Catching up with good friends at Kiddicare Enfield

Driving around a few months back it was impossible not to see this (above pic) in my local area, the telltale sign that something exciting was coming to Enfield. Never one to be behind on exciting...

Lovely Lentils Recipe - Come Wean With Me

As you know I'm weaning Harry at the moment, he is doing fantastically and eats whatever is given to him. We have been working through the process together with the help of Annabel Karmel, when...

HABA 75th Anniversary Review - Penguin Squirter

To help celebrate Haba's 75th Anniversary, 75 bloggers have been given a selection of toys each to review. I am lucky enough to be one of those 75, and this post marks the first of three posts...

Getting Wiggy with it!

Me and Emmy love to dress up together, so we’ll take any opportunity to do it for a good cause. I was looking at some new fancy dress costumes and I came across this post about Wig Wednesday on...

Bigjigs Play Patrol - Play Agents at the ready! - Review

The postman came a calling with an exciting parcel for my Bigjigs Play Patrol Agents Emmy and Harry. What arrived? I will let you see for yourselves as well as Emmy reaction: As you can see Emmy...

Sponsored Video: Aptamil Growing Up Milk

Water Babies - Baby swimming lessons, week 1

I started taking Emmy swimming from around the age of 8-9 weeks old. We joke that at night-time she turns into a Mermaid as she is so at home in the water - our little water baby. I had always...

Fresh Express Max - Review

It doesn't happen very often that's for sure however I've found a kitchen gadget which makes me want to cook just to use it! I have been hunting out recipes which I can try which require chopping,...

A good old fashioned debate - To Pre-school or not to Pre-school?

Emmy LOVES pre-school, she has been attending for a while now. She was 3 in February so now recieves her 15 hours of government funding. Now being only just 3 I have NO intention of sending her to...

Getting ready for a camping adventure - review

I DON'T do camping! I've tried camping in the back garden however I'm claustrophobic and after a few hours I had to come back inside to sleep in my own bed. I also like my creature comforts far too...

Guest Post: Why pretend play is important for your child's development

Every child loves pretending, they do it throughout most of their early years and it is something that we carry through into adulthood; though instead of acting out our ambitions, we indulge...

Chocolate and Beetroot Cupcakes

For Freshweek we have been trying out some new recipes, at the weekend we made chocolate and beetroot cupcakes. I have only ever eaten Beetroot in salads before so was unsure of this recipe -...

Personalised trinket box - Review

We have recently been to a fantastic wedding, a very good friend of mine and Emmy's Godmother. While searching for wedding gift ideas I was thinking back to my own wedding and fondly remembering...

Getting personalised - Review

We have a few babies due in the family in the next few months - we are very excited that Paul's brother and his wife are due next month and we have friends who are due soon too. When buying...

Fresh Week - Meal Planning & Pizza Recipe

Today marks the start of Tefal's Fresh Week - A week of banishing the convenience foods and cooking fresh meals from scratch. To make things easier for myself I have planned our meals for this...

Matilda Mae Memorial Auction - Please help

As you will know, very sadly on 2nd February a very beautiful 9 month old went to sleep and heartbreakingly grew her angel wings that very night. Matilda Mae, the daughter of fellow blogger Jennie...

Planning ahead to the Summer Holidays

As a former Nanny, as soon as one holiday is over then I start planning for the next one, this hasn't changed now I'm no longer working and am a Mum. In fact I may plan more these days as money is...

Upcycling project - From old top of mine to a dress for Emmy

Clearing through my wardrobe recently I found one of my old going out tops from my teenage slim years, a low cut top with a see-through body. Now even if I ever lost enough weight to fit into it...

Fresh Week - Making my pledge with Tefal. Your chance to pledge and win

I've already told you that I'm a Tefal Innovation Panelist - if you don't remember what that means you can catch up here. I also told you that I would be telling you about Fresh Week, well this is...

Come Wean With Me - First stage weaning #1 First tastes - Fruits

This post has taken a while to write, I planned to add new recipes as and when we tried them - however life got in the way and time past too quickly. We are now onto our second stage of weaning and...

Gummee Glove review

The telltale signs of teething are here....red cheeks, grumpy, horrid nappies and chewing everything including his hands. I remember this stage with Emmy lasted ages, she started showing signs from...

Weaning off the breast - bottles, trial and error!

Now Harry is 6.5 months old I'm at the stage of wanting to wean him off the breast and onto bottles, I had planned to have done this before the hen weekend however Harry had other ideas. He does...

Not your typical bank holiday - wedding, beach, farm and fun

It's not often you can say it's been a lovely sunny bank holiday, thankfully it has been. Our weekend started badly with the car breaking down for the 3rd time in a week, thankfully a 7am text to...

The best tools make the job so easy - Tefal Innovation Panel

Ironing to me means the most boring way to spend an afternoon or evening and quite frankly I would rather watch paint dry! I've a self professed loathing of ironing which results in me sending what...

Trying not to over pack again

This weekend we are heading to Cornwall for a very good friends wedding, we leave tomorrow morning and head home on Sunday. Our last holiday was to Butlins on a Monday to Friday break and saw our...

Bedtime routine and throwing my toys out of the cot - again

Bedtime routine in this house is the same - I do bath time alone with the kids, I find it easiest to get into the bath with them so at least that's one less job to do - all in pj's by 6.30pm. After...

Clothes to suit any style from Zalando

I'll be honest when I first had an email through asking if I would like to review some clothing from Zalando I had to click through to their site as I had never heard of them. Fast forward a few...

I've a very excited girlie - I only said 1 word - Lollibops!!

No I've not spelt Lollipops wrong, I do actually mean Lollibops! That needs no explanation for Emmy - I mention that word and she goes loopy, ecstatically happy and starts dancing. Lollibops is...

A Nutty challenge

A short while ago I was asked if I was up to a Nutty challenge - never one to turn down a challenge of any kind I accepted. The challenge was to eat a portion of Almonds every day for 21 days -...

The 3foot People Festival Returns - and is set to be bigger than ever!

Why should all the big kids have all the fun? The 3ft People Festival is all about bringing the fun to Pre-school aged children. This will be running for 4 days in July in Chelmsford and is an...