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The Ordinary Moments 2016 #1

11 January 2016 by Naomi 4 Comments

This last week has been a week of two halves for me. We were still in the last throes of our holiday mindset while our normal routine was starting to creep back in.

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Vince had gone back to work over the New Year period but he had Tuesday at home which happened to be the last day before nursery started for Emma. I am determined, in our own way, to squeeze as many little adventures in as we possibly can over the next 8 months before Emma starts school. So despite the gloom and drizzle, we grabbed the most suitable clothing we could find (realised a shopping trip is in order!) and headed out to the beach in nearby Bexhill.

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It was our first time visiting this particular little stretch of local coastline. It is lovely, so pretty and peaceful, although I do want to go back in good weather when I’m sure it is even prettier but probably less peaceful! There is a lovely promenade to walk along, which I did with the pushchair while Emma tore about on the beach with daddy.

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We were not out too long as it really did start to bucket down but it was a worthwhile little trip. By the time we got home I had some pizza dough risen and ready for family pizza making. It was fun, took no time at all and made the perfect end of the day treat. As a bonus it’s a much healthier way to eat pizza and try to sneak veggies into Emma, so we’re going to make it a more regular thing.

On Wednesday life took on its more usual routine and I decided it was time to get some ‘spring cleaning’ started. My plan/hope/dream is that I will have thoroughly sorted, organised, decluttered and cleaned every room by the end of January… *ahem* Well, I will try at any rate. I started in the bathroom while Emma was at nursery and found that a baby on the move is not all that helpful! So I lined the bath with an old quilt, threw in some toys and in went Matthew. The bath will be cleaned in a nap time at some point!

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I have been doing some crochet this week too, of course! I’ll share it with you soon!

{The Ordinary Moments} is a linky I recently stumbled across on the blog Mummy Daddy Me hosted by the lovely Katie who writes there. Do pop over and have a look!

Naomi-16

Posted in: Lovely Little Family, Things We Do Tagged: beach, Bexhill, Emma, family, happy things, January, Matthew, outdoors, routine, the ordinary moments, walks, winter

A New Start?

8 January 2016 by Naomi 2 Comments

hello-2016

I guess I should start by wishing you all a belated happy new year…. although one week in to 2016 and I am starting to feel surfeited by all the new year-new start sentiments flying around in every direction. But then perhaps I am just tired and grumpy at the moment!

I have been away for so long from the blog that for a little while there I really wasn’t sure I was actually going to come back to this space. As usual I spent some time going back over the last year or two and reading the memories I have stored up here and once again I have reminded myself why I do keep rambling away. I do not often enough go back to remember what I have posted and while I love crochet, enjoy posting about it and am grateful for the response it gains…. ultimately it is my family posts I love the most. The posts where I am truly rambling about our mini adventures or just our every days, they are the ones that keep me persevering with this.

I struggle a bit though as these days it seems not many people blog like this anymore, just for memory keeping purposes. It is ever increasingly about reviews and sponsored posts, website traffic and social media stats, and creating a revenue. I am torn by this as I understand it and see the potential, we are a low wage one-income family and I do need to think about earning a little to top us up, but I don’t want to lose that personal diary aspect that I love looking back on.

So here I am in 2016 giving myself another year of blogging. I don’t know if I would designate it a new start but I will say that I expect to see some changes around here as I try to balance writing more often my rambling family posts alongside branching out of my comfort zone and working on some new things to grow the blog and earn a little needed side money for my family.

There will of course still be crochet. There is always crochet. <3

Naomi-16

Posted in: Lovely Little Family, Lovely Little Home Tagged: 2016, blogging, family, January, new year, winter

Messy Play (!!!)

3 November 2015 by Naomi Leave a Comment

Last week was half term where we live. Obviously this means that all schools, nurseries, classes, toddler groups, etc.. take a week off. As parents of course we have no such luck, in my house I’m lucky to get a 5 minute toilet break to myself much less a half term holiday!

Consequently my mummy friends and I were in need of entertainment plans and one of the ideas we had was messy play in our church hall(!)

It was a great idea. Honest. 

We learned some lessons, but fun was had and much mess was made. Which was, I guess, the whole point.

So here are a few snaps from last Friday of some very mucky children, as a way of preserving the memories and archiving photos for 18th birthday parties of the future.

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We played with paint, cloud dough, ‘gak’ (cornflour/soap/water), custard, and soap foam. The main lesson here is that this is too much at once. We were perhaps overly keen and hadn’t properly considered the level of clean up that would be required.

For future reference, less mess is better mess. 🙂

Naomi x2

 

Posted in: Things We Do Tagged: autumn, children, Emma, happy things, messy play, October, parenting, play matters, sensory, toddlers
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