loopyloulaura

My very own website!!! Yikes!

Archive for April 2019

Toddler versus teenager: which is easier to cope with?!

I now have a threenager (hi Zach!) A complicated whirlwind of emotions…     I remember when Matthew was a toddler, and I had a newborn Anya, my neighbour with teenaged children came around and said she didn’t envy me as the toddler years are the hardest which REALLY surprised me. This week I have been […]

An epic battle ahead with Schleich’s Eldrador range

Schleich is a brand that my children are very familiar with due to the high quality details and the breadth of the ranges (Matthew in particular has loved their dinosaurs!) Now we have discovered an epic battle between the four worlds of Eldrador based on fire, water, stone and ice.   We were sent 4 […]

The Family Lie, by Jake Cross

Anna wakes at night to discover her daughter and husband missing. She believes they have both been taken but the police think her husband has snatched Josie. A text message seems to confirm this but Anna still isn’t convinced. Nick’s drugged body is found and when he regains consciousness he is devastated to learn of […]

#GlobalBlogging 108

Happy Easter Monday everyone and welcome to Global Blogging! Wherever you are in the world, come and join me and Heather at Shank You Very Much! You can link up any 2 posts then please comment on both host posts and the one in front of yours. Please encourage your friends to join us by […]

#Project365 2019 week 16

Day 104: Matthew has rejected dinosaurs and is now back to his first love: trains! Zach loves being able to run trains on my dad’s track too. Day 105: a day of disasters 🙁 We went to Maidenhead. Zach was sick in the car. We went in Clarks and I discovered I’d left my purse […]