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Archive for May 2020

A decade of being a mum

This week Matthew will turn 10. A whole decade of being a mum. Ten years that have been so long and so short. Here I am in May 2010, days before giving birth for the first time: So what have I learned, what words of wisdom can I impart to expectant parents and exhausted newborn […]

Home learning week 9

9 weeks at home. 45 energetic and exhausting PE with Joe sessions complete (not including my extra ones at the weekends!). Sadly we have been stuck indoors due to my hayfever so our gorgeous river and meadow walks are no more 🙁 The amount of written work being completed has dropped to an all time […]

Her Darkest Hour, by Sharon Maas

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book is set during the second World War and contains upsetting details of Nazi atrocities Alsace has been overrun by the Nazis and its occupants are being forced to adopt German names and forbidden to speak French. Her Darkest Hour is the tale of the war experiences of the Gaultier and […]

Little Whispers, by K.L. Slater

  Janey Markham and her family relocate to a new area and a more high status lifestyle after her husband gets a new job. Despite her lack of confidence, she manages to join the exclusive clique of school mums and even gets a new part time job. But something isn’t right in her marriage or […]

#StayClassyMama 83

Hello and welcome to the #StayClassyMama linky. Nearly half term and another bank holiday! Thank you for joining us as we try to maintain some normality. I am thrilled to be joined by new regular hosts, Karen from Cats, Kids, Chaos and Sophie from Mummy of a Square Peg! And we have a new badge for […]