Children

Children and Body Image

17 June 2010

My beautiful girl is 7 and the questioning of her body image has already started. I started having a few ‘I’ll skip tea Mum’, ‘I won’t have a biscuit, I’m on a diet’ from her. When I questioned her gently about it she said that she wanted to be skinner – seriously she’d disappear if [...]

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Teaching Children Finance

24 March 2010

*Sponsored Post* I’m rubbish with money, I really am and it drives Paul absolutely insane. I try really hard to be good and budget but it just escapes me somehow. Although my parents were quite good at teaching me about money, in hindsight maybe they didn’t go far enough for example I never really had [...]

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Children’s Accident & Emergency

27 February 2010

Yesterday I got the call every mother dreads ‘Lily’s been hurt in a playground accident, we’re a bit worried about concussion. Can you come and pick her up’. So I went roaring down to the school in a sick panic to find my girl in the school secretary’s office trying to be brave with her [...]

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Keeping small children occupied on planes

22 June 2009

Our holiday is speeding towards us and it’s suddenly occurred to me that we have a 10 hour flight with a 6 year old and I’m a little underprepared! We’ve flown twice before with Lily and both times were ok, as long as we have plenty to do. This year I’m updating our plane pack [...]

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When it’s time to stop writing about your child

18 May 2009

You may have noticed that Violet Posy has been a little Lily free of late and here’s why. You know when they’re little and you forget that they can talk and the odd swear word pops out and next time your toddler drops something you hear a baby voice saying ‘Oh Shit!’. Well I forgot [...]

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RIP Santa

23 April 2009

Today was one of those days when I realised my girl is no longer a baby and that she’s a very observant 6 year old. Admittedly I thought I had at least one more Christmas to go. Here’s what happened this morning over a pair of socks Lily ‘Mummy is Santa real or is it [...]

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Daytrip to London

1 April 2009

Photo Credit: Stephanie’s Photostream on Flickr Yesterday was one of those bitter-sweet days. I was asked by my God-daughter to attend her son’s funeral in South London. Leland passed last week aged 9 months after a long struggle to survive, having been born at 23 weeks. I’m still heartbroken for both her and [...]

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Happy Birthday

4 March 2009

Photo Credit: rustman’s photostream on Flickr To my beautiful, clever, funny and getting taller by the day daughter. Happy 6th Birthday Lily! Love you xxxx

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Good News and Giggles

26 February 2009

My husband got a new contract – hurrah!! So we will now be able to start living again and planning our emigration to Canada. First off I need to plan a trip to Toronto and Novia Scotia so we can compare it to Vancouver. It seems only sensible considering it’s closer to the UK and [...]

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The things children write….

11 February 2009

Lily arrived home today, all proud with her school work for this term. She was so exited to show me what she’d done. So we’re sitting there reading through it together and then we get to her creative writing story about ‘Downtown Dog’ – one of her toys and suddenly I didn’t know whether to [...]

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