Family life can be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, many parents find it difficult to discover new ways of keeping the kids entertained while sticking to their budget every weekend. After all, when you factor in all the expenses of eating out, paying for tickets into amusement parks, and traveling to distant destinations, the cost…
A New Year is the perfect time to look back at the year just gone and look forward to the next. The fact that January 1 is on a Monday this year makes it seem even better, I am not sure why. I can’t say 2017 has been the easiest year The first two months…
At the end of last December, I wrote a post looking back at my most popular blog posts of 2016. I have decided to write on again this year, because sometimes it brings up a few surprises-ones I wouldn’t usually expect to do as well as they did. My most popular post, by far was…
Whereas last month went slow, this month has gone really fast and Christmas Day is hurtling towards us at breakneck speed. It has been a festive month for the siblings-which, for me means only one thing… Matching outfits. Not just matching outfits either. Festive matching outfits. We’ve had novelty And traditional tartan. It really does…
I am firmly in the planning stages now for Christmas 2017. It is Baby J’s first and, I think the first one that G will truly know what is happening. At the moment, G is convinced that flying goats pull Santa’s sleigh and that Father Christmas gets stuck down Stick Man’s chimney and I am…
When you’re a working mum, time with your children is precious. You are already missing out on a large part of their day, and it can be hard to juggle your two full-time jobs at once. Making time for your children is the only way you can be a part of their lives while also…
I almost missed my Siblings post this month. I know I say it every month but it really has flown. We are seven months into our siblings team of three and their relationships change on a daily basis. Having Boo at school and the boys at home means I usually have more photos of the…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about other people’s kitchen tables. Today, I am telling you all about ours. My table was pictured in the last post. Did you spot it? Did you guess? When we moved to the farm, we had lived in a terraced house and had a lovely little table but,…
A while ago, I wrote a piece called How to get Your Partner to Say Yes to Goats. It was a mounted campaign and I was very pleased with myself when Hubster eventually said yes. I now want a Labrador but Hubster is being a little more difficult to persuade than he was about the…
Last year I wrote about the annual cycle of a sheep farming family and you would think that everything is the same one year on, wouldn’t you? The beauty of farming though is that no two days are alike, let alone years and, whether you see it as a good thing or not, I am…
