BLOGMAS #6 | Travel Safe


Me and John are both pretty fortunate that we learnt to drive, and have cars. It's incredibly rare we have to use public transport, in fact I don't remember the last time I got on a bus. But, that doesn't mean to say we wouldn't ever need to, Noah loves busses. Correction, Noah is infatuated with busses so I really do want to try to take a few more trips on them. However something that does worry me, especially after John has himself been involved in a car accident on a bus - driver had a heart attack at the wheel, scary stuff, is how do you keep your little one safe on board? They don't have seat belts, and if I'm honest very little in the way of safety procedures in place. As much as I'd like to think I would hold on, if you're in a serious collision, you have no control over anything. Given that if we got our local bus, it would travel on a 70mph A road, it's pretty darn scary to think you'd be letting your children ride that with absolutely no safety restraints. Then I think to taxis, we've often travelled abroad and as we weren't taking a car seat with us, found ourselves a little stuck as to how to get to the airport whilst also keeping Noah safe. Had we known about this wonder product then, it would have saved a lot of time and stress as I'd wouldn't of needed to worry.

BLOGMAS #5 | Santa V Parents



It's always a tricky question and one I see being posed more and more, year after year. How many of your Childrens presents should be from Santa, and how many from Parents? To be very honest, I truly don't think it matters and personally I randomly write love Santa on some and love Mummy and Daddy on others to the boys, they're not old enough to read yet, but when they are I'll still continue with that. From my own childhood, I vividly remember always having some presents under the tree in the build up to Christmas, and then the over Christmas Eve my parents would put another portion under from 'Santa', it worked well and definitely made it magical. I don't ever recall thinking Oh Santa got me more than Mummy and Daddy, and I really can't imagine many other children would be thinking that either.

BLOGMAS #4 | Dads Gift Guide


I find Men without a shadow of a doubt so much harder to buy for, which makes life hard because I am a boy mum and 90% of my family is men. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, so I've tried to come up with some gifts that I think any kind of man would like, I've not gone for a specific genre, just quite general as although I know John is a computer nerd, and my own Dad loves Aston Villa, I'm sure those things wont really fit in with most of the males in your lives (especially the Aston Villa - sorry Dad).