Butlins Part One – Friday

Butlins Part One – Friday

This weekend we went for our first ever holiday to Butlins. We are not too far from Butlins, and have always taken the boys for days out at weekends and in the school holidays, but we have never ever stayed there. Last year Baba asked …

A Catch Up – Decorating, Food, and Planning

A Catch Up – Decorating, Food, and Planning

I haven’t blogged in a while, mainly because I have been so busy. But I have really missed not sitting at the computer and pouring out my words and just writing. I love to write and it keeps me sane, if I am totally honest, …

Dreaming a Dream

Dreaming a Dream

Being an adult can become boring, and can be hard. A lot of the time, you spend most of the time, working to get money, and paying bills. After we had Baba we spent a lot of time juggling our money, making sure we had …

The Week That Was…

The Week That Was…

This week has been a bit of a write off. We started with Rhianna’s birthday and it hasn’t really got much better. Life is all a bit up in the air at the moment! We have got a load of renovations happening in our house …

And In 2015…

And In 2015…

I am not one for resolutions as 48 hours after I make them I break them. But I am one for changes. And in 2015 I want positive changes. Our lives have been so hard for so long, negative thoughts have taken over, there have …

And A Happy New Year

And A Happy New Year

This holiday has been a slow holiday, a lovely one, but a slow one. Not slow as in time going slow, but slow as we haven’t done much we have had days at home pottering, not getting dressed, getting jobs done, playing games and just …

A Sick Christmas

A Sick Christmas

This Christmas has been a but of a sickly one. It started with Baba, fighting an illness for so long and then finally succumbing to it on the 17th December the day after his school play. All of his symptoms suggested tonsillitis but once we …

Halloween 2014

Halloween 2014

We have always done Halloween, it is a yearly event we go off to my sisters and the kids have tea with a couple of their friends and then they go trick or treating. Baba loves it. I actually think he gets as excited if …

And It’s Back To School We Go

And It’s Back To School We Go

Today was Baba’s first day back at school since having Half Term last week. It was a shock to the system this morning, having to get up and get out on time. We have had a busy half term, but one where we made no …

Tropical or Coldwater

Tropical or Coldwater

The beginning of last week, in all the run up to the wedding Mr Snail died. He was a grand old age of nearly five as Baba got him about 18 months, we knew he wasn’t going to be around for much longer as he …