**Collaborative post** Whenever I am asked at School what I do for a living I try to explain that I’m a Blogger and this is something I do almost full time, many times I am met with blank stares and questions of “What is that?” and “How can that be…
parenting
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Strange things to happen when eating out with kids
Heading out to eat with kids in tow can often cause headaches for us parents. There are lots of things we need to consider and careful planning is often needed when eating out with kids. We worry they won’t sit still so we pre-plan and prepare, packing colouring, small toys…
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Parenting: The Baby Years V’s The Toddler Years
As new parents we find ourselves rushing our children to progress to that next step or milestone. We clap our hands and urge them to crawl towards us, moving toys out of reach to encourage them to move. We repeat words over and over, slowly and careful waiting and willing…
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Family fun
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You know it’s summer holidays when you find yourself saying….
We have been on Summer holidays here for almost 3 weeks now. As always I posted to social media saying just how excited I was to have the kids home now for 6 whole weeks (7 in Harry’s case) and of course at the time I genuinely mean every…
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Musings
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13 reasons why – after thoughts
I recently wrote about how I was binge watching TV and about the shows I was currently watching on Netflix, well one of those shows has just finished and it’s left me feeling rather emotional to say the least. 13 Reasons Why? is a series which follows the life events…
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Blogging
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Sharing too much on social media?
When I started blogging Emmy was only 18 months old and it was an easy way to share our activities with family who are dotted all over the country and even the world. Now she is 7 and a half I have become more conscious of what I share about…
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Musings
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Binge Binge Binge
I have always had a bit of an addictive personality it’s not something I’ve really given too much thought about if I’m honest but I get stuck on an idea or even a thing and it too quickly becomes all consuming. Whether that be reading where I would start a…
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Juggling and something has to give
Growing up I always had lots of friends, never the most popular by far but getting along with everyone. I had a few circles of friends and I’d try hard to split my time equally amongst them all. A group of girl friends who I’d been best friends with since…
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A little place away from the chaos
Hello there You’ll most likely have found this quiet little haven via my other blog www.emmysmummy.com, which was coincidently started 6 years ago this week. Something started as somewhere to share daily life with my young daughter with the plan to make it into a printed book for her to read…
