Nobody ever said parenting would be easy but there were certain things that I was perhaps a little daft to take for granted, like; breastfeeding would be a piece of cake – I got that wrong my children would all love food – I got that wrong pooping would be simple, it’s human nature – … Read more
If you know me well, you’ll know that mealtimes are my least favourite meal of the day as far as the Beans are concerned. I never intended for it to be that way, obviously, but over time Little Bean’s dislike for most foods coupled with the boy’s tendencies to copy her have resulted in most … Read more
Its not a secret that eating and mealtimes with my children is the Bain of my life. I hate mealtimes and sadly they are getting worse. Little Bean is dropping more and more foods off her list of acceptable foods. Today for lunch whilst on a shopping trip to Ikea she ate three chips and … Read more
I’m a bag lady! There, I said it!! By that of course I don’t mean I live out of bags, I mean I love bags. Big ones, small ones, plain ones and fancy ones. I have always loved (and owned far too many) bags but that’s a perk of being a female right?! This Summer … Read more
By Leslie Vandever He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. –Arabian saying In today’s world, health is big business. Drug and natural supplement companies sell potions and pills. Exercise and diet entrepreneurs by the tens of dozens sell just as many ways of getting and staying fit. And the … Read more
As the school year was coming to a close my boys and I picked up our friends Karin and Sammy for a Mothers and Sons day out in Oxfordshire. We had been invited to a Summer Picnic at Q Gardens Farm in Abingdon by Cherry Good juice to celebrate National Cherry Day. Followers of my … Read more
Breakfast is the best meal of the day, or at least it is in our house when trying to feed the Beans. Perhaps it’s because they have been asleep and without food for so long, I don’t know but what I do know is that we get through A LOT of breakfast cereals. I’m quite … Read more
I always remember back to my early working years at a small firm of Solicitors where many of the ladies I worked with drank Herbal teas and fruit teas. One day one of the ladies made me a cup and I just didn’t get it. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the flavour but at … Read more
Breakfast is the one meal of the day that we don’t generally have too much trouble with in getting our Beans to eat, it’s actually more a case of getting them to stop! When weaning them we often turned to Weetabix and it was always received with big open mouths as they couldn’t get enough … Read more