One big highlight of this summer was our trip to Alton Towers where we stayed in the Cbeebies Land hotel. We had dithered about it for a while, because it seemed quite expensive and I wasn't sure how good it would be. But I was very pleasantly surprised! I didn't think I'd be saying this, [...]
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Ministry Mum Monday 49
Hello! Happy Tuesday (again). No bad sleep excuses this time, it's the the summer holidays and things are a little blurry. This week life has been mixed. There have been some lovely bits, there have been some very sad bits, and there has been a bit of people not doing what I ask them to. [...]
On her fifth birthday
Well, aren't these starting to come around at an alarming rate! We've had one, two, three, four and now five. FIVE! It feels pretty big, does five. Five years of our Sophia, five years of parenting. It has been the most extraordinary half a decade. But what to say about our now five year old? [...]
5 before 40: Bake a Cake with Sophia
Just before I was 30, I wrote a blog called 40 before 40 and one thing I wanted to do was bake a cake with Sophia. It has been a long time since I added to this blog series and I'm actually behind by about 4. But I couldn't have such a happy afternoon with [...]