Posts about our family life, you’ll get to know more about us by reading our ‘Scrapbook Loves’, Everyday Us, Sunday Scrapbook and other posts. Family posts cover all the topics that don’t really fit anywhere else!
A little while ago I wrote about Leetchi – the easy way to collect and raise money. One of the ways you can collect money with Leetchi is for collecting money for charity, which is exactly what Lucy Watson is doing. I’m a lapsed Made in Chelsea watcher and have missed too many seasons to… Read More
February has been pretty good for us as a family. We spent the last week together up in Norfolk staying with Sam’s mum and it was so nice to be away from the normal daily grind of work/cleaning/cooking/preschool and so on and spend time as a family. We had fun exploring an old abandoned church… Read More
At the start of the week I had a lovely little break away with Donna, we both had a massage, a delicious dinner and a really good nights sleep at a lovely hotel called Needham House. The massage I had was the nicest I have ever had, the masseuse never broke contact throughout my back… Read More
Sam and I have been thinking about ways we can ensure a happy and hopefully prosperous future for our children. Although our income isn’t as high as it was when I was working full time in hospitality management we still know how important it is to keep some money aside for the future of Athena… Read More
Do you have adequate emergency funds to handle a sudden financial crisis? Millions of people in our country don’t. Figures released in early 2016 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that Britons are saving less now than they have in the last 50 years: we are putting an average of just 4.4 percent… Read More
This week has been non stop. Sam did a couple of ‘AFD’ shifts at work (which in hospitality speak means ‘all f*cking day’ 7am – 11pm) and stayed over too to save time driving home cutting into his sleeping time. That of course meant that I had a week of all bedtimes, which would be… Read More
Working for yourself is a tricky business, especially when you do the sort of job like blogging that is uncertain in terms of work load and income! I’m lucky in that I have another steady freelance income but I really do need the two to make any sort of living! We want to try and… Read More
Mothers often feel like they are betraying their children when they even start questioning whether to choose between the life of a stay-at-home-mom, and the working-mom life. Many will tell you that the ‘obvious’ answer would be to stay at home, and live all those moments that working mums usually miss in the lives of… Read More
Athena has really been embracing her role as ‘Sister’ over the last few weeks. Often she’ll say she has do to do something because ‘I am the sister’. When we get home she will now take off Arlo’s coat, hat and shoes and the best part is that he is so happy for her to… Read More
I wish I could say this week was jam packed with excitement but I’d be lying if I did so I won’t. It was Sam’s 29th birthday yesterday so that was a nice day, we went out for dinner together in the evening whilst my mum babysat, second time since having Arlo but the first… Read More