I bought two punnets of strawberries ($1 each!!!) and cream cheese this week with the idea in mind of making a strawberry cheesecake. However, do you think I could find a recipe that included cream cheese?? All my recipe books called for curd cheese which I could not find at the supermarket and one called for marscapone, which was so expensive! And then I came across this little beauty on Pinterest! It was soooo delicious! I prefer my ... Read the Post...
Getting your child school ready with LeapFrog
With Finn going off to school next year, it brings on a whole lot of emotion and worry. Is he ready? Finn has always been an active learner and picks up anything he is taught very quickly. He learnt the alphabet before he was two, could write his name before three and was ready books just as he turned four. You ask him to go outside and kick a ball or sit and read and it would always be reading first. It sounds like we are bragging right? but ... Read the Post...
Finn’s Fireman Sam 5th Birthday
One of my favourite things about being a mum (and there's so many) is planning the kids birthday's. I always start planning a few months prior gathering ideas related to their chosen theme. Obviously Leo is still little but Finn is at an age now where he loves to choose his own theme and then I start planning around it (and hope he doesn't change his mind!). This year was Fireman Sam. Honestly, I didn't even know he liked Fireman Sam because ... Read the Post...
STAY AT HOME MUM VS WORKING MUM-Why the debate has to end
It's a debate that seems to never end when you become a mum. Who's got it harder?! Those who choose to stay at home with their kids or those who return to work. There seems to be this misconception that stay-at-home mums are slack (and drinking coffee all day) because they don't work or that working mums don't care about their kids because they leave them to earn an income. No matter what you do, you're slammed for it and it has to stop. In ... Read the Post...