In today’s busy world it can be difficult getting quality time with your family. For us holidays are important as they allow us to switch off, take a break from our busy routine and spend quality time together. Holidays have also provided us with some of our best memories. With…
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As a family of five, holidays can be expensive. Sometimes hotels won’t accomodate all five of us in one room, which can massively increase the costs. Add in five flights, car hire, food and spending money and before you know it a holiday can feel unobtainable. However, for us travel…
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There’s been so many special moments to choose from this week as all the children have been involved in nativity plays, which I’ll share photo’s from in a separate post. However, the moment I’ve chosen is the twin’s first night in big boy/girl beds. We’ve been putting off changing their…
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It’s been a while since I’ve linked up to the My Captured Moment linky, which is hosted by the lovely Heledd from Running in Lavender. It’s a lovely linky and I’d like to try and do it more often as it’s a lovely way to appreciate special little moments. This…
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You may have noticed that I’ve changed the name of this monthly roundup very slightly to ‘Capturing our moments’ instead of ‘Capturing the special moments’. I know it’s a very slight change and that’s because I want these posts to capture all the moments from our month. There may not…
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I didn’t manage to get chance to do a ‘Things I’m loving lately post’ last month, but I do really enjoy doing them, so here’s my roundup of some of the things I’ve been loving this month… Beauty Kiehls Midnight Recovery Concentrate I’ve been using this for a few months…
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October has been a crazy month for us, here’s what we’ve been up to: I got the ‘You’re In’ magazine for the London Marathon, which has coincided with a foot injury from the recent half marathon I did (it’s finally starting to feel better!). So I’ve wanted to exercise but…
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I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, but somehow just never managed to get round to posting it. I know it’s now mid-October (timing is going too fast!), but I’m still sharing so that I have a record to look back on. September was a pretty quiet month…
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Like most busy mums, I’m keen to make our life and everyday routine as smooth and chaos-free as possible. I was recently contacted by www.first-utility.com who are running a campaign to find the best life hacks. They wanted to know my top life hacks, which got me thinking about they…
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I’ve been meaning to join in with this monthly roundup, created by Emma at Little Wood Life, for a while now. However, with settling into my new job and training for my half marathon, my blog has taken a back seat for a while. But, now my half marathon has…
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Wow, it’s been a hectic couple of months! What with summer holidays, birthdays, changing jobs and getting ready to get back in the routine as Oscar goes back to school, there’s been little time for blogging! This post covers July and August. We were on holiday in August when I…
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