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Grampy melt down

ByEmma March 8, 2023

N is definitely a Grampy’s boy. Ok, so he loves the rest of his family too – cousins, Gran, Grandma, aunts, uncles, but it’s always Grampy he wants to see. Now we have a melt down (or as close as…

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Obviously I need to sort out a new job first, but come August, N’s childcare will be changing as youngest nephew will be starting school so his two days a week there will stop. So decisions will need to be…

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Big kids soft play

ByEmma March 30, 2024

Today we joined one of N’s friends at a soft play place in town for her 2nd birthday. N’s never really that fussed about soft play. He tends to head straight for the things he has at home or are…

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Review of 2012 and forward to 2013

ByEmma June 21, 2018

Ok, so I got a bit waylaid yesterday in doing my 2012 review as we had a longer than planned car shopping/research session (boy, are some car salesman totally missing working out what a customer is actually asking!), a cheesecake…

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Laid back mums

ByEmma December 29, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk recently about different types of mums and their impact on their children as they grow up. I’d read an article in the latest Mother & Baby magazine about laid back mums having more independent…

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Christmas came, it saw, it went

ByEmma April 10, 2016

The run up seems so long for Christmas (then of course it gets closed and seems to then rush by), and then it’s over in a day. If you’re lucky, you manage to drag it out a bit further. The…

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Christingle traditions

ByEmma December 23, 2012

Today we went to one of the local Christingle services. I was a little worried as I wasn’t sure how N would behave in the church having not been in one since he was christened. I was hoping he’d enjoy…

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The Christmas tree is finally up

ByEmma December 21, 2012

Whoop. Very exciting. Finally our Christmas tree has been brought down from the roof; I spend yesterday evening putting it up and decorating it. I have a purple and silver theme and have bought new items over the years. I…

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Christmas day at home

ByEmma December 17, 2012

So with only a week to go, I finally managed to find out that we are having Christmas at home. Now, we are always at the farm or around just because the men need to do the feeding in the…

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Christmas tag

ByEmma January 1, 2017

I spotted this tag on another blog (Something about Sofia) and thought I’d take part, because how can you not take part in a Christmas tag? Q. What’s your favourite Christmas movie? The Snowman is the film I just can’t…

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Staying away

ByEmma December 11, 2012

Last week I had a couple of days out of the office and away from home on a European departmental work conference. It was meant to be 2 overnights in Barcelona but was changed to be local to our work. …

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