Living Arrows is a weekly bloggers link up kindly hosted by Donna at ‘What the Redhead Said’    “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran Its been a very busy week! Solo parenting with several days out planned and a house to keep running is not for the faint hearted. I think maybe I kept them…

It’s been a little while since we updated our what we are reading corner of the blog.  Despite the written silence we have in fact been very busy reading a selection of books.  This year we are sticking with the same book review format of Finlay and Daisy who are now 13 and 10 reviewing their own reading books.  To me this is the best…

We have finally finished for Easter and I breathed a sigh of relief for a break from the morning rush around. This week was an important week for Teddy at school, he won the Principal’s award for having consistently good behaviour. This meant he went to cook school to help make afternoon tea and then got to eat said afternoon tea with the Principal and…

*We were gifted family Circus tickets for Paulos Circus  2019 in exchange for an honest and open review of our experience.* Who needs to stay at home and watch Britain’s got talent when you have Paulos Circus in town!  We haven’t been to the circus for years and so we weren’t very sure what to expect when we were kindly offered tickets in York. I…

On Sunday we were kindly invited as a Mummy blogger by Avocado Events to Bump&Baby Expo held at York Racecourse, to raise awareness of local services and businesses.…

Living Arrows is a weekly bloggers link up kindly hosted by Donna at ‘What the Redhead Said’   Living Arrows “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran…

  Here are at least 10 of our favourite spots to visit or places we would like to visit in Yorkshire this Easter holiday. A lot of the places have Easter themed activities to keep the kids busy.…

To kick off April in true spring style, it’s all about Spring cleaning!…

This month’s meal plan is a mixture of indulgent Easter recipes for the holidays mixed with a balance of  healthy lighter meals for Spring and some salad inspiration for eating with kids.   All these recipes can be found on my Easter recipe Pinterest board or on my monthly April Meal Planning Pinterest board.…