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in Awareness· Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Day Poppy Activities

30 Oct

Remembrance Day is an important day to explain the significance of why we wear poppies. It’s an ideal time to do some simple crafting with the children to open up some conversation about why we remember. Here are a few ideas you could try…

in Awareness· Mummy Musings

Some Days – For No Reason

10 Oct

Mental health is something that affects us all. In good mental health or not, during the up and downs of mental health, it’s good to have the knowledge that clouds can be lifted. And that clouds grace us all to a degree. I like to see myself in relatively good mental health although once in a while I am sad too. 

9/11 We Can't Forget

in Awareness· Mummy Musings

9/11 We Can’t Forget

11 Sep

Today we remembered 9/11 with the children. It’s strange that they were yet to be thought of, let alone born when it happened but it became very much part of their lives before it began. The world as we knew it changed on 9/11, pretty much like the world as you know it changes when you have a child. They… View Post

in Awareness· Beach

This Is Not Right. It’s Rubbish. Wrong.

19 Jul

Today was such a beautiful day, the hottest of the year. We headed to the beach. What we found was utterly disgusting. Shameful and sadly absolutely not necessary.

in As They Grow· Awareness

A Note From Family Days

30 Mar

After the events of yesterday I wanted to write a post but I’m struggling to find the right words to portray my feelings, not like me I know but to be honest I don’t know what I can say. People moan about Facebook, it’s often a place for hardened opinions, opportunities to disagree and all too often a place of… View Post

in Awareness

Earth Hour Ideas

28 Mar

 Turn your lights off for an hour at 8.30pm on Saturday March 23rd! Make a den or a shelter or step outside with blankies and watch the stars!….just turn off your lights.

in Awareness· Local Exploring· Mummy Musings

The Blossom Tree

24 Mar

Today we walked to the blossom tree. We’ve seen this blossom tree bloom, shed & weather a lot. It’s outside our hospital in a beautiful park laden with squirrels adjoining.

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☺️ Really pleased at how the kitchen ceiling i ☺️ Really pleased at how the kitchen ceiling is looking! It’s been a long process insulating between the beams and putting up lining papering and cleaning down and waxing the beams but our hard work is starting to pay off and it’s looking beautiful. So many people advised us to cover the beams up as an easy measure but for us that was never going to happen, keeping the church as original as possible is our highest priority, it’s a stunning building, why change that? 
Our next job is to give the walls another coat of paint around the memorials we restored and hang the chandeliers central to the arches...then maybe we can think about building the kitchen 🙂

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🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️😷🍿🎬 We’re thr 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️😷🍿🎬 We’re throwing a ‘lockdown heroes’ treat night for the children as a reminder to them of how proud we are of them holding it together during the lock down. 
I made some printouts to set the scene and we’ll have treats and watch a superhero movie. 
This pandemic is so hard on everyone and it’s so easy to overlook how well the children are cracking on throughout, they are so resilient when it comes to change but it’s such an incredibly emotional and unknown time for their little minds. 

So this little treat night is a reminder to them that they too are hero’s in their own right and that we’re proud of the part they play too 💖
🚶‍♀️🚶📮✉️🌈🚪 We took a walk 🚶‍♀️🚶📮✉️🌈🚪 We took a walk around our neighbourhood and used the time to practice our colours by spotting different coloured doors. We took a photo so we could sit down and look at them when we got home too. 
A really simple, fun and educational activity, with the bonus of fresh air too 👌

**All the doors opened onto the main pavement meaning that there were not any front gardens or paths, so we didn’t trespass 😉
🌳📏Finding out how old trees are using string 🌳📏Finding out how old trees are using string! 
We used a piece of string on which we made a mark every 2.5cm along, we then chose our trees and wrapped the string around the girth of the tree around 1.5m up (5ft).
The then we counted the points on the marker and each point (2.5cm) was equal to 1 year. 
This tree is was around 52 years old.
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