We really like these new warmer weather spells we’re getting, it just makes you feel better, brighter and more inclined to get outside and enjoy it. As a family we are always on the go, apart from our #familyfilmnight once a week we rarely just chill out together, we are always ‘going’ somewhere to do … Read more
It seems daft doesn’t it that you can live so close to family but hardly ever see them? Unfortunately I have found that is the way that it is when you have young children. Some people don’t worry too much about keeping their children into a routine and their children thrive on it but I’m … Read more
Between Christmas and New Year we were lucky enough to be able to take the children to see Disney on Ice for the first time ever and we had a blast! So can you imagine how excited we all were when I received a further invitation to see Worlds of Fantasy which starts touring the … Read more
As the New Year has started I have decided to look back on the moments that mattered in 2013. Last year started with a bang for us and probably the event that will mark 2013 as a great year for us was the arrival of our cheeky little chappy Jelly Bean on 31st January. After … Read more
Just a quiet one . . . that’s how I would describe our weekend on the whole. Generally we are flying around here and there trying to fit as much as possible into our weekends, trying to make the most of the time that we are all together. It’s no wonder our children rarely sit … 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
BRILLIANT!!!! I’m not normally a big ‘swimming’ person, I hate getting cold, and I used to secretly like it when Albie screamed at the idea of getting in a cold swimming pool because it meant I had an excuse to sit it out. That said, I have never stopped the children swimming and up until … Read more
Yesterday we played holidaymakers for the day in not-so-sunny Skegness. I was supposed to be attending a meeting for the Butlins Ambassadors but when they had to reschedule they offered me the opportunity to still go along as Day Visitors with my family instead. I have been itching to see the new Splash Waterworld since … Read more