Amelie recently turned 6. SIX. How quickly they grow up, sob sob sob. We have a rule here that big parties are only every other year, so this year I offered her a home party which she was fine with. I spent hours pinning really cute stuff on pinterest (if so inclined you can check out […]
Category Archives: 2016
16
Aug
Aug
Even though its a month since we had our annual pilgrimage back to the uk I thought I’d post up some photos. We only managed one day in London this trip back (booooooooooo) but we certainly made it a memorable one and I wanted to share our photos here for prosperity, and also to inspire […]
04
Jun
Jun
This weekend Amelie was supposed to be having her tonsils taken out, however on Thursday we were told that they couldn’t get her in blah blah blah and long story short its not happening now. We were left with an entirely free day and went up to my Dads for a BBQ yesterday which turned […]
07
Apr
Apr
As a last hurrah during the Easter holidays we visited Aillwee Caves in co.Clare (obvs the best county in Ireland). It was just under 2 hours from us here in the Midlands situated on the Wild Atlantic Way. So as you probably know by now I am ALL about the cafe facilities. My first observation […]
28
Mar
Mar
This is our third Easter holidays here in Irelands lovely Midlands. We have a few go-to places now for days out around Athlone so I’ve compiled this round up post/excuse to look through old photos to hopefully give some ideas of places to visit on one of the remaining Easter holiday days. Its 3 years […]
24
Mar
Mar
Happy Easter Holiday’s mamas!! If you are reading this from Ireland then we are one week down, you lucky UK people have only just broken up. Making resurrection cookies has been one of our Easter activities for about 3 years now and this is the first year I actually took photos and thought ‘hmmmn I […]
26
Feb
Feb
During the Midterm break we visited Belvedere House in Mullingar. Its just down the road and has been on our list of places to visit for ages and was really good. We were lucky with a sunny day but clouds were looming so we didn’t make it down to the lough, even after three years […]
09
Feb
Feb
Pancake Day!!! For most a day of a few pancakes as pudding or breakfast but here its a carefully planned event requiring military like organisation to prevent an all out war. Cora has been helping me this morning get everything ready for pancake mania when everyone is home from school. We fall firmly into two […]