It is mid-December and I’m sure like me, a lot of you are right in the middle of getting ready for Christmas. As a father of five children it is not a cheap time of year. For us as a married couple the strain on our finances are worse during the Christmas run up, than…
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Finding Childcare That Suits Your Family
Read moreUnfortunately we live in a world nowadays where both people in a relationship have to work more often than not to keep their heads above water. When a relationship changes and children are introduced to the equation, decisions about working and childcare have to be made. Where a lot of people are lucky enough to…
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Nursery is over Lets have another Baby!
Read moreR and M finished nursery in the last few days. The year has really gone quickly and it’s now time to enjoy summer and prepare them for their first year of full time school. Now that the twins are soon going to be going to school full-time I think it’s time we had another baby! …
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My Sunday Photo.
Read moreThe twins have just three days left in nursery. Then it’s summer holidays and they go back to full time school. The last year has flown by, but their development has been rapid. I caught this moment where R is reading mummy a story. Times are changing.
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Parents evening Part 1
Read moreParents evening for our four year old twins is fast approaching and it’s definitely a surreal experience. It doesn’t seem like yesterday they were babies and now they’re in nursery. This is the thing though, parents evening for nursery. I remember my older childrens first parents evening, but that was the first year of primary…
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R and M nursery progress
Read moreLast week was half term and the girls will soon be moving into their last term in nursery before going to big school. OMG! They are growing up to quickly! Nooooo! Looking back over the last six months it was interesting to me to see how dramatically the girls have changed and how they have…
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R and M’s first school nursery Christmas concert
Read moreYesterday was our twin girls, R and M’s, first nursery school Christmas nativity play and the first step on the ladder to Hollywood Stardom! Over the last few weeks they have definitely been practising and it has been very difficult to say the least to find out exactly what songs they are singing and what…
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The nursery queue
Read moreI take and pick the girls up from nursery twice a week and find it quite amusing at how people behave. The queue is orderly and nobody would dare to jump the queue, everybody stands quietly and most people only talk to their own children. Sometimes people strike up a conversation, but you quickly realise…
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R and M go to their first nursery party
Read moreThe girls have been going to nursery for two weeks and after a few days they had their first party invite by coincidence to another set of twins party. The party was being held in a local church hall with about 40 children aged three to four years old so definitely a challenge for the…
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First full week of nursery is over
Read moreThe twins completed their first week of nursery and as the week went on they began to settle. R definitely settled quicker than M. R started to talk about looking forward to going to nursery at the beginning of the week, but unfortunately M was still a little bit hesitant and she would be a…
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First few days at nursery
Read moreR and M have attended their first three days of nursery. It has been an interesting time not without a few tears and lots of emotion, and that’s just my wife! After the first day, which I have already posted about here, which I may add went reasonably well even though M was really under…
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The twins start nursery
Read moreSo the day arrived and the girls have started nursery. Hopefully all of our preparation has worked and they are ready to go. They were due to start at 9.15am todayand their usual waking time is about 7am so it was going to be a long two hours! They seem quite excited. R definitely is…
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Twins start nursery next week
Read moreThe reality of R and M starting nursery next week finally hit home yesterday. I was driving to work and I drove past the primary school which they will be attending and all of the gates were open and the children were arriving for their first day at school after the summer break. The dread…
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The girls first visit to their new nursery
Read moreYesterday R and M visited their new nursery which is where they will be going in September. They really are growing up quickly. It seems in no time they have gone from being babes in arms to attending nursery for two and half hours a day. It’s frightening because you obviously want them to grow…
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The twins starting nursery in September
Read moreI cannot believe that R and M will be starting nursery in September. The time has flown by! It’s quite frightening that they won’t even be four years old and they’ll be off to nursery for half a day. They just seem too little! The new chapter in their short lives begins and the strange…
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