What’s in my changing bag?

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only toddler mum still hauling around such a massive bag! Is it just me?  The Essentials: Nappies/nappy bags Changing mat Wipes Hand sanitiser (Apparently I need two) Bum cream  Change of clothes Snacks & water. I always have raisins and some sort of biscuits in there.  I add other …

Easy and Adorable Storage Jars

These are one of my favourite "crafts". They are cheap, super easy to do and really useful.  As you can see I'm addicted. I use them to store all my craft bits and bobs.  As well as tea, batteries and spare change... You will need: Cleans jars (any size will do) Super glue Spray paint …

Review: Tots Bots Cloth Nappies

We decided to go cloth quite early on in my pregnancy as we wanted to do a little bit towards saving the environment. Cloth nappies can be up to 40% better for the environment than disposable nappies depending on how you use them. The reason we went with Tots Bots was because we happened upon their stall …

An A-Z Guide to Pregnancy

A is for Anxiety. About literally everything. Am I eating too much chocolate? Am I squishing the baby when I sleep? Have I felt the baby move recently? And Asthma. I developed it when I was pregnant. Who knew that was a thing? B is for Bio Oil. Expensive, but good for stretch marks and …

Making playdough even more fun!

For ages I just expected Tiny to be utterly amused by a blob of playdough. Not so much. She'd poke at it for a few minutes and then demand to be taken out of the high chair. It was a 5 minute amusement at best. This week I started giving her bits and bobs to …

1 minute Bedtime Playdough

I've never made playdough before. I've managed to find it in Tesco for 25p and I thought it was too much of a faff. However, Tiny has recently been getting interested in playdough so when I saw a recipe at baby group today for "1 minute Playdough" I thought I'd give it a go. Turns out it really is quite …

Why I deleted my blog

Or more accurately why I decided to delete my previous posts and start again... I haven't posted in my blog for over a year. I told myself this was because I was too busy working full time (I was) or because I didn't have anything to say (I still don't) but that's not the whole …