Family Games Night: Review of Exploding Kittens
I'm a proud member of the Asmodee UK Blogger Board Game Club and as a result, I get sent one game a month, appropriate to the age of my children to play and review. In April we have been looking at Exploding Kittens. Exploding Kittens is a card game with one pack of...
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Taking time for a Retreat
Have you ever been on a retreat? Would you take your children on one? Now my children are a little bit older we like to go on a special type of holiday, at least once a year. This is separate from the main family holiday where we go away and try to pack as much fun...
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Review of Nutribullet 1200
I received a Nutribullet 1200 from JD Williams for the purposes of completing this review. All opinions are my own... I've had a Nutribullet for just over 3 years now, and I have to say that I am hooked. I love my breakfast smoothies, I love whipping up salad...
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How do you do that kinky thing?
....or when not to trust your auto spell checker... The title of this blog is a tweet that I actually sent to someone that I had only just met on Twitter. I had been running Motivating Mum for a few months, blogging, updating the website and getting the hang of basic...
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Just one of those days
Did you ever have one of those days when nothing seemed to go right? A day that started wrong and just got worse and worse. I had one today. You don't need to know all the details, but it started with a 45 minute wait in a hospital outpatients queue only to be told...
read moreA normal week
This week is a normal week. "Nothing strange nor startling here!", as my Irish mother-in-law says to us most weeks when we phone her. A great expression, which comforts me when I hear it. The day she has strange or startling news, we are all in trouble... So this...
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Family Games Night: Review of Arokah and Pandemic
I am a very proud and happy member of the Blogger Board Game Club, which means that our family reviews one new board game per month. Over Christmas we were gifted with two lovely things; one game and one single player puzzle. Please read on to see what our geeky...
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Blogger Board Game Club: Review of Cortex
Cortex is the latest game that was sent to us by the Blogger Board Games Club. This looks like a perfect family after dinner game - for 2-6 people aged 8+ and with an average game lasting 15 minutes. I was really looking forward to testing this one with the family and...
read moreMumpreneur – who me?
So it seems that the term 'mumpreneur' has entered the English language officially, as it has been recognised by the Collins dictionary in its 11th edition. I'm sure a fair few of you are really happy about this, happy that the status which you use to define...
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Review and giveaway: TOAD Diaries
I was contacted by the lovely people at TOAD diaries. They produce a great range of personalised diaries and notebooks in all sizes and with plenty of customisation options. Are you a pen and paper person or do you like to keep your diary online? I do have a digital...
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