Sabina Green 
When it comes to taking care of myself, I’m er . . . lazy! I always start with the best intentions, I love creams and lotions and potions but I end up sleeping through my alarm or getting into a daze and before I know it, I’m running late again. This has only been since … Read more
Up until 31 January 2014, the UK Government will match pound for pound all public donations made to UNICEF’s work for the children of Syria. Text WARM to 70111 to give £3 or visit unicef.org.uk Superstars of Hollywood and the music industry have voiced grave concerns about the plight of Syrian children facing a … Read more
To say that Little Bean’s behaviour is a challenge of late would be a HUGE understatement. It’s rather like living with Jekyll and Hyde some days, one minute she can be the sweetest, kindest little girl and a pleasure to spend time with and in the next second she reminds me of the devil child … Read more
There are so many things that we would like to take our children to see and to experience, many of which we will never be able to afford with four children but sometimes the opportunity comes knocking on our door thanks to my blog so who are we to turn them down. Just after Christmas, … Read more
For the first time in years we actually had the opportunity to go out and celebrate the New Year and what’s even better was that we were able to take the children along too. Friends of ours who were in a similar situation organised a family friendly New Year’s party at our local leisure centre … Read more
On Sunday we had a visit from our very good friends from Skegness and had a lovely day. We enjoyed time at home catching up whilst the children played and then we finished it off with a visit to Santa’s Grotto and Winter Wonderland at Baytree Nursery in Spalding for Jelly Bean’s First Christmas visit … Read more
1. Make up a warm bubbly bath using family favourite Matey Bubble bath and read the story encouraging lots of bathtime bubbly fun. See who can make the best Santa bubble beard? 2. Snuggle them up in soft, warm, Christmas Pyjamas sent ‘early’ by Santa and tuck them into bed telling them that their ‘special … Read more
As the Christmas season was just getting into full swing we received the rather unwanted news that my Husband was being made redundant. As I’m sure many of my readers have been in a similar situation or know someone who has been through redundancy knows, it’s not good at any time of the year but … Read more
In the run up to Christmas I try very hard to do some kind of Christmas crafts with the children every day to make it feel special. This year we have chosen to have a ‘handmade’ Christmas as much as possible, so far we have made some Christmas decorations, Christmas cards and today we made … Read more