I must must must remember to think before I speak. This is a lesson my parents have been trying to teach me since I was a child myself and it is one I clearly have not learnt… I consistently forget that there are little ears listening and copying everything I say. So now I have […]
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It is official we left the compound! I repeat Mummy and Daddy left the compound! Now don’t alert the authorities the littles were well looked after by their grandparents and our nanny whilst we had a weekend away. We are actually having some couple time after having kids! So I wrote much of this post
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At some point all children seem to go through an ‘I hate vegetable phase’. If you are responsible for cooking for kids, are in that place and need a solution this easy hidden vegetable tomato sauce is the answer.  One of my son’s has a ‘hate’ food list and it gets longer, seemingly, by the
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So this is exciting and flattering. Navigating Baby has been nominated for a Sunshine Blogger Award by Sarah @mrsploves. I am extremely touched to be nominated for an award that is given to those who are creative, positive and inspiring. To know that even one person would see me as any of those things is
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In our house we have two boys at school and two toddlers at home. With World Book Day coming up there has been much excitement about what character they wanted to be especially as it is the first time their school has done it. This excitement has not been lost on the toddlers, but they
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I know that there are lots of mummies and daddies out there who inwardly groan every time school holidays approach as it is just a total administrative and organisational nightmare if you are both working. I totally get why this is not something that people look forward to, but I love the school holidays and
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Before I had children of my own I would watch other parents, including my own, and be entirely convinced that there were things I would never say to my children. Yesterday as I told one of the twins to eat because there were children starving in the world I realised I have blown it! I
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Woohoo! It’s day four of potty training twins and we have a result! One of the twins has only gone and cracked it. There were no accidents today, but more importantly, she initiated everything. I did not remind her and she nailed it. Tempting Fate  I hate to tempt fate, but I am going to
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Today was a tale of two halves in our navigation of potty training twins. One of the girls had a real breakthrough I think. She still had a couple of accidents, but these were largely whilst she was running to the potty so she is just leaving it a bit late. She does seem to
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OMG!!! What a shambles… The wheels well and truly came off today. I had help all day so it should have been easier, but the twins seem to have entirely abandoned ship. We went through so many pairs of knickers and it was so cold we had to keep on putting them on. The only
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