Last Sunday we spent the day in Hastings being tourists! We hadn’t had a family day out a while and Hastings is about an hour drive from us, long enough to not go very often but not so far that the journey is unbearable with two children! Hastings is a seaside town in East Sussex and is the heart of 1066…
There are two items to showcase for this week’s ‘What the Toddler Wore’ and they’re both from Little Sunflowers an online children’s clothing website. First up is a lovely Super Twirly Lily & Sid dress. Now I don’t normally choose pink things for Athena but this isn’t too OTT pink and she loved it when we were looking through the website so…
When The Manduca baby carrier dropped onto the door mat (okay, it didn’t it arrived in a nice box and was handed over by a courier!) I was about 38 weeks pregnant, but that didn’t stop me from trying it out with Athena before her brother arrived! After all, I wanted to test out the claims that it can…
I feel like I need four (or even five) more hours in every day. I feel like my to do list has no end I feel like my house is a hovel because I can’t find time to clean I feel like blogging is a chore I feel like I’m never going to get to the bottom of my email…
I like a lot of light in a room, and hate to sit and watch a film in the dark. Sam however prefers to watch things in almost pitch black! Now the nights are getting darker earlier again (hurrah!) we’re fighting over whether we have the main light on or off! I’m already well ahead with the old ‘how…
Well swipe me down with a feather, Arlo is four months old! He’s changed a lot physically over the last month, mostly in size as he’s now a chunky 18lbs (well, this is calculated by standing on the scales with and without him) but he’s rapidly growing out of 3-6 month clothes already and as I type is snuggled up…
A very short one this week, I’ve got a baby in the middle of leap four (The Wonder Weeks if you’ve no idea what I’m on about) and we’re house hunting like crazy people so here is an outfit Arlo wore this week: Eagle T shirt from Baby K at Mothercare and Burgundy joggers from Zara with little triangles…
A couple of weekends ago we went for an underwater photo shoot as part of our term with Waterbabies (you can read about our experience so far here) so that we could have a few photos taken of Arlo looking incredibly cute underwater! I thought I’d write about the experience so anyone contemplating it knows what to expect! Our shoot…
I wrote in this post about the future of my blog that I wanted to write more about our parenting style so here goes! When I got pregnant for the first time I was given a whole bunch of books from various people and one of them detailed a daily schedule, almost to the minute (something about being contented, I’m…
As I said in yesterday’s post I’m feeling a bit ‘blah’. I think it’s partly because of the whole house hunt thing and partly because the only ‘me time’ I’ve had since before Arlo arrived is a half hour trip to do the food shop two weeks ago! I need a day (nay, two days!) away in a spa with…
I’m feeling a bit blah today and don’t have the energy to write a full recap post of the last week but in a nutshell: Sam’s dad came to stay for a couple of days We went to a friends wedding reception on Brighton Beach. They’d hired a We viewed three properties, 2 were lovely one was super scummy. I…
You might have noticed a influx of home decor posts recently and that’s because we’re full throttle plowing on with viewings to try and buy something as soon as possible, partly because the prices are still going up and partly because the sooner we’re not renting the better. Owning our own home means we can put up hooks and…