Parenting
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Jakks Pacific Beauty and the Beast Range Review
Friday 17th March will finally see Disney’s live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. This is probably the most anticipated movie of the year (until Star Wars anyway). And although I have my thoughts about the casting, I am excited to finally see it. But not as excited as Little Miss, who is pretty much counting down the days until she can finally see it. She squeals with excitement when it comes on the TV. She walks around singing the songs from the animated classic, her art work is all Beauty and the Beast inspired, it’s consuming her life at the moment. Belle is now her favourite princess, she…
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#IWD2017 Females are Strong as Hell
Today is International Women’s Day and with certain countries in the world going backwards a few decades and some not even progressing at all, we need this day more than ever. For a long time, when I didn’t fully understand the term feminism, I didn’t consider myself a feminist but times have changed. Back then because I supported traditional values such as being the stay at home mum, doing the cooking and cleaning while the man works but then I realised that that didn’t stop me from being a feminist. Being a feminist means having the right to choose what sort of a life I live without any discrimination. In…
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New Mum? You Must Be Tired!*
Being mum to a newborn is exciting. You’ve waited nine months to hold your little love in your arms, and now they’re here! There’s no denying that having a new baby is amazing. But, it can also cause a lot of stress. Not only is your body recovering, but you have new life on your shoulders! That’s overwhelming enough. Add sleep deprivation, and you’ve got new motherhood! That sleep deprivation will not aid your recovery, or put you in the best stead to look after your little one. The good news is, there are ways to make sleep easier. If you’re struggling to get the balance right, these tips should…
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Days Out in England – Bones Exhibition at The Great North Museum
Yesterday we continued our trend of having a day away during the school holidays. During Christmas we ventured up to Edinburgh to enjoy the Christmas Market, so this time we headed south and went to Newcastle. Since our #littlediscoveries adventure last year we discovered some great new places including The Great North Museum that Little Miss really enjoyed and when I heard they had a new exhibition on I decided we should go during half term. I asked my mum if she wanted to come with my nephew as he’s really into bones and even wanted to be an archaeologist at one point! So we booked trains and exchanged some…
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What Little Miss Read – Edie by Sophy Henn
It’s been so long since I’ve gotten around to doing a What Little Miss Read section on the blog, not because we haven’t been reading, because we have, a lot. It just happens to be a lot of books about Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy the dog and I’m not the one who’s been doing the reading! I guess that’s what happens when your kid starts school! However when this particular book arrived and we had a read through, I just knew we needed to do a very special post about it and finally today we had a chance to. Edie by Sophy Henn* Edie is the newest children’s book…
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Things to Do With Kids in the Newcastle
Next week Little Miss is on half term for a week, so as usual the week before I’m trying to plan a few activities for us to do. We’re not going anywhere special as March is shaping up to be a busy month for us so I’m trying to save as much money for that instead, however unless the weather is truly terrible I’d rather we didn’t spend the whole time in the house. We live on the Scottish Border so we can either go north or we can go south when it comes to finding thing to do. North we have up towards Edinburgh and south we have the…
