As regular readers of this blog will know, I decided this year to homeschool Little Miss in order to help fill in some of the huge gaps in her learning. I hadn’t anticipated this would be any different from teaching…
Several years ago when it was just the two of us, we visited a Christmas Fair held at Waddesdon Manor, and fell in love with the house and grounds. So, when we started talking about where to visit with the children…
Little Miss LOVES art! In fact she loves anything artistic – colouring, drawing, painting, cutting, sticking. Anything! She can spend hours and hours creating and making, and I love it. But there are some downsides! Crayons, colouring pens and pencils all…
Just before the children came home, I read every book I possibly could on parenting. Everything about discipline, routines, development and anything in between! So when I was asked to review Tears Heal: How To Listen To Our Children by…
Somewhere in the north of England there is a little known theme park. We stumbled across it when we were visiting Telford and Ironbridge and we were delighted! We had seen a sign for it on the previous day, and…
We have recently had birthdays for both Little Miss and Little Sir, and we were delighted to be given Rosie Revere, Engineer as a present for Little Miss for her birthday. The children love new books (almost as much as…