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[ 10 Oct 2006 | One Comment ]
Make an Art Gallery

Make an ‘art gallery’ for all your kid/baby’s pictures and art works.
You will need:
Coloured Paper
Pencil
Scissors
Blue Tac
Draw and cut out letters for the sign.
Cut coloured paper into strips of a couple of inches diameter.
Blue Tac them to the wall to make a rectangle shape
Stick all the pictures that are scattered around the house up onto the wall!

Travel »

[ 8 Oct 2006 | No Comment ]
Holiday Pics from Centre Parcs

Here are a few holiday pics from Centre Parcs

Erin excited to be on holiday

View from the Villa.

Erin just chilling out.

Ducks in the back garden

Parenting »

[ 7 Oct 2006 | One Comment ]
Pregnancy – Searching For Decent Affordable Maternity Clothes

I was really disappointed with the lack of decent maternity clothes (unless you spend a fortune) on the high street when I was pregnant.
So here’s my best of the worst run-down.
Dorothy Perkins – Good for jeans and casual tops, reasonably priced too.

Topshop – Small range, but they do have some ‘night-out’ outfits, but personally I thought they were a bit plain and everything was black.
Next – Has a good-sized range, similar in style to the rest of their ‘non-maternity’ clothes.

H & M – Wide variety of hit or miss pieces…….however …

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[ 5 Oct 2006 | One Comment ]
I’m Still Alive!

I read a post today. I was going to leave a comment. As I wrote, I realised that my comment was running for longer than three lines. I read somewhere, that if a comment runs longer than three lines you should do an article on you own blog and link-up.
Here’s the article…
and a choice paragraph
During the eight years my children have attended this fine school I’ve watched one thing after another on the playground become “off limits”: the group of twelve trees constituting “the woods” (evidently trees …

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[ 4 Oct 2006 | 5 Comments ]
8 Months Old

Lots happened this month.
We went on our first family holiday and you talked to the ducks, rather you did this funny coughing thing at the ducks, which you think is talking. All the family now ‘talk’ in this funny coughing way, and I am considering a packet of strepsils to be a useful addition to the christmas stockings this year.
You can say mumum and dada. You ask for Daddy when he is at work, then you act all shy when he comes home. Mumum usually comes out …

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[ 2 Oct 2006 | No Comment ]
Pregnancy – How To [help] Prevent Stretch Marks

You may be wondering about stretch marks? Accept that depending on your genes (and apparently whether your Mum had them or not) you may or may not get them regardless of how many creams you use (I used Palmer’s cocoa butter formula by the way). If anyone knows any differently please please let me know and we can help the rest of the female population with this horrible horrible disease!

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