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SATS are coming!

So this morning saw me sending my eldest, E, to school to sit her first Yr 6 SAT exam. One of the most ridiculous things about our education system seems to be the idea that our children must be tested at every stage in order to “track their progress.”

Now most of us know that in fact at this stage it’s more to do with tracking the schools progress than the kids. They elude to the idea that it…

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Beating yourself up...

Beating yourself up…

So recently I’ve been feeling like a bit of a failure if I’m honest, maybe it’s the weather making me feel crappy being so up and down or maybe it’s just that I’m slowly coming to the end of my maternity leave? You see when I started my Maternity I had big plans, huge (slightly unrealistic plans) I planned to be one of those excellent mothers who found a niche market, set up a business and became…

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Fantasy Shop Marks and Spencer’s

Fantasy Shop Marks and Spencer’s

You know the drill by now people I’m awake doing night feeds (why has she started waking up again?!) (a completely different post that one 🙄) so I browse my fave websites and fantasy shop what I’d get if that money tree was at the bottom of the garden or if we did indeed win the lottery. Mostly kids stuff as I can’t resist the kids section of M & S but some stuff for me and the home too. (All…

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Half Term Fun - Thackary Medical Museum

Half Term Fun – Thackary Medical Museum

Monday was day #1 of the half term holidays and saw us go to a new place we hadn’t been before (apart from a school trip I went on about 20+ years ago) I first got the idea for this trip browsing on Facebook and I came across a event they were doing called Junior Surgeon! E has decided recently that she wants to be a brain surgeon when she grows up and has been avidly reading books about the…

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My High Street Wish List

My High Street wish list this week, going to try and make this a “thing” on here. Such great clothes around at the minute and with no money tree at the bottom of the garden the least I can do is take pictures and post the links so hopefully some of you can buy them instead 😍 Shops used are Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Next!

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Daughter, you are 11....

Daughter, you are 11….

So I wake up this morning the mother of an ELEVEN year old. I’m not sure how this happened or when but there it is. My eldest daughter is 11. This is something of a surprise to me as I imagine it is to most parents, that your children just wander off one day and grow up. I mean you think you’re watching and of course you are, you’re observing and guiding and taking the pictures, but it still…

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Sunday Funday A cold but sunny day at Brodsworth Hall (again) Rebecca Xx

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A new year, not a new me....

A new year, not a new me….

So here we are, 2018. 2018. Just letting that sink in. I can’t believe that at all. It was only 2 minutes ago that I was excitedly seeing in 2016 thinking it was my wedding year surely?! Not a whole 2 years?! Last year for us was HUGE we moved into our house right at the beginning of the year and P was born in August meaning we now have 3 girls and the husband will definitely go grey any day now…

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Winging it SEN style....

Winging it

Yesterday started off pretty crappy, I had to have a word with Ms teacher because she came out of school crying saying her 1 friend (she only really gets attached to one person at a time) said she needed a break from her and went to play with another kid which resulted in M having to play hopscotch by herself. Trust me after she told me that she wasn’t the only one crying in the car on the way…

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My problem with Advent Calendars 🌲🙈

Here we are on the 12th December already! Didn’t realise just how far we had got into December until M asked me this morning what door to open on her advent calendar (cue minor breakdown about all the stuff I still need to do before the big day) Speaking of Advent Calendars I have decided they are the bane of my life at the minute. Clearly whoever invented them had not counted on people having…

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Christmas, shopping is coming

Its that time peoples .....

This weekend was officially the start of the Christmas season, we started Christmas shopping, I did have a few bits I’ve accumulated along the way from various sales or amazon etc but it was last weekend that we actually went out for the purpose of getting gifts for people. Plus we bought the “big present” for each of the kids this weekend too! (E if you’re reading this tough luck I’m not going…

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Nothing says fun like a trip to Accident and Emergency ....

Got to love a trip to Accident and Emergency....

Last Thursday I spent my afternoon in A & E ( I get to go to all the best places) with E. Trips to accident and emergency (for minor injuries obviously) are always a tedious business. If you’re lucky you’re there with a child who is ok enough to whine about it and you can amuse yourself with creatively finding ways to tell them to shut up like I did. You see for a good few months now E has been…

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