Valentine’s Inspiration: Love tips for new mums

Love seeds

Not every day can be Valentine’s but when you are a new mum it’s sometimes hard to feel that there is any romance left betwen you and your partner Do not neglect this oh so important relationship. He may not have the cash to buy you flowers and chocolate once a week like he used [...]

Family Holidays 2012 Tips and Advice

kids travel

This is a sponsored guest post Travelling with children, particularly young children, can be quite stressful but by following some of these tips from netflights.com you can be as prepared as possible for your 2012 family Holiday Photo credit: Dave Catchpole Always ensure that you double check your travel times. Before you go to sleep [...]

Review: Quicksmart Easy Fold Stroller

QuickSmart Easy Fold Stroller

We were sent this Quicksmart easy fold stroller to review: It has some great design fetaures and has won an Australian design award. Suitable from 6 months to 15kg. 2 fixed seat reclining positions, fixed with locking clips. Forward facing seat. 5-point safety harness. Suspension on front wheels. Linked brakes. Shopping basket. Detachable hood. Raincover. [...]

5 Ideas for Frugal Family Fun on the Waterways

budget canal boat

5 Ideas for Frugal Family Fun on the Waterways Peggy Melmoth, who has written this wonderful guest post, travels the waterways with her husband and two daughters aged 4 and 2. Peggy has lived on a canal boat for eleven years and writes a blog about family life, living aboard at www.narrowboatwife.blogspot.com Twitter: @boat_wife There [...]

How to entertain children in the car.

clown car

A little while ago ones of my sons friends (from quite a wealthy family) commented on how small my car was telling me his mummy’s car had seven seats. My daughter who is 4 spoke up loyally and said ‘yes it its but we have got the best small car  in the world.’ She also [...]

Roman Blind D.I.Y

blind

Do you resolve to be more practical in 2012?  If so check out this fab guest post by Sarah Oxley Roman blinds are, currently, very popular due to their fashionable style and variety of fabrics, as well as their ability to block out light. You can add blackout fabric to roman blinds making them especially [...]

Profile of a budgeting mum: Amanda

amanda

What’s your name? Amanda or @gidders1 on twitter, gidders is a nickname my husband calls me.   Any kids? I have two girls, Miss N who is 9 an avid reader and beautiful to boot, and Miss A, 2 who is a cherub like minx! Do you work? Yes! If so what do you do? [...]

Rosehip to fight off kids colds.

rosehip

My daughter has missed 6 days of school this term with coughs and colds and just see ming worn out and run down. Rosehips make me think about homemade itching powder, but evidence shows that extracts of rosehip could help build a stronger immune system and keep bugs at bay.Apparently they are crammed with substances called bioflavonoids, which [...]

Where do missing coats go?

label

School finishes for my 2 TODAY and I could not be more delighted. Many items seem to have been mislaid.  Name labels are hanging off where my sewing let me down, shoes are scuffed to bits, cardigans are getting a bit small and there are a good few mystery mark on the polo shirts that just [...]

Here’s how to save money on Christmas presents and make your kids really want to spend time with their family

This week I went on Radio Nottingham to talk about why we don’t need to spend much on our kids at Christmas. I was all set to share my usual tips when the man who went before made a really good point that hasn’t really occurred to me before. He stated that he believed higher [...]

Before you visit Santa and spend your money check this out…!

I have already posted this on family-budgeting. For any of you that haven’t made it over to my new site  it’s for all the familys budgeting needs including older kids. I couldn’t not post this here though too…I’d hate you to miss out. Santa’s portable north pole is one of my all time favourite things on [...]

Pregnancy Yoga: 3 complete, free, online workout videos

I have done quite a bit of work with Philips Avent this year and they really do produce some brilliant information for new and pregnant mums.Earlier this year I made a finance video with them sharing lots of tips and tricks. This time they have realeased a brilliant series of yoga videos covering warm up, the [...]

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