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Archive for April 2017

Are 3 kids easier than 1? The food example

All that hard effort in the kitchen is definitely more worthwhile when you have 3 kids: they can’t all be picky about the same thing can they?! (Very rarely yes 🙁 , but let’s brush over that!)

Pride comes before a fall (not so happy Easter Monday 17th April)

This is not the post I wanted or planned to be writing. I was all excited and planned to do some celebratory gloating. But I can’t 🙁 You see, I was going to write and film me enjoying Aldi‘s Chocies Easter egg. I have not eaten Smarties in years because they have wheat in them […]

My Sunday Photo: the battle to get a family pic

OK so we want a nice photo of us all. Sounds simple, right?! Alas it wasn’t… Time to swap around a bit, see if that improves things… Oh great, Zach has grabbed my glasses Matthew and Anya lost interest 🙁 but we managed to get one of just the three of us all smiling  

Zach’s first birthday!

We were spoilt with the weather last weekend for TWO parties! We wanted to share Zach’s big day with as many people as possible, and so we welcomed friends and family to our home (panic housework required!. Birthday boy had an amazing time and was full of smiles as always 🙂 Birthday boy! #family #stillmybaby […]

Visit to Waverley Abbey ruins

After our trip to Farnham Castle, we headed off to another free English Heritage site nearby: the ruins of Waverley Abbey, England’s first Cistercian monastery. The ruins were spectacular and beautiful. Sadly they were also completely spoilt by ineffective, ignorant, idiotic parents who were letting their children climb on everything, endangering themselves and our heritage. […]