One of my goals this year is to get back into the habit of taking photos. Something I really want to do because recording our life is the main reason that I blog.Photos are a great way to record life and I love looking through all my old photos. As this is the first Siblings pinky of the year, I thought it would be nice to share some of my favourite photo memories since I started blogging....The photos I chose aren't necessarily ones from holidays, days out or even any of the adventures we've been lucky enough to go on but they are photos that make me smile when I see the … [Read more...]

Miss F is growing up into a very lovely young lady who is everything I would want in a daughter - kind, caring, happy and loving (unless she's mid pre-teen hormonal mood).  She's turned into quite a girly girl who loves clothes, make up and most other things that you would expect a 12 year old girl to be into.Except for one thing!  She's decided that she would like to join the local boxing club and although I'm not going to say no, I really don't want her to go.It's not because I don't like boxing because as much as I don't like the sport itself, I know it will be good for her in many … [Read more...]

A while ago now I decided I was shouting at the kids too much and decided to stop shouting (or at least try to) wherever possible and to deal with telling them off in a more effective way.It's not like I shouted at them all the time or anything, I just felt that the amount I shouted was too much and that I wasn't setting a very good example.  I felt that the message was getting lost a bit as they were upset at being shouted at and as a result, they didn't always listen to what I was actually saying.It took a few weeks to 'train' myself to act differently if they were naughty but I did … [Read more...]

Over the last year or so Master Frugal has really developed an interest in football - something his Dad has been waiting for since the day we were told that we were expecting a boy!Until then, despite his Dad's best efforts, he had paid no attention to anything football related and wouldn't even consider a game of Fifa on the xbox 360. Then overnight, he was suddenly football mad and couldn't get enough of anything football related.Now they sit and talk about football together, they watch Sky Sports news and discuss what's going on in the football world and they play Fifa together … [Read more...]

Last September I wrote a bit of a bucket list filled with things I wanted to do or achieve during the Autumn months.  I round it quite motivating and as I did quite well and got most things ticked off I decided to do a bit of a bucket list at the start of every season.I cheated a little bit though and split Winter up and did a separate one for Christmas as I had so much I wanted to do in December alone so today I want to share with you my (rest of) Winter bucket list:Someone did mention to me that they thought that a bucket list was just the same as a New Years resolution but I … [Read more...]