Our Family Summer Bucket List – 2019

Last year for the first time I wrote a Family Summer Bucket List, we wrote it out with little pictures to hang in the playroom and ticked off when we did the most exciting and the most ordinary of things and it was just lovely. This year I wasn’t planning on doing the same as we would have been away but as those plans have changed I feel like this is more important than ever!

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Last year for the first time I wrote a Family Summer Bucket List, we wrote it out with little pictures to hang in the playroom and ticked off when we did the most exciting and the most ordinary of things and it was just lovely. This year I wasn’t planning on doing the same as we would have been away but as those plans have changed I feel like this is more important than ever!

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A Magical Harry Potter Party

Harry Potter Party

Harry Potter Party

When I threw the girls a sports day themed un-birthday party in the summer I thought I had hit the jackpot. It was fun, easy to organise, inexpensive, inclusive, and around about a time when nothing much is going on (other than normal busy family life that is!) It was basically just really enjoyable for me which, let’s be honest, is the premise of lots of party planning….second to the child’s enjoyments obviously.

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Crazy Hair Day – The Doughnut

Crazy Hair Day

Crazy Hair Day

It was a wet dreary March afternoon when I felt like I had just about gotten over Christmas, both birthdays, February Half Term and World Book Day. Just settling in to the long term ahead wishing for some of this Spring sunshine to make life that little bit calmer and easier. When the familiar ping of the school parent app that has come to be instinctively met with an eye roll reminded me that with school, there is never a calm! Anyone else feel like there is literally always something to remember?!

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