Most people enjoy doing what they can to decorate and maintain their home. Many homeowners regularly take on tasks like wallpapering, tiling, laying new floors and painting, but when it comes to big projects; many people simply pick up the phone, and call a professional. This is understandable, but is not always necessary. Take for example, the task of installing a new bathroom. Many homeowners are pleasantly surprised to learn that they have the necessary skills to be able to handle this major project themselves. At least if they buy good quality materials from somewhere like Better Bathrooms, and follow…
January is all about planning and looking ahead at what the year will bring us. What do I want 2017 to bring me? Fun time with my family is always top of the list and this year I want us to take our first trip abroad all together. I’ve been abroad with Maisy and Bella before Lottie was born but little Lottie has never been on a plane! For two reasons; first being as a single parent the thought of me and three children in another country is quite scary. Secondly is the cost, it is so expensive to travel…
Lottie has turned into a little fuss pot when it comes to dinner time. She is too busy messing about making her sisters laugh and not actually getting any food in her mouth. I always enjoyed dinner time with the girls, we sit together, enjoying the meal I had cooked and have a chat but Lottie’s sudden rebellion has been making it tough. I decided to take some action to try and get our meal times back to normal by giving Lottie a little incentive to sit and eat nicely with us. Rather than the usual you wont get any…
Mum guilt is real. When a little bundle is born we drop ourselves into second/third or even forth place. It see’s us mums feeling guilty when we so much as want to take a pee in peace – it gets easier with time trust me! I’ve been thinking back to those early baby days and the things I used to feel guilty about so I thought I would share my “8 things to never feel guilty about as a new mum”. Staying in bed till noon. Baby days can be hard work, especially the early days. Newborns sleeping patterns are very unpredictable…
This weekend we pulled on our welly boots and headed over to Corfe Castle for our next National Trust adventure we needed to burn off some of that never ending energy my girls seem to have and Corfe Castle won their vote. I used to visit Corfe every year as a little girl, my grandparents always rented a cottage for a few weeks and it was lovely but I hadn’t been back for years and had yet to take the girls. From the car park there is a 10 minute walk to get up the the castle itself it’s a nice little…
