Category: Parenting
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How to teach your kids how to sew….
Call in the experts My 6 year old daughter has really taken to sewing. This is definitely not something that she got from me. I can sew a button on, took home economics in high-school but would be more likely to throw something out before I mended it. The last time I tried to wind…
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How to Recycle your Christmas Cards
Simple Craft Idea for Recycling Christmas Cards I couldn’t take it anymore and have de-Christmassed my house today! I know it’s a bit early, with the 12 days of Christmas and all that! Hubby went up for a nap and when he came down he declared ‘that Christmas must be over’ as everything was down…
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How to avoid the dreaded Motorway Services
How to find a decent place to eat when on a road trip in the UK I have a deep hatred of UK Services on the motorways. Please don’t take this personally, but I vividly remember experiencing my first UK Motorway services about 14 years ago; after badly navigating the one way system almost exiting…
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Breakfast with Father Christmas
An intimate audience with Father Christmas ‘Mummy, that wasn’t the real Santa as he had green eyes and the real Santa has blue eyes’ This was the second year in a row that we’ve been rumbled. Last year, it was a dishevelled beard that gave it away. However, she was happy with the explanation that…
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Christmas Eve Box! A new tradition???
Love it or hate it? About a month ago I saw someone post a photo for a Christmas Eve Box and I was taken with it and had never heard of it. It’s basically a present that the kid’s can open on Christmas Eve, to get them into the spirit, typically with PJ’s, Hot chocolate,…