Listography: Top 5 Christmas Songs
Ooh, when I saw this week’s topic, it made me smile. I love Christmas songs, the old, the traditional, and many of the new ones. I just makes me warm inside. So here are my top 5 (in no particular…
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Top tip timesaver – John Frieda Frizzease 3 day straight
*Ad – contains affiliate links I’ve been thinking for ages about trying the John Frieda 3 day straight product but wasn’t too sure given a) the price and b) it says for curly hair. Mine just has a bit of a kink…
Listography: Cartoon characters from your youth
This listography is proving quite hard for me to decide on. Kate’s original post here includes 5 cartoon characters already from my youth, so I’m going to try and think of some different ones. Here they are. 5 cartoon characters…
Keeping in touch days
I’m officially off maternity leave now (as of yesterday)…so getting paid again (yippee!) as I’m now on annual leave until I start back in January. I’ve been doing a few keeping in touch days which are a great idea –…
Money for nothing (and the cheque’s for free)
I’m a big fan of vouchers, coupons, discounts…any bargain really. I reckon I inherited the gene from my Nan on my Dad’s side. And in this day and age it seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Obviously you can…
Encouraging babies to enjoy books
Oooh, I found this test your vocab to test the size of your vocabulary. Ok, so it’s nothing to do with children (well, if you have kids, you can test theirs as well which will help with the researchers), but…
Photo queuing
I love getting proper professional photos taken of my baby. Of course I take loads of my own photos, but you can never get a nice background (unless you want to set the place up properly). It’s lovely to have…
Baby separation anxiety at swimming
One of the groups we decided to do was swimming. I’m really keen that N will enjoy being in the water, not be scared of it and be a good swimmer at an early age. I quite enjoy swimming although…
Love those (nearly) new toys
Yesterday was the first local NCT nearly new toy sale. It was different to the usual sales in that it was a table top one, just selling toys/games/books, so people booked a table and sold their own stuff. I wasn’t…
Could it be Magic…land? Magicland soft play
It always used to be easy to meet up with friends and babies when they were tiny. They slept or fed but generally would stay in their prams out of the way while we conversed, drank coffee and ate cake…
Listography: Top 5 Randoms
This week’s listography from KateTakes5 is top 5 random things I like. They have to be explicit, and not generic (eg I like chocolate is not unusual for most people!). I can think of lots of things I don’t like, but…