childrens activities

Time toFace the Christmas Music

Our Holiday is well and truly over and since I sort of put life on hold until we’d actually managed to finally take this holiday I kind of forgot about my solemn promise to be on top of things this Christmas, before December hit!
But here we are.. December. Eeek!
I had big ideas for Christmas things […]

RIP Red the Randy Rooster!

We’ve been ‘down the coast’ with the girls from playgroup for a few days, having a lovely time, so I haven’t had a chance to post our news…
Sometime during the day on Sunday Mr/Ms Foxie-Loxie came and took Red the Randy Rooster. Yes you read right, during the middle of the day! And while Baldy […]

I think we broke them!

I think we broke our children by getting hugely slack on the junk food rules while we were away…
At 7:25am this morning Izzy’s first words were
“I want cream (ice cream) and chocolate!”
When I calmly said no, that wasn’t breakfast food, she dissolved in a huge pile tantie and then between sobs said “Cake…. I want […]

So Prim and Proper

Whilst splashing in the paddling pool yesterday Zoe stopped to tell me the following …
“I don’t like the beach.The beach has big waves.Waves are terribly crappy!”
I asked her what she just said about waves and she replied in her most clear and proper voice….
“I said, waves are TERRIBLY CRAPPY”

Three Short Years….

Three years.Three. Years.It doesn’t seem like three years.Some days it seems like three seconds, other days it seems like three million years!Around about this time three years ago I was home from hospital, but my girls were not. We had held them once, when they were 8 days old. We had watched them in their […]

Did you notice the silence?

Most of you who ‘know’ me knew we were going on holidays but for anyone who didn’t know I apologise for the sudden silence. I just didn’t feel it was a smart move to advertise the fact that we were leaving our home unattended for the better part of two weeks while attempting a road […]