{Updated for 2016} This is the time of year when all of us bloggers are sharing our top tips on how to get the most out of the Summer Holidays and to be fair, if you're anything like I was when my two were younger then you can do with all the help you can get to fill your days with fun and avoid the dreaded 'I'm Bored' words being uttered. Anyway this morning when I woke up, the sun was shining and the clouds in the sky weren't grey and angry for a change so I thought today would be a good day to share my ideas with you all. But then it occurred to me that over the years I've been blogging, … [Read more...]
My secret to planning some spontaneous fun….
That doesn't make sense does it? The words planning and spontaneous aren't supposed to go together at all but they do, they really do!I have a bag that I keep in the back of the car in the Summer which is filled with things that mean I can say YES when they want to do things - let me explain how we're prepared for Summer with our Summer bag!The first things in our Summer bag are two old towels which mean that the kids are free to paddle in the sea if we have a trip to the beach or we decide to stop off there on the way home from somewhere. In the past I might have said no because … [Read more...]
Small things that make me smile {June 2016}….
Even though I've not been too well for the last couple of weeks (just a virus that's dragging on - nothing dramatic ;-)) we've still had another really lovely month with some great moments that have made me smile....The first one I'm going to tell you about today is the text Miss Frugal got this morning from one of her friends as she was getting ready for a school visit to spend the days with some monks at a monastery. Her friends seems to have not read the letter too well as she woke up this morning gutted to find out she was going to visit monks and not monkeys! She only realised it was … [Read more...]
When Crafting doesn’t go according to plan….
I've said this before and I'll probably say it again but I am NOT a creative person.It's not that I don't try though - it just seems like the harder I try to make something pretty, the worse the end result is. It's like I got missed out when they were giving out the creative genes (I also missed out on the cooking genes and the green finger genes but hey ho) and things more often than not turn out looking very different to how I pictured it in my head before I started.But before I show you this week's crafting fail, I would like to point out that Miss Frugal and I often do a little … [Read more...]
20 Surprising ways that Pinterest can help you win at life….
I'm a pretty recent convert to Pinterest but now that I'm starting to get the hang of it, I'm hooked. You can use it to find inspiration, ideas and help for just about anything and the guided search option makes it so easy to find exactly what you're looking for. How to use the guided search function in Pinterest The guided search really self explanatory but there's a great video that Pinterest have made that gives you a quick one minute demo of how to use it - it's well worth a watch if you want to see how easy it is to use.Once you know how to narrow your searches down you'll have … [Read more...]
Create your own personalised family travel map….
Miss Frugal has definitely caught the travel bug after our little break away to Cyprus recently! She seems to have developed a real love of travelling and visiting new places, something I want to encourage in both of my children because it's so important for them to learn about the world around us.She's started her own little travel journal to record the places that we've already been and she's been asking me for one of those personalised family travel map you can get where you scratch off the places you've been (like these). Rather than buy one of those for her, I bought a small … [Read more...]
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