Thanks to Christmas Kingdom at Celtic Manor Resort for inviting us along From the minute we started driving up the long steep entrance to Celtic Manor Resort it was clear the hotel had gone to town on their Christmas decorations. Tree after beautifully-lit tree lined the road with the twinkling...
Thanks to Hamleys for inviting us along That moment when your three and a half year old sees Father Christmas walk through the door and his eyes light up and his whole face smiles so much you can feel the magic and excitement in the air. I just want to...
“I love him so much! He’s my best friend!” In case you were in any doubt as to whether 3½-year-old Littlest Boy I liked the new Interactive DC Power Punch Batman he was sent to review, the above is what he said completely unprompted while cuddling his new toy before...
*thanks to Start-rite for sending Littlest a pair of school shoes to review When I started Cardiff Mummy Says back in August 2014, my youngest child was nicknamed Baby, my middle child was approaching three, and Little Miss E, my eldest, was about to start reception. I wrote a post...
Looking every bit as though it had jumped off the TV screen and straight onto the stage, my children loved Paw Patrol Live at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena this morning. The live action stage show is in the Welsh capital this weekend as part of its UK tour, with three performances...
An uninterrupted shower! Reading the Sunday papers! No one complaining they don’t like their food! Having someone cook for me and tidy up afterwards! A morning lie-in without a three year old jumping all over me or trying to prise my eyes open! The sound of silence! I didn’t realise...
Now that she is 7¾ and about to start year three, Little Miss E is so over the character lunchboxes and backpacks she has previously adored. The shift happened somewhere in year two, when suddenly Frozen and the likes were no longer cool. She agreed (reluctantly) to make her lunch...
The last time I watched The Addams Family was in the early 1990s, when Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christina Ricci and Christopher Lloyd portrayed the kooky family on the big screen. Who could forget that finger clicking da-da-da-da tune and Wednesday Addams with her plaited black hair? That film, and...
Paid collaboration Please tell me I am not the only mum who regularly has a meltdown over the laundry? With three kids and two grown-ups in the house it is seriously never ending. Regular clothes, school uniforms, husband’s work shirts, more socks and pants than I can count, not to...
Mountain View Ranch is one of our favourite places to visit, with over 10 acres of open space and free-range activities for families. One of the things that keeps us going back is that they are always adding new activities and developing the existing ones. It’s changed quite a bit...
If you’re as old as me, you’ll remember Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from the early 1990s. Revived for the stage in 1991 after a 10 year absence, it was huge back then. Heartthrob of the day Jason Donovan starred in the lead role, followed by children’s television presenter...