Twelve weeks on the Sugar Smart programme with Kallikids. Are we now a sugar smart family? Well, we’re certainly sugar smart-er! Well, it was week 11 which called for our reflection. How have we managed? What have we learned? Let me summarise what we have done as part of the programme, in order to help […]
Family Stuff
Mum’s family time and activities
Escape To The Country
It still feels like a dream, or at least like we’re on holiday. This can’t be real, can it? Are we really allowed to stay here? I hope so, because the van has unloaded all of our things! The boys certainly hope so too!!
Suggestions For Becoming A Sugar Smart Family
Our Sugar Smart Challenge for week 4 is to gather as many suggestions as possible from everyone we can, to compile ideas for being sugar smart as a family. (weeks 1, 2 & 3 are here) I asked my friends in the blogging community, who always have some great advice: Katie from Living Life Our […]
15 Family-Safe Pranks For April Fool’s Day
Are any pranks safe for April Fool’s Day? I’ve had to have a conversation recently with my kids about jokes sometimes being dangerous or hurtful (especially following them watching some YouTube videos). Yesterday, Toby put hand wash on his brother’s toothbrush! Luckily, the liquid soap was bright red, so suspicions were aroused immediately! What a […]
Sugar Smart Challenge Week 3 – Product Swaps
Our Sugar Smart challenge reached week 3! (Week 1 and week 2 are here if you want to catch up). This week, we had to buy five low-sugar products that we hadn’t tried before. Of course we had been spoiled with the great products we had been given in the hamper from Kallikids already, but there […]
Happy Mother’s Day!
It’s Mother’s Day, and this is what it’s all about for me – these two! They are my everything. This is what I am. Their Mum. Oh, and wife to the lovely Mr, of course!! My little family are my life. I’d move Heaven and Earth for them. They drive me crazy, of course, but […]
Shaggy Dog Story – My Sunday Photo
Today I’m sharing a photo of Daphne, our miniature labradoodle, just because she really amuses me with the way she sits with her paws crossed! Also she’s so shaggy and desperate for a haircut! !
Mum Interview With Emma and Family – Oh My Blog!
Oh My Blog is a monthly interview series, where fellow bloggers come together to answer a series of questions on a specific theme. This is a chance to get acquainted with a whole range of bloggers, some of whom you may not have heard of before, and learn a little more about them! This month, […]
Can We Be Sugar Smart? Our First Week Of The Project
We have been chosen as one of eight families taking part in a Sugar Smart challenge with Kallikids. We have no idea what we are in for!! Sugar Smart is a project associated with the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation and Sustain – the alliance for better food and farming, to raise awareness of the amount […]
Why I Don’t Like Valentine’s Day (it’s not what you think!)
No, I don’t really like Valentine’s Day. I’ve waited until today to share this revelation however, as I didn’t ‘t want to spoil it for all you lovers out there! There is some romance in this old soul! Nope, the reason is not because I’m single or feeling unloved. It isn’t because I hate slushy […]