Loving Games

May 222013

Over the past year Baba has developed a love for games. Any board game he seems to love. He started to show a love for them just after his birthday last year which meant over Christmas he got a lot of games.

He got some building ones, ones he can do on his own ones that are two players and ones that involve the whole family.

He has gradually got into them all and last week we opened the last one that he got at Christmas. He has traditional games from Dominoes, Connect 4 and Monopoly up to Gator Golf, and Angry Birds Star Wars. He loves getting them out and plays with them a lot.

The other day we went to my sisters and she gave him a game her children used to play with Brainy Blocks it is quite an old version that she had but he instantly wanted to play it and took an instant like to the game.

Chalk Paintings

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May 132013

We decided to make the most of the sunny weather the other day.

Baba loves to draw and there is a perfect canvas out on our front garden in the lovely slabbed path that Mr L did a couple of years ago.

The best thing was it was hot but this area of our garden was completely shaded so Baba was able to stay out of the sun but enjoy the warm weather for as long as he wanted.

We managed to find his chalks, unfortunately we only had small chalks and do need to get some large outdoor chalks for in the future.

Eye Test

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May 112013

Last week Baba had his first proper eye test.

He is growing up far too fast!

I have been wearing glasses since I was 11 years old. It started as being short-sighted and I hated it, I hated that first day at school having to put my glasses on. It didn’t take long before I had to wear them 24/7 and to be honest since I have been driving I don’t think I have ever taken them off in the daytime, unless I am sleeping.

Baba has never seen me without glasses, there is one photo of us together with no glasses. When he was first-born and that is it.

I really can’t see without my glasses one eye is very bad and I can’t even see the big A on the board in the eye test. Continue reading »

My Writing Has Gone

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Apr 302013

It’s true.

I seem to have lost the ability to write.

My journal is empty, and I have ideas for all of my blogs but no words seem to come out.

I have reviews to write but no words will flow.

I have things I want to write about but I don’t really want others to see. So logically the journal would be the best place but even in there the words don’t flow.

I haven’t studied for months. As doing a writing course when you have no words is a near on impossibilty.

So I am stuck.

With all these words in my head

All these ideas flowing.

And none of them processing from the brain to the fingers to get on the computer or in the journal.

I have been stuck for ages.

But it doesn’t seem to be lifting. And I don’t know how much longer it will be before it disappears. I may explode soon I need to write.

I need to offload

If only I could find the words.

Big School

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Apr 262013

This time last week, I had just finished the nervous wait of hearing of which big school Baba had been accepted into.

I had never really thought about it last year, or even as the time became closer. Never really thought about how many times I would check my email in one morning, and how many times I would hit the refresh button on my email to make sure that I hadn’t missed that important email.

It did take all morning and I was just on my way to pick Baba up from preschool about 1pm before I even found out.

The joy of seeing the first choice that we picked was fantastic.

I had never contemplated what we would do if he didn’t get into his first choice or how I would feel. Mr L had and had quite seriously told me that I would be homeschooling Baba if he didn’t get in. So I am pleased that he did as I don’t think either myself or Baba would have coped with that. Continue reading »

It’s The Old Things

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Apr 242013

I love old things, I am not a perfectionist in this I wouldn’t say that I only use vintage things, or like retro items, or love everything to be shabby chic or country looking. If I like it I don’t really care what title it comes under.

I always have been drawn to these type of items.

I never really acted on any of these feelings until I found my bureau and then we got engaged and instantly I knew that I wanted a vintage feel to our wedding, which luckily Mr L has gone along with all the way.

Since getting engaged I have tackled the kitchen to be a little more shabby, and when our phone cable got chewed by the hamster, long story, I knew that we weren’t getting the most up to date gadgety phone I wanted an old school phone. One with actual buttons and the phone attached to the base. When we were offered our trim phone by a friend I was so happy. Continue reading »

A Developing Love

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Apr 222013

I have never been great at gardening, we have lived in our house for nearly 6 years and have never seemed to get the garden right.

To be honest I have never really enjoyed gardening, I am more known for killing plants than my great gardening skills. But it is something that I would love to get right.

We have attempted to renovate our garden many times over the last few years and nothing has worked. We have never enjoyed our garden because it has always been a pigsty.

I would love to be in a situation where I could just let Baba go out and play, but unfortunately we have never been able to as our garden has never been child, or even adult friendly. Continue reading »

Baba and His Crafts #cbias

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Apr 172013

We love to craft in our house, obviously crafting is part of my job, and it has gone through the generations. Baba has as much a love for crafts as I do.

He often wants to get into my craft room and do some art, so we have given him his own craft area under the stairs so he can be like Mummy and toddle of and do his own art work whenever he feels like it.

He has a massive stash of art stuff, but never seems to stop adding to it. Whenever he sees new things he wants to buy them. But his big favourite it painting.

Anything that is painting related is a hit with Baba and it wouldn’t surprise me if he became a painter.

He had run out of paints so we headed on over to Hobbycraft to get some new craft bits and pieces. We both love Hobbycraft, not only does it have great things for adults in it also has a massive children’s craft selection and it is always Baba’s choice to go there. While we were there we also found these fabulous suncatchers.

Click on the above picture to see all of our pictures of our Hobbycraft shopping trip in Google+ album.

Baba Bites

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Apr 162013

Me: “You’re not my baby any more, your my big boy, soon you will be going of too big school”

Baba: “Yeah, I can’t wait for big school”

Me: “Mummy will be very sad you going to big school”

Baba: “Why Mummy? Big school is good”

Me: “You are growing up too fast”

Baba: “No I’m not Mummy”

Baba thinks for a while.

“It will be ok Mummy, when I go to big school i will still let you give me cuddles, and kisses, you don’t have to stop just because I am at big school”

Heart melts!

Gardening Adventures – Front Garden

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Apr 112013

For anyone that knows me, or who has ever read this blog will know that I am not the gardener of the year.

Gardening is something that I naturally struggle with and have done all the time we have lived in this house. I try my hardest at it but I am not the best at all.

But this year, Baba and I and Mr L have some great plans for our gardens, front and back. Baba has now got to the age where he loves to be in the garden and I want to embrace that as much as possible from now on. The back garden is a massive project. It literally needs to be ripped out and started again.

So we decided to start with the easier project this week, when we finally had a bit of dry weather.

The front garden. Continue reading »

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