We have just returned home after a wonderful Christmas Tree Hunt. Like all our past Christmas’s, we wanted to go on a Tree Hunt. Part of a Christmas ritual with us is to hunt down a real tree from a local tree farm. It’s really important to us to shop locally and support local farmers [...]
Keeping Christmas simple made it the best one ever. It snowed on Christams Eve and we were woken up by 3 very excited children, to a Winter wonderland. They poured their contents of their handmade stockings on to our bed and we watched as they took turns to show us the treasures they had received [...]
Time is running out for us mums that still have to find those little extras for the kids, something that isn’t plastic and made in China. A wooden spinning top or a handmade finger puppet would be ideal. Trying to go a bit greener this Christmas shouldn’t be so hard. It does mean you have [...]
Where has the last few weeks gone? Am I the only one who feels every week just gets faster. I really cannot believe it’s only a week now until Christmas. It seems life is so much faster than I remember or are we just living much busier lives? The danger in being too busy [...]
Sadly, my Yoga/Pilates class has just finished for the year and won’t start back until January. I’m really going to miss the class, it was the only time throughout the week I was able to switch off and completely chill. What with the festive season approaching, all that extra food and alcohol, I was concerned [...]
Writing Toffee was such a rewarding time. I think out of all the wonderful experiences I encountered in the last 3 years it has to be the children and their enthusiasm and eagerness to want to read, write and illustrate. My favourite activity was making clay models with the children. Every little Highland cow was [...]
I was fortunate to live next to the Highland Cattle and watched the baby calves play like little children, leaping and chasing each other, having an enormous amount of fun.
Just like in the famous American story Charlotte’s Web by Stuart Little, where Fern tries to save the pig. My daughter and neighbour save one of [...]
