California Dreaming

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we are planning to take a fun family road trip next summer.  We want to go to California and our itinerary is starting to take shape. The Husband and I took a road trip around California the year before we started our family and absolutely loved it, …

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Happy 14th Birthday, Boo

Today sees my beautiful firstborn turn 14. How?!  My girl seems to grow up more every month these days, I’m just happy that she still wants to spend time with me and shares so much with me. It’s fun having a teenager. She’s now in Year 9 at school, and she’s settled in well to …

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Road Trip Essential Tips

We’ve been talking about road trips in our house recently. My daughter and I have one coming up and then we’re looking at planning a memorable family road trip next summer. As such, we’ve been considering our road trip essentials and here’s what we’ve come up with. Know Your Road Trippers This one is the …

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Book Readalong October 2023

Welcome to this month’s book readalong. As you know, I absolutely love the book readalong, it’s always one of my favourite #BringBackPaper activities.  If you’ve yet to join in with one of these readalongs, let me tell you a little more about it and tempt you to join us. The book readalong is an easy …

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That Was Our Summer

And just like that, the kids are back to school and that was our summer. They’re both back now, my boy in Year 6 his last year at primary school, and my daughter into Year 9. We’ve got a meeting at her school this week covering GCSE options, no easing us in on this! To …

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Little Man Is 11!

Today sees us celebrating a birthday here as Little Man is 11! He’ll be starting his last year of primary school in a few days time and I look at him and see how much he’s grown up over the past few years. When he started school he was very shy and reluctant to join …

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