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Time for Truth – Starting With My Kids

Posted on March 15, 2018by Familymakes

I know I have a Pollyanna attitude, I’ve mentioned it before. I always try to look on the bright side, and within our blog in particular, I tend to show the shiny, positive things – lovely days out and holidays with the kids, us doing crafts together etc. But I feel there is room for […]

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Tried and Tested Tips For Road Trips With Kids

Posted on June 26, 2017March 15, 2018by Familymakes
Make your road trip more pleasant with these tried and tested tips

OK, strictly speaking, we should be absolute experts on entertaining kids in cars on a road trip. When ours were babies, we lived in the North of Scotland and regularly made a 5-6 hour journey to visit my family. As they got older, we started driving to France on holiday from the North East of […]

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Keep Calm and Carry on Crafting!

Posted on April 27, 2017April 28, 2017by Familymakes
Complete Colouring And Sketch Studio With Field Sketch Book

Crafts have long been my thing, but as my kids are getting older, it is becoming harder to find the type of crafts which they want to get involved in too. Perhaps it’s because they are boys, and many of the crafts I enjoy don’t appeal to them anymore. We therefore have to choose our joint […]

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Tucking In! – My Sunday Photo

Posted on March 11, 2017May 9, 2017by Familymakes
Toby enjoying his chicken curry with chickpea pop pops for added taste!

My boys certainly enjoy their food!

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Things to Do With Kids on New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 29, 2016June 13, 2018by Familymakes
New Year's Eve Happy New Year Champagne and Streamers

Do you let your children stay up to see in the New Year on New Year’s Eve? We don’t usually, but the boys are getting a little older now, so if they can manage it, I think we might let them stay awake. Otherwise, it’s just the two of us plus Jules Holland, and Cal […]

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Half Term Bucket List From A Kids’ Perspective – What They Really Want To Do

Posted on October 23, 2016December 4, 2017by Familymakes
Pumpkins for Autumn Half Term Halloween

Half term is here, and I’m trying to be a good Mum and making a list of things we should do together to fill our time. I’m mindful of packing in travel, outdoor activities, nature, crafts and of course lots to do with Halloween. Then I stopped and thought – what do the children actually […]

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Little Loves #5 – Proud

Posted on October 21, 2016October 24, 2016by Familymakes
Harvest festival offerings

#LITTLELOVES They say pride comes before a fall, but I think being a proud Mum is perhaps excusable?  My kids have made me very proud for various reasons recently, so that’s what I’m sharing today. READ Hugo finally finished his school reading book ‘Moby Dick’ this week. He has really enjoyed reading it, and afterwards, […]

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A Marche Against Time!

Posted on August 20, 2016March 15, 2018by Familymakes
Marche French Market Advert

We saw this great advert for a Marche in France made out of hay bales. My son thought it was particularly good as the event had already passed, so his theory was that “Anyone who sees this photo will think we’ve travelled back in time!” Errrrrm, yes. Think I get what you mean there!! Enjoy […]

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Why Dens Are Still Cool- Come build a den with us!

Posted on August 20, 2016February 20, 2018by Familymakes
Dens in the trees

Our boys are getting older, and it seems like each day there is something else they used to enjoy, which is now no longer cool. Thankfully, building dens is not yet one of them! This summer, my boys teamed up with children from a few other families staying with us at Chataigne, and they all […]

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From the Mouths of Mums

Posted on August 1, 2016August 3, 2016by Familymakes
Dog ate my fish Mum!

I have always enjoyed linking up with Louise at Little Hearts, Big Love for her ‘From the Mouths of Babes’ linky about the funny things kids say. I’m really bad, however, at remembering some of the things my kids say for long enough to make a blog post about them!   This week though, I turned […]

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