My four year old twin girls are half way through their first term at full time school and of course this week is half term so I thought it would be a good time to give an update on R and M’s progress. When the girls started it all looked great. There was a new…
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Halloween, Iceland and #thepoweroffrozen
Read moreThis year my four year old twin girls have become more aware of Halloween and this has happened since they started full-time school. The school had a scaries and fairies party just a few days ago and the girls loved dressing up. During half-term they went to a Halloween workshop at a local garden centre…
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My Daughters and neo-natal
Read moreIf you are a regular reader of my blog you might have read that that my 19 year old daughter is currently in her second year of university studying child nursing. Part of the course involves going out on placement to different hospitals and gaining experience in all the facets of child nursing. The placement…
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Not Long Till Christmas OMG! The Cost.
Read moreIt’s 62 days until Christmas. I love this time of year. The shops are filling up with Christmas decorations. The supermarkets are filing up with toys and the spirit of Christmas is beginning to appear. No, wait a minute. OMG! It’s the cost of Christmas! I have five children and a wife, and the cost…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreThere is no particular reason why I chose this as my Sunday photo. I just love it,my twins are growing up too quickly. They really do make me laugh a lot,the older they get.
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My First Bananagrams Review.
Read moreRecently I did a review of party Bananagrams and then I was sent My First Bananagrams to play with my four year old twin girls. My First Bananagrams is suitable for children aged 4+. The game uses lowercase letters and combo-letters tiles to encourage your child’s love of wordplay and word games it has multiple…
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Brilliant dad feature week 84
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad is Danny. He is 31-years-old and lives in not so sunny County Durham with his wife and daughter, 20-month-old, Ayla. He started writing a blog as he wanted to document his progress as a first time dad and give Ayla something to look back on later in life. He also…
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Is it Possible for a Four Year Old to Inherit OCD.
Read moreOne of my four year old twin girls, R, is definitely shows signs of OCD. I have been wondering if this is possibly hereditary because as a child right through to my teenage years and early twenties I suffered from this condition, although I’m not sure it was known as that in those days. I…
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When do our Children Stop Seeing us as Their Superheroes?
Read moreBeing a parent you have to be absolutely everything to your child. The more children you have the bigger the juggling act becomes and the harder it is to keep all the balls in the air at the same time. As you can see my superhero name is Captain Bubblehead. The minute I see dirty…
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Talking openly with your children
Read moreI have been a parent a long time now and one of the most important lessons I have learnt is to have an open relationship with them all. To never to be frightened or worried about talking about any subject with them. What I have also learnt is that broaching certain topics which can often…
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Brilliant dad feature week 80
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is James. He is from Reading in the UK. He’s married to Sarah and they have an awesome 2 year old son called Joshua. His blog is just somewhere that he can write about things that inspire him and that will hopefully give people a bit of a laugh…
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Brilliant Dad Feature week 79
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad is the awesome blogger, vlogger and absolutely fantastic photographer, Darren. He blogs at Photalife.com and also has a blog called LoveAllDads.co.uk. He is also the person that also runs the the truly brilliant linky called #MySundayPhoto. Thank you so much to Darren for taking part. 1. Have you always wanted to…
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Apparently Dads Don’t Babysit!
Read moreThe last six months or so I have seen an increasing amount of comments about dads saying we don’t babysit our children. In all honesty, of course we don’t babysit our own children. You can’t, it’s simply not possible! The issue for me is why is it so necessary to be bombarded with marketing all…
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How far will you go to keep your kids happy?
Read moreLast Saturday we went to a birthday party at a local soft play venue called Funtastic. R is very particular as a child, actually she is bordering OCD at the tender age of four. There are three things that must go with her everywhere. One is her Nike cap, one is her turtle sunglasses and this…
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My Sunday Photo.
Read moreMy photo this week is my four year old twins showing sibling twin love with a big cuddle. I love the way they can be arguing one minute and then showing huge love for each other the next.
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My Mum Made Me Sad the Other Day
Read moreGrowing up my relationship with my mum was fractured and at times totally dysfunctional all though my teens right into my thirties. Time of course has helped some very unpleasant memories fade but they will never completly go away,but as you grow older you definitely mellow and you think what’s the point which is where…
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All This Spare Time: What Will We Do? Get Very Romantic.
Read moreLast week, as I have already written, my four year old twins started school full-time. My only job of the week was decorating a hall/landing and stairs in a semi detached house which went a lot quicker than I had anticipated, enabling me to finish by mid morning on Friday. What could we get…
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Children Are Wonderful But Relentless.
Read moreHaving children and becoming a parent is without question the most wonderful feeling in the world, but OMG! It’s relentless! There is just never a break and having five children ranging in age from 21 years down to four year old twins. Life is never your own, and over the last 48 hours recently it…
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My Daughter E Returns to University for her 2nd Year
Read moreLast Saturday I was up at 6am to take my daughter back to university to study for her second year. It was a very interesting start because I wasn’t entirely sure where she was staying, but she did text me an address of a friend where she said would most likely be staying overnight after…
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Do children need boundaries/rules?
Read moreOf course they do! It’s ridiculous to think or believe that they shouldn’t. One of my gripes is parents who say that they want their children to grow up free spirited. It’s madness! Even with a free spirt there has to be boundaries so that hopefully they will grow up to be well adjusted, polite,…
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