Winter Holidays: Teach Your Kids to Ice Skate
This beautiful frosty weather is making me long to ice skate again. I’m always envious of the skating lakes in Sweden and Austria and hope…
Family Fun In The Garden This Spring
When the weather warms up enough for us to get outside into our outdoor space, one of the first things we like to do…
Spending Time Indoors Can Be Good Too
We’re always striving to make sure our kids are having the most balanced lives they can, often encouraging them to get outdoors more. However, sometimes…
Swimming into the New Year
As a family we love to go swimming but have really slipped out of our swimming habits in recent years. When the three older kids…
Aunty Jo Jo’s Birthday
We celebrated my big sister, Jo, Aunty Jo-Jo’s birthday at the weekend with a big takeaway (a mixture of Indian and Chinese dishes) and of…
“Great” Nanny Critten’s 90th Birthday Party
This weekend we got together with family and celebrated Dave’s Nan (and our kids Great Nanny Critten!)’s 90th birthday. My kids have been so lucky…
National Hug Day: Facts About Hugs and The Ten Most …
Today is National Hug Day! I can honestly say that before I had kids, I wasn’t really a hugger (well I was more of a…
So this is Christmas, 2016
Hello and welcome back after Christmas (didn’t that time fly?). Before we move into the New Year I wanted to share some of our Christmas…
