I’m always going on about how fast time flies, particularly since we’ve had children and I’ve recently been thinking about how to ensure we capture those special moments. I’m not just talking about birthday and other things classed as “special occasions”, but those little magical moments that happen all the…
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During last week’s half term, my mum and I decided to take all the kids to the zoo for the day. Twycross Zoo is about half an hour drive from us and we haven’t been for a few years, so I was really looking forward to it. When we first…
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Things have been pretty quiet on the blog over the past week – apologies! As you can imagine, life is pretty hectic at the best of times. However, these week I’ve been really busy with work, have been away on a two-day course and on Monday the twins were two!…
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Yesterday Oscar had his first skiing lesson. He had some money for his birthday and we broached the topic with him to see if he was keen and he was. I learnt to ski at the Snowdome in Tamworth about seven years ago, and getting the kids to learn at…
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With it being Oscar’s birthday recently, it got me thinking that although I’ve recorded the twins’ birth story, I don’t have Oscar’s anywhere. The main purpose of my blog is to record all those magical moments, so that my kids can one day look through them. Although Oscar was born…
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Yesterday was Oscar’s fifth birthday! I can’t believe it’s been five years since he was born! Why does time seem to speed up when you have kids? He had a great couple of days celebrating. He was at school on the actual day, so we had a party at a…
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We had a great day at Alton Towers today. We’d heard great things about the Santa Sleepover and when we called to enquire, we discovered that you can also just visit for the day. As we only live an hour away it was a much better option for us. We…
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The other day I was looking through my blog archives and came across my very first post. It was the day after the scan, which revealed we were expecting twins. I think in terms of key lifetime moments, that one is definitely is top of the list. I’m not going…
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Today was Oscar’s first school nativity play. He was an angel and he sang his heart out – bless him. I was super proud! And yes, there was the odd tear! It was a little disappointing the we couldn’t take photo’s during the production or of the whole cast, but…
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In our house it’s that time of year again…time to arrange the childrens’ birthday parties! Oscar’s birthday is the beginning of January and the twin’s is the beginning of Feb (great planning there!). Kids today appear to have a jam-packed calendar of parties to attend. I’m sure when I was…
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As I’ve mentioned before I work a 28 hour week. Now this normally works well for us and provides the perfect balance. However, throw poorly kids into the mix and it all goes a little bit wrong. Say hello to guilt! Guilt that I’m not at work and missing important…
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