It's completely normal for your 11 year old to send you a text when you're sat at work to ask if her and her 8 year old brother can actually make a potion, isn't it?Naturally I said no but then my working mum guilt kicked in and I ended up letting them under the strict instruction that they didn't make a mess and they only used juice and cake sprinkles!They clearly thought it through because half an hour later I got another text - this time with a photo of a recipe that they'd written for their potion:They'd put so much effort in to the recipe that I didn't have the heart … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween….
I hope you're having as much fun this Halloween as we are ;-)Our pumpkins are lit....The costumes are on:And we're ready for the Trick or Treat-ers to descend thanks to all the lovely goodies that Haribo sent us (because kids and grown ups love them so you know):So all that's left to say before we go and eat way too much sugar is.... … [Read more...]
How I encouraged my children to become happy readers who love books….
I know I've said this before but Master Frugal was once very behind his classmates in his reading and although I tried not to let it bother me, it did. It really did. More so because reading is so essential to everything in life that it was starting to seriously affect his confidence which in turn affected all other areas of his life - the day he said to me that he thought he was stupid my heart broke.But things improved rapidly when he was selected for his schools Reading Recovery program which involves one on one tutoring for an hour a day every day for a full term. Whatever was … [Read more...]
Bobbing for apples….
This is quite possibly the most fun thing we've done in a long time - it certainly made us laugh more than I can remember us laughing before. At one point I literally had tears rolling down my face although that could have been because Master Frugal burped in the water on his last go ;-) … [Read more...]
Review: Our afternoon at Cadbury World….
We've been trying to fit in a visit to Cadbury World in Birmingham for a while now but it wasn't until last week that we actually managed to get there and it was only in the car on the way there that I discovered that everyone had their own reasons for being excited about going. You see, I was looking forward to it just because I like to visit new and interesting places with the kids but Mr Frugal was only coming along because he'd heard there would be free chocolate and the kids just wanted to meet an Oompa Loompa ;-)We all enjoyed our visit but Miss Frugal in particular had a great … [Read more...]
Conker Chaos….
We've had such a busy time lately that we decided last weekend was going to be a do nothing weekend and for the most part, we succeeded in doing absolutely nothing that didn't involve pyjamas and blankets ;-)But by Sunday night we needed to get out and do something so we put our wellies and coats on since it was looking a bit grey outside and headed to the park for a conker hunt. The park where all the good conkers can be found is about 15 minutes drive away and I'm not exaggerating when I say that by the time we go there the rain was bouncing and the sky was so dark you'd think the end … [Read more...]
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