Words for Wednesday…


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This is a collaboration with Swizzels. My boys [including Gav] LOVE Swizzels sweets – they were part of my childhood and everyone I know has a favourite. Mine are Rainbow Drops, Gav is Drumsticks, Jens is Squashies…even my Mom is Parma Violets [ick], you get the idea. We’re also huge fans of Charlie and the Chocolate…
He might be three, but he’s still my baby…
This shop has been compensated by #CollectiveBias, Inc. and its advertiser Burt’s Bees. All opinions are my own alone. There are cat people, there are dog people; there are coffee and tea people. Then there are indoor and outdoor people. Dog, tea….outdoors. That’s me. And I’m in good company… Burt, co-founder of Burt’s Bees who…
“Nothing.” is not the inspirational answer I hope for each time I ask the mister what he would like for any special occasion…but it’s the one I get, anyway. Buying for him really makes me wish that the phrase, “it’s the thought that counts” was a reality, because if it did, the gifts he eventually…
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…
We’ve kept it under our hats (or rather, my coat) for quite a while but at last our secret is out… We’re pregnant! Our third, already very cherished, little one, due at the end of June, is an international traveller having been with us to Walt Disney World, Florida this Summer, and is treating me…