This week my children asked if we could have the Christmas music on in the car. It’s still November but straight away I said yes. The me of five years ago would have been completely horrified by this. “It’s only November!” she would have shrieked. “There’s still a month and...
It was Little E’s school disco last Friday – a Superhero theme to coincide with Children in Need. She thought dancing around with her friends and staying up past her bed time was the most wonderful thing ever. So did her younger brothers, who were lucky enough to tag along...
They’d only been dressed ten minutes before it started. Three year old BatBoy: ‘Mummy, my cape itches. I don’t want to wear it.’ And then: ‘Mummy, I don’t want to wear my mask. My nose doesn’t like it.’ ‘Mummy, why can’t I be Supermanboy today? I don’t want to be...
Is anyone else feeling festive yet? I’ve been trying to decide which Christmas events in Cardiff to go to with my family this year. I started making a list, and the list turned into this blog post… so I thought seeing as it is the season of good will, I...
If you’re on a diet or healthy eating, then look away now! There is nothing redeeming about these chocolate and peanut butter squares. But they are incredible, even if I do say so myself. In fact, I don’t need to say that myself because everyone I have made them for adores them,...
I love doing arts and crafts with my children. Whether it’s painting or Play-Doh, I enjoy any excuse to get creative. The funny thing is, I’m really not an arty person at all. I was rubbish at art at school and I genuinely can’t even draw a stick man without...
With the autumn rugby internationals starting this weekend, I’m feeling all patriotic and Welshy. My days of watching our boys in the pub are long gone – so what could be a better accompaniment to the game than a Welsh cake or six? I wrote this little verse a while...
We love arts and crafts! However, I’m just not a very crafty person and a lot of the projects I see on places like Pinterest (I’m on there as cardiffmummy) fill me with dread, as they look way too complicated for me and my children to do. I’m not even...
My children love pirates and they also love dinosaurs, so you can imagine how much they love a book combining the two. Especially when the books are as fast-paced, adventurous and brightly illustrated as the Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs series, written by acclaimed children’s author Giles Andrea and...
These are my pyjamas. I have various pairs that look something like this and I love them. They are so warm and cosy, especially now winter is setting in. For the summer, I have pyjama shorts and vest tops. I have two silk negligees somewhere in the depths of my...
A review of Match, at Sherman Cymru, Cardiff Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl is a heart-breaking tale of a poor young girl who sells matches to make money. After an unsuccessful day of working in the cold, she is too scared to go home to her abusive father....