“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. We’ve been fortunate that the weather has been so kind for the majority of lockdown. It was a great motivation for all of us to get homeschool finished so we can enjoy the sunny afternoons in the garden this week. The paddling pool has been even more of a…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. We had a lovely busy week spending more time outdoors working on garden projects and enjoying longer walks. This week we ended up relaxing homeschool even more. We had most of Wednesday and Friday off. Partly because they had worked hard on the other days to get more ticked…

I’m more of a Pinterest Mummy as I’m in the UK but the Pinterest Mom seems to be the recognised term. This is probably not what you’re expecting to read as most Pinterest Mom posts are about how ‘not to be a Pinterest Mom with jokes and shaming seemingly fairly abundant! I have decided to write this post as I’m a little fed up of…

Whilst my 3 year old was busy painting a caterpillar it occurred to me that we’ve done a few caterpillar themed activities now, so definitely time for me to share a round up post of The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities for early years. These activities are aimed at older babies, toddlers and preschoolers, however early years primary aged children will also enjoy taking part in…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. With a week of better weather our spirits were lifted! this was helped by plenty of VE day activities set by school and our neighbourhood which all came together to enjoy the VE Day celebrations whilst still adhering to lockdown rules. On Thursday after getting through some of the…

Hello again! I have previously written about what we have learnt during lockdown and now I’m returning after being tagged by Hannah and the Twiglets to share my own Covid-19 lockdown silver linings. This post is what it says; it’s the positives that have come about for us during lockdown. It goes without saying that I wish it hadn’t taken a global pandemic for us…