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About Last Night.....

Last night at the pub was just....well...I don't think I stopped laughing all evening.  Thanks to everyone who came out!!  Great night out!!  So much fun!!  So lovely to meet Melissa - even though meeting her was like meeting an old friend :)  Somehow meeting a fellow Brave Girl is like meeting a Sister - you know so much about each other.  And Melissa and I have walked the same path over recent years....we can relate to so much.  

I loved loved LOVED last night :)  Can't wait until the 28th :)  

xxx

Twelfth Night.....and it's over....

Wow. Twelfth Night....and with it, Journal Your Christmas comes to an end. I can't believe that 37 days can go so fast. My album is full of so many wonderful memories yet again. I am so grateful that we have been healthy and fortunate enough to enjoy the season as much as we have. We made the most of every moment. This morning my little boy summed it up for me. He woke up, hugged me and said "I love this family, it's so much fun" ♥ And THAT is what I want my children to remember ♥

Green Monsters!!!

Susannah and I are taking it in turns to make smoothies each morning.  Today Susie made this one! I want to encourage her to drink orange juice high in pulp, but she doesn't like it!!  So we added it to the smoothie instead of milk and she really liked it.  

This week we've been adding a lot of frozen berries instead of ice, bananas, mangoes etc etc...protein powder and of course the flax and spinach.  

Everybody has been drinking a lot of these and I think it's sooooo good for the kids to have a cup each day :)  Luckily they eat a lot of fruit and veg anyway - always having salads, apples, bananas vegetables etc etc...but this is a great way to get a LOT of good stuff in to them in a quick shot!!

I love vegetables but was never a fruit fan, so for me its great to have these again as it has upped my fruit intake again....there are instagram groups for pictures of them too so I'm taking part in those :)

As of today Instagram pictures instantly go into their own folders on Facebook!!!  At last!!!  yay!!  About time too!!!  :)  Makes life so much easier :)  

Triops

The Triops are growing so fast!!  We have moved them in to a bigger bowl now and they are doing great!  They are pretty dumb though and swim really fast doing somersaults and crashing head first into each other and in to things again and again!  They are very strange looking but fascinating to watch :)  Much better than sea monkeys!  I would definitely recommend these little creatures for kids and I will definitely get them again!  I would NOT follow the instructions on the box though, but would follow instructions online about how to care for them!!  Much better :)  

definitely fun little things :)  

My little boy turns seven :)

My Samsam turns seven this weekend.  I can hardly believe that my little boy is so old already!  The time has gone much too fast!  

This morning he sat on my bed and we had a big SERIOUS discussion about what it will be like to be seven.  How it is going to be different and what he thinks he is going to be like when he is seven.  It was so sweet to watch him talk away and pulling faces and using his hands and moving around on the bed as he chatted about all kinds of things - all kinds of crazy ideas - changing subject again and again.  I snapped away with my phone while he talked - which was one of the reasons I had started the conversation :)  

Afterwards we curled up and watched Ice Age 2 :)