinner003.jpg)
The biggest and most highly anticipated meal of the year in our household is without a doubt the superbly indulgent Christmas dinner. Normally cooked by my husband, last year I took up the challenge and decided I would become the yuletide chef and create our celebratory feast from then onwards. Our oven will be one…