For the time being our weeks have taken on a distinctly domestic flavour. We’re preparing for our next trip in October, so laying low for the moment, saving up and living frugally. But even so, friends need to be seen, family visited and life must continue, so the odd slow at home day is always a pleasure.
- 1o'clock club
- 1st
- 200th post
- 365 Project
- Abel & Cole
- activism
- admin
- advice
- alternative health
- amber
- animals
- apple
- Around Europe
- art
- Awards
- away
- baby
- Baby Led Weaning
- baby products
- baby protection
- baby related products
- babyshower
- baby wearing
- Babywearing
- Bach Rescue Remedy
- bad days
- badges
- baking
- bamboo
- bathroom
- Beach huts
- best for baby
- Better for Babies
- birth
- birthday
- Bloggers Living Naturally and Consciously
- Blogging
- Bloging
- Bonding
- book
- BPA
- bra
- bread
- breast
- Breastfeeding
- breastfeeding; campaign;
- breastmilk
- breast pump
- Bronchitis
- budget
- business
- Cake
- campaign
- camping
- camping with a baby
- Cards
- Celebrations
- Challenges
- Changes
- childbirth
- Child Friendly
- child friendly recipes
- child health
- childhood
- children
- Chistmas
- chocolate
- chocolate cake
- christening
- Christmas
- cloth
- clothes
- Cloth Nappies
- co-sleeping
- conference
- cooking
- cover
- Crackers
- crafting
- creativity
- crying baby
- cry it out
- culture
- cupcakes
- dad
- daddy
- dads
- dangers
- daughter
- Day Out
- death
- decoration
- decorations
- desert
- detox
- development
- diapers
- difficult
- dinnerpar
- disaster
- discount
- documents
- domestics
- doula
- Dreaming of her future
- East Dulwich
- Easter
- eco living
- eczema
- edible plants
- elimination communication
- emotions
- empowering
- England
- environmental
- equipment
- Europe
- event
- Exercise
- expanding horizons
- expressing
- F1
- family
- family history
- father
- fatherhood
- Fear
- fever
- Finger Food
- Flowers
- Food
- Food Recipes
- food recipes; food; recipes; breastfeeding; breastmilk
- foraging
- foreign
- formula
- Friends
- frustration
- Gifts
- Giveaway
- goals
- godparents
- Grand Prix
- growing
- growth spurt
- guest post
- guidance
- Haiti
- hand made gifts
- hard
- healing
- health
- healthy
- helping
- herbal
- herbal medicine
- herbs
- holiday
- Holidays
- homebirth
- hospital
- hot chocolate
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- i am woman
- invitations
- jewellery
- kids
- kindness
- kisses
- learning
- legal right
- letters to Kyra
- letter to my daughter
- life in general
- London
- Looking back
- loss
- love
- manners
- march
- medicine
- memories
- midwife
- milk
- Mommytography
- money saving
- monkey
- mother
- Motherhood
- mothering
- music
- nappies
- nappy bag
- nappy rash
- natural
- Natural Birth
- natural healing
- Natural Parenting Blogs
- nature
- Night Out
- nursing in public
- officials
- opera
- organic
- Out and About
- outdoors
- outing
- pain
- papercraft
- paracetamol
- parenting methods
- park
- Parks
- party
- photographs
- Photography
- photos
- pictures
- plants
- play
- point of view
- poo
- potty
- potty learning
- Prague
- pregnancy
- prepare ahead
- project
- protectivenes
- Quality time
- Rain
- Reading
- recipe
- recycling
- Red Tape
- relationship
- relaxation
- Resolutions
- resources
- respect
- review
- Reviews
- Role model
- safety
- SAHM
- salad
- saving
- savings
- science museum
- seminar
- sexual offences
- sharing the love
- shoes
- shopping
- Sickness
- SIDS
- sleep
- sleepless nights
- Sleep Training
- sling
- smile
- snow
- south africa
- special offer
- Spring
- stay at home
- stranger danger
- struggle
- summer recipes
- sun cream
- support
- sustainable living
- sweet
- sweets
- sweet tooth
- swimming
- technorati
- Teething
- thank you
- time
- toilet
- toilet learning
- toilet training
- tommee tippee
- Tonsilitis
- toothache
- Top 10
- toys
- training cups
- travel
- traveling
- traveling with a baby
- upbringing
- valentines
- Vitamin C
- voice
- walk
- waterbirth
- week in pictures
- with a toddler
- workshop
- Yoga
- zoo
365-217 to 365-223 A Week in Pictures
I have been a terrible photographer this week, and I have a list of excuses for it, but I won’t bore you with those. Instead, I’ll just skip over the days that have faded from memory (there was a lot of going through cupboards, going through boxes and listing things on freecycle!) and show you the highlights that I did photograph.
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Day 210 – Water Play
This park is quite near our house and for a South East London park, it is lovely. In the summer it’s also a water park. The kids definitely love it! I love that it has so many different features. I know I’d have loved it as a child.
365-196 to 365-202 A Week in Pictures
Week seven of our travels, and it’s all coming to a rapid end. We can feel the road weariness slowly inveloping us – strange having just spent a week relaxing like we’ve not done on any other holiday. We’ve seen great things this week and learned a lot about Western preconceptions about things we really know nothing or little about.
365-189 to 365-195 A Week in Pictures
We’ve spent this week going from one beautiful place to the next. We are so blessed in this time of our lives.
365-182 to 365-188 A Week in Pictures
We’re still out and about this week – or rather setting out for out and about. We’re camping on route to Croatia for a week, then spending a week there. It should make for some beautiful stop overs and fantastic experiences! I also had the opportunity, before we left, to meet some of my blogging friends at Cybermummy, a conference in London for mum and dad bloggers.
365-175 to 365-181 A Week in Pictures
We have had another fantastic week of travel and visitors. We have been so blessed, and my Dad, Mom and Brother deserve a huge thank you for making all this possible for us. We could not have managed this holiday for ourselves at this time, much less given my gran such an amazing time. My gran has been on my ‘best friend’ list since I was a child. She’s never been one of those cuddly, spoiling us kind of grans, but she has always been fair and just and she’s always been there for me, been my advocate and really ‘seen’ me.
There are so many ways where we are so different, but I’ve always felt like I could go to her with anything I needed to. Having this time to share with her, and seeing her bond with my daughter and being able to show her the land her own grandmother walked on, the town she lived and so on has meant more to me than I can ever relay in words. Thank you Mom, Dad & Ziech for making this possible.
365 – 168 to 365 – 174 A Week in Pictures
Another week as we travel around, staying local now. By local I mean staying in the UK. This is precious time, my gran tells me about our family, our history, her family, her childhood. Things I’ve never heard. Things I’ll forget again until I need to remember one day. I learn her favourite song. What she wants played at her funeral. I learn about her marriage to a grandfather I never knew. Precious moments, while she whispers to my daughter, when she pretends to be the South Easter (wind), blowing in her face, making her giggle.
365-161 to 365-167 A Week in Pictures
We’ve continued on with our travels this week, showing our family around the country. We’ve been to a new place and returned to some familiar places too.
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We are just being blessed beyond measure. My brother and my grandmother are here visiting us and we are going all over the country and continent at the moment. It’s been such an amazing time and there have been some fantastic moments that I will treasure for ever. With a family as far flung as my own, these moments are way too few and far between.






