The sunshine and blue skies have gone again unfortunately and this week has been cold and rainy….there goes the driveway again!!! ………So we have been indulging in some lovely winter comfort food to warm us up inside. I thought i might share some of our favourite winter warmer recipes with you to kick off my new weekly ‘Friday Family Food’…
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Easy Fine Motor Fun for Younger Toddlers!
Many of our activities lately have had a focus on challenging the twins fine motor skills. This is one of the areas we have identified as a delay in development for Ruby so i have been trying to provide some focused activities to complement her early intervention with the specialists. All children develop their fine motor skills at different rates and this…
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The Week that Was…..
It’s was a busy week here….and Winter definitely has us in her grips now! I love the crisp, cool days with the warm sun and blue, blue skies though….i hope they continue and the rain stays away…we have been having so much fun outdoors lately! There was lots of Nature Playdough Fun with beans, twigs and playdough outside….the Toddler twosome enjoyed…
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A Gift from the Past….
A parcel arrived this week and it had me reflecting on family history and how important the past can be to the present thread of family life. The toddler twosomes’ Dad (and my ever patient partner) unfortunately no longer has his parents here on earth with us. Neither of them saw the twins born and i know i have cried a…
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Fun with Nature & Playdough!
We are so lucky to have this wonderful Winter sunshine continuing in our neck of the woods at the moment. So of course we are making the most of it and my little outside loving girls have been having a ball! We picked a whole lot of purple beans on the weekend from this lovely tower….. and there were a…
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The Weekend that Was….
I just had to share this glorious Winter sunshine with you! We finally had a sunny weekend and the whole family made the most of the weather! His patient self got out on the blue beast to grade our steep driveway….unfortunately when we have a lot of heavy rain (as we have for the last MONTH!) it becomes 2 little…
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