Finding Peace
Yesterday did not start well. I had very little sleep the night before and began to feel quite poorly as the day wore on. My head banged and the room seemed to swim before my eyes. Ben and Boo had been...
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"Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved."-- Kate...
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Doing Things We "Shouldn't" - Part One
Splatter Paint All Over The Walls Needed:Roll of easel paperOld ELC block paintsMasking tapePaintbrushesOld clothes 2 Excited childrenThen spend the next hour or so making swamp mixtures in the bath...
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Opening our Hearts
Inspired by this post at Practically Perfect Mummy, I have been looking through the hundreds of photos that we have on our computer and never printed off. Its been very emotional with lots of oohing...
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Sunday Busy Sunday
Today was one of those beautiful days where it all just flows.It was a day of relaxed busy-ness at least on the parts of the children and just relaxing for me. I can't speak for Ben!It started late...
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Beautiful Fun - Graph Your Website
Thanks to this fabulous blog, we found an amazing site called Webpages as graphs. We typed in www.the-wonder-days.com and here is the result.Not only that it, grew and unfolded before our eyes, We were...
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Doing Things We "Shouldn't" - Part Two
Drawing on the Furniture!For a while now I have been feeling inspired by this post on the wonderful "improvised life" blog.One day I was scrabbling desparately for ideas for Ben's birthday. Hampered by...
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Home Makers
Boo and Yeubi seem to just love finding homes for creatures at the moment.The latest round has been a snail, a woodlouse and a slug.The snail is even given a pet (bead) dog which in turn is given its...
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Creating your own path - Boo's way
Apparently our lawn was a river, infested with crocodiles, and Boo needed to get safely to the other side to rescue her inflatable poke(mon)-ball.She picked up some small offcuts of wood from a gate...
View ArticleYeubi's bedtime ponderings
Tonight I lay in Boo's bed as she drifted off to sleep listening to a relaxing kids CD. Across the room Yeubi was in his bed listening to the same CD and pondering out loud to me. These Cds take a bit...
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Northern Lights In Our Living Room
One afternoon last October, I suddenly noticed a strange light on our wall! On further investigation, it turned out to be sunlight reflecting on some red holographic card. A friend had bought lots of...
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Shoe Love
Boo has a pair of pale pink shoes which were passed down to her by a friend. They are a bit worn but she loves them. Recently she has revamped them with love, care, fabric pens and biro to make them...
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Paper Clips
Today someone generously gave us several boxes of coloured paperclips. How irresistible!Boo and Yeubi got straight to work. First of all Boo seperated out all the pink and white ones from one box and...
View ArticleEngaged Parenting (getting off my bottom!)
For a long time now I have known that parenting goes most smoothly and joyfully when you are engaged and present with your children. I know that when I become distracted and preoccupied things can...
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