Food’s more fun with mum
Says I. N gets a real mix of food. At home (and nursery), it’s pretty much all home cooked, with home being more traditional. The OH isn’t a fan of indian or chinese, or anything other than traditional British with…
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Birthday Preparations
It’s N’s birthday tomorrow, so the last couple of days I’ve been sorting bits out. With the snow, the plans to meet up with friends at soft play isn’t going to happen so we’ll be postponing that. He’ll also have…
Meal Planning Monday – first timer (14th Jan)
I’ve vaguely spotted the Meal planning Monday link ups on twitter, but hadn’t seen any blog posts themselves, but as this year since being off work I’ve found I’ve been planning the weekly meals, I’ve decided I should join in…
Chocolate
N doesn’t really have chocolate much. Pudding of some sort every day, cake a lot more frequently that I’d ever have had as a child, and lots of fruit, but chocolate less so. It’s amazing how quickly children decide they…
Tips for photographing children
When you’re a parent, the number of photos you take seems to increase dramatically, but there’s definitely a knack to getting good photos of your children. Sometimes they can be a bit hit & miss, especially once the baby is…
We may have a problem with beef
Uh oh. For the second time this week, N has been fussy with food. Not just any food. Beef! What’s the issue, I hear you ask….he’s the son of a beef farmer. Oops. We had steak the other day, and…
New year new body
I’ve joined in with Liz’s ‘new year new body 2013‘ challenge. Having lost weight through being really disciplined before, I thought post birth it would be fairly straightforward to get back to it. Unfortunately I’d not counted on the ‘I’ve…
Cheese fiend
Toddlers obviously go through phases of liking and disliking foods. And lunch is really hard to get variety into them when you want it to be quick, and fit in with what’s easy for the rest of the family. We…
Post pregnancy care
Today I fancied taking a break so I’ve got my blog’s first guest post from Sophie. I have to admit I was very poor at doing anything specific for post-pregnancy care. With an unplanned (I don’t refer to it as…
It’s Christmas…party
Today was our NCT group’s Christmas party for this year. We decided to do morning rather than afternoon as most of the toddlers sleep after lunch which means afternoons are a nightmare for timings of getting together. We decided to…
Keepsake boxes
A keepsake box is something that’s quite often mentioned in baby magazines or when talking with friends or family members….ooh first shoes, for the keepsake box, first tooth, first outfit etc. I decided to have a vague keepsake box but…
