With Team Honk coming to St Albans this Tuesday I'm purposfully going for a picture heavy, word light Ladybird Tuesday post this week. I've chosen one of my favourite books from my favourite series, 633 - Hobbies and Interests, and it's also a book which I'm hoping to do some of the makes with Little Miss C this year - Toys and Games to Make. All the things that the book shows you on the contents page are the sorts of things that people used to have knocking around in their house back in the 60s (or even 70s) when this book was first published. I clearly remember my Dad ... read more
The Lego Baddies Road Trip
When I saw that Carcraft were looking for bloggers and their children to act out an action scene using Lego as part of a competition to win £100 worth of Lego I just knew that we had to enter. Three year old Little Miss C loves Lego. Completely and utterly. Almost as much as I do and she's forever acting out stories with it and using her imagination to come up with weird and wonderful plots. I should warn you though that she's one that doesn't believe that one brand of toy should be played with in isolation from another, so you can often end up with stories where a Lego man ... read more
Win one of three Product of the Year 2014 Hampers
I had such an amazing time at the Product of the Year 2014 Awards and since that night I've been trying out the award winning products which I brought home in my goody bag. I'm delighted to say that three lucky readers of Being Mrs C are also going to be able to try these Products of the Year for themselves by trying to win a hamper containing over £180 of winning products. Each hamper containins award winning products from Andrex, Fairy, Flash, M&S, Dolmio and XLS Medical among others. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then all you need to do is follow the ... read more
Team Honk is coming to St Albans
I've been planning to write this post for over a month now. I've been wanting to tell you all about our exciting plans for the bloggers of St Albans to do their bit towards raising money for Sport Relief. But, to be totally honest with you I've been so busy wrapped up in organising it all that I've just not had time. There are only 36 hours left now before it's our turn on the Team Honk stage, so without further ado I guess I'd better tell you what we're up to. It's nearly a year to the day since I told you all about Team Honk - the amazing team of three bloggers that formed to raise money for ... read more
Valentines Crafting with Bostik
I was delighted to hear recently that we'd been selected as part of the Bostik Family Craft Bloggers Network. We do a lot of crafting here as a family, but the thing we're probably a bit rubbish at is doing seasonal crafts - instead I'm more inclined to go with what Little Miss C wants. The idea behind the Bostik network is that we're sent a package of craft goodies every other month and challenged to come up with something seasonal and to blog about how we made them. Perfect for directing some of our crafting mojo. The January package was themed for Valentines day with lots ... read more
I love you, Alfie Cub – Angela McAllister and Daniel Howarth
When I was expecting Master C I turned to books to tryto explain everything to Little Miss C. I found some great stories to help explain the practical side of it all, but with her being only just two I found that she wasn't yet asking questions about the emotional side. When they find out that a new baby is joining the family some slightly older children can really get themselves quite in a tizz about it all and they worry that once the new baby is there Mummy or Daddy won't want or love them any more. I Love You, Alfie Cub is the perfect book to explain those changing ... read more
Win a Disney Sofia the First trio puzzle to celebrate National Puzzle Day
Who doesn't love a jigsaw? There's something old fashioned but incredibly satisfying about getting all those pieces together in the right places to form the picture on the box lid. And it's even more satisfying when you've managed to complete a particularly difficult bit of sky or grass - as we all know that all those shades of blue or green are incredibly difficult to get right. A few years ago, before children, Mr C bought me a couple as a Christmas present and it was great to sit down and spend a few hours doing them whilst listening to music - incredibly relaxing too. Nowadays I'm most ... read more
Featured Post: Controlling your heating to save money
We're now nearly a whole month into my year of thrift and I'm noticing that I'm constantly on the look out for ways to save money. As well as cutting down how much I spend on the weekly shop I've also become obsessed with how to our minimise gas and electricity bills. Not only am I running a spreadsheet keeping track of how much gas and electricity we use every day, but I'm also regularly turning things off and reducing the heating by a degree or two. As well as saving a bit of money, it has also become obvious that doing little things like this and checking the meter daily ... read more
Ladybird Tuesday: Julius Caesar and Roman Britain
This morning I went to a meeting all about the new National Curriculum for primary schools that will come into force in September this year. One thing that I really hadn't realised until now was that the National Curriculum doesn't contain a full list of all the facts that the Government expect a child to learn in a specific school year, but instead it talks about all the skills that children are expected to learn in each subject, and it can then be left to individual schools to deliver a curriculum that is right for their school. This means that in history for example it's not ... read more
TASSIMO Green Tea Detox
January is very much the month when you try to watch what you eat and drink after all the excesses of Christmas. Well, it's supposed to be, but if you're like us the first half of the month was spent eating the incredible amount of chocolate that was left over after Christmas and this latter part was spent moaning about the lack of chocolate in the house once the Christmas supplies had run out! I therefore had to raise a smile when the January blogger challenge arrived from TASSIMO. This month's package contained a pack of their Twinings Green Tea and Mint T DISCs and a reminder ... read more