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Last night Matthew’s Beavers group held a family bonfire with hotdogs, skits, songs and they burnt their guys they had made last week. My toes were like ice cubes but the fire was almost too hot on my face! The whole family were invited and it certainly made Anya eager to be old enough to […]

As a bookworm myself, I was shocked by the statistic in 2011 that almost a third of children do not own a book, however having worked in schools I believe it to be accurate 🙁 My own eldest, Matthew, had a number of books before he was even born and I read to him every […]

It is almost the autumnal equinox so it’s time to wave goodbye to summer for this year once and for all 🙁 You may recall that I set our family a summer bucket list…well, how did we get on?! A trip on a train We cheated a bit on this one. We didn’t go on […]

So yesterday was a big day: Anya’s fifth birthday but also her first full day of school. A big day for her but also a big day for me. Matthew’s birthday (and mine) are both in May half term so I have always had the children with me for their birthdays, but today was different […]

Anya has been waiting for this all year. As she is a September baby, many of her friends had moved up to infants last academic year so she was more than ready to be a grown up girl! It is crazy to think that when Matthew was the same age he’d already been at school […]