Fab Mums

I had promised Luca we would bake a cake after school. A promise is a promise and anybody familiar with 5 year olds would know children don’t forget a promise. I picked him up from school and one of his friends invited him to go to his house, I don’t have to tell you he [...]

I love Julia Donaldson’s books, the way they are written in rhyme make it very easy for children to follow and after a few times you read them together they start to learn the lines helping them to exercise their memory. I find these books are great to build confidence in children beginning to read [...]

Finding Nemo was Luca’s favourite animated movie when he was two, so the enthusiastic new parents that we were we decided to surprise him by building him a Nemo cot. My husband drew the plans; we bought the wood and gave it to a DIY shop to cut to size. Assembling the bed was rather [...]

Inevitably when you move house there is a piece of furniture that doesn’t fit the new home, but cannot bring yourself to get rid of it. When we moved last summer I had an old pine bedside drawer which I didn’t know what to do with so I thought I would make a fun afternoon of [...]

If you are not yet a yoga fan, what a better time to start a class than during pregnancy, yoga is in fact renowned to be one of the best forms of exercise for women while they are carrying a child and it also helps with labour. You can then enjoy yoga with your baby [...]

Green Eggs and Ham and Cat in the Hat are two of my son’s favourite books and mine too. Dr Seuss books have helped many generations learning to read since the 1950s. The rhyme, rhythm and repetition make them easier to read and help to build confidence. Dr Seuss’ books are made of the so [...]

What a fantastic idea to carry your child without to break your back. The Hipseat is just a back supporting belt with an integral foam shelf where the child seats on so that you don’t have to twist your back to carry her on the hip. The seat is machine washable and comes in different [...]