091/366 - Another party

Day 091/366
Another classmates birthday party today.  I was lovely to spend some time with just Roo.

Boo xxx

Saturday is caption day! - 31/03/12 #SatCap

Captions please...

I'm linking up to the fabulous Mammasaurus‘ Saturday is Caption Day Meme

Boo xxx

090/366 - Happy Easter Mama

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Tigger made me a lovely Easter picture at nursery today (with a little help I imagine).

Boo xxx

Conversations with a 5 year old - Palm tree

Upon picking Roo up from school this afternoon she was carrying a palm tree:

Me: What's that?

Roo: It's a palm tree, what do you think it is? scotch mist?

Enough said!

Boo xxx

iStylista - The Home Personal Shopper Experience & GIVEAWAY

After having my children I have noticed how much my body and its shape has changed.  With my changing body shape I am always unsure what clothes will suit me and flatter my body shape.  When I was asked to review iStylista I jumped at the chance.  The advice of a personal shopper but in the comfort of my own home.

Creating your 'Style Goddess' style guide couldn't be easier, just nine simple steps:


1. Select your body shape - It was great to see when you select a shape it comes up with a description so you can be sure you have selected the right shape for you.


2. Measurements - Upper body size, Lower body size, Dress size, Height, Chest size and Shoe size.


3. Face Shape - Description available again to ensure you have selected the right shape.


4. Colors - Eye, Hair & Skin colour


5. Lifestyle - Choose which category suits you best and how much you allow yourself to spend on fashion each month.


6. Additional Style Advices - This is where you add specifics about you, i.e. large hips & thighs etc.


7. Account Details - Registering your details.


8. Terms & Conditions - Agreeing to T&C's and choosing how often you want your new style guides emailed.


9. The End - Download your Style Goddess style guide.

What the Style Goddess style guide contains:

• Your body shape classification
• 10 essential body shape styling tips
• Your key clothing shapes
• Your best fabrics and patterns
• 3 styling tips to enhance your troublesome body parts
• Your best neutral colour palette
• Your best additional colour palette
• Colour styling tricks and tips
• Your ideal lifestyle capsule wardrobe and style secrets
• Your face shape classification and tips on how to accessorise successfully

So now I am ready to re-style my wardrobe I want to offer 10 readers the same opportunity...

GIVEAWAY

I have 10 voucher codes available for you to create your personalised Style Goddess style guide.  Simply complete the Rafflecopter form below and good luck:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Boo xxx

Disclosure Policy: I received a Style Goddess style guide for the purpose of this review, my thoughts are my own.

089/366 - By the sea

Day 089/366
It's days like today that I'm so happy I live just a 5 min walk from the sea

Boo xxx

088/366 - Sibling Love

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I've been trying to get a lovely photo of Roo and Tigger for a while, I finally got one...

Boo xxx

087/366 - Easter Bonnet

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Roo's Easter coffee morning at school today with their Easter bonnet parade.  Roo didn't win but she was still proud of her effort.

Boo xxx

086/366 - Easter Coffee Cakes

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Roo has an Easter Coffee morning at school tomorrow so we have spent the afternoon baking cakes.

Boo xxx

My @Slimavite Journey - Week 21 (#MUMenTUM)

Starting weight: 12st 2lb (31/10/11)

Weight: 11st 3lb (2lb loss)

What a difference a week can make.  I have managed to lose the 2lb's I gain last week and more importantly the bloating I was feeling has also gone.

I re-read last week post and giggled to myself, I really should have written:

'Hello my name is Boo, and I'm addicted to fizzy pop!'

Thankfully I have managed to ditch this and I think this why I don't feel as bloated as I did.  The first few days weren't nice with my body craving the sugar  and the caffeine, I felt really tired and head-achy.  I have however broken my makeshift bottle so really need to find a better solution (anyone have any recommendations?).

Warning, the following passage may include information about me you didn't want to know!

Something I have noticed this week is my change in body shape.  I have now lost my baby boobs.  I have never really had much of a chest so to speak and it was only when I became pregnant with Tigger that they increased substantially.  Whilst I enjoyed having a larger chest, this does come with its own problems.  Finding bras is a nightmare (I really feel for all you larger breasted ladies), you need to wear at least a size larger top than required and trying to find a comfortable sleeping position is very difficult.

So with my newly slimmed down boobs I went shopping for a new top to wear to an upcoming family wedding.  After trying on the size 14 and finding it too baggy I thought I'd try the size 12 (yes, I said size 12!).  To my amazement it fitted... woohoo! (if only my bum and hips would catch up!).

With my happiness of getting into a size 12 top, Mr Boo treated me to a new summer coat for Mother's Day in a size 12 too!

Apologies for the amount of times I have said size 12, but if can't guess I'm sooo happy about it!!!

Hope the rest of my Slimavite and MUMenTUM ladies have had a good week!

Boo xxx


Disclosure Policy: I am supplied with my Slimavite shakes and bite plan membership as part of my weightloss journey.  Slimavite do not supply with my prompts of what my posts should include, they are my own waffling thoughts.

REVIEW: I CAN Babble, Listen & Understand

 

When I was pregnant with Tigger I often thought about what he would like.  Roo is very talkative and has been from an early age.  If she needs/wants to say something she is not afraid to let the world know.  This got me thinking about little Tigger, would he be quiet because he couldn't get a word in or would he be twice as loud in order to he heard?

I like to think that he has landed somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.  Certainly when Roo is at school he babbles away to me much more and especially as I have now limited his dummy to sleeping only.  Saying this if he gets frustrated he can really make himself heard if need be.

With the four year age gap between Roo and Tigger is hard for me to remember exactly how many words Roo was saying at what age but I do feel that Tigger doesn't say as much as Roo did at this age.

When I was offered the chance to review two activity packs from I CAN, which aims to develop children's speaking, listening and understanding skills I jumped at the chance.

There are two activity packs available:

BABBLING BABIES

Babbling Babies is a beautifully illustrated activity pack to promote communication development of babies from birth to 18 months old. Learning to talk is the number one life skill for the 21st century. Communication is vital in making friends, letting people know how you feel and keeping you safe. Later, it helps in learning, knowing how to behave and getting on in school.

New babies are geared up to communicate, they do this when they let you know that they are hungry, uncomfortable or tired. How you respond to them will teach them the skills that they need to turn these cries into words then sentences over the next two years. Babbling Babies includes 30 inspiring activities for parents and adults to play and develop a baby’s communication skills.

The activities have been developed by practitioners with specialist experience in developing communication with under threes. Each activity has an idea for babies from birth to 6 months, 6 – 12 months and 12 – 18 months. The activities are focused on the following 5 areas:

1. Playing and interacting
2. Learning to Listen
3. Learning and understanding new words
4. Expressing myself
5. Exploring and developing

TODDLER TALK

Toddler Talk is a beautifully illustrated activity pack to promote communication development of toddlers from 18 months to 3 years old that now comes in a paperback and hardback edition.

Toddler Talk includes 35 inspiring activities on durable cards for parents and other adults to play with the toddler to develop the toddler's communication skills. The activities have been developed by practitioners with specialist experience in developing communication with under threes. The activities are focused on the following five areas:

1. Attention and Listening
2. Understanding what is said
3. Learning and using new words
4. Building sentences
5. Talking socially

Toddlers need the space and time to process sounds and to learn what they mean. Eventually, words build into sentences, into mini-conversations and this means that children will be able to get the best of their new learning environments.

Each pack some with a suggested 6 week activity plan, which I think is great. I am someone who likes routine, plan activities etc so for me this perfect.  Although for all you easy going parents you can simply flick through the activities and see which one takes your fancy.

The Babbling Babies activities are split into three age groups, which I think is fantastic.  As your little one grows and develops the activity also develops along with them.

I have only read through the Toddler Talk activity pack as Tigger is not quite ready for it just yet, so can't tell you how we got one.  However I have spotted some fun activities in there and will enjoy doing these in the summer months.

Available:

 

Hardback - £12.99 or Paperback - £6.99

(I would recommend the hardback copy as you can keep all the activity cards in a handy box)

More Info:

     

 

Boo xxx

Disclosure Policy: I received both activity packs for the purpose of this review.  My thoughts and opinions are my own (unless quoted).

WINNERS: My Way! Spinbrush #AltEaster

CONGRATULATIONS

Tracy Nixon

(@tracyknixon)

and

CONGRATULATIONS 

Kelly Williams

(@kelzw84)

I have emailed you both, please let me have your details and I'll get these sent out to you ASAP.

Boo xxx

MAGIX Photo Editing & GIVEAWAY

As many of you will know at the beginning of the year I signed up to two photo challenges - Mamatography and 366.  I love taking photos and nearly always have a camera with me wherever I go.  There is one side to photography that I do not like... editing!


Now this is not because I don't want to edit them, improve them or make the best of them... it's because I have never really been shown how best to do this.  So when the lovely people at MAGIX contacted me and asked if I would like to give their photo editing software a try out I jumped at the chance.

 

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 is the most flexible and time-saving all-in-one solution for impressive graphics: Powerfulimage editing, astounding illustration capabilities, professional design templates & extensive desktop publishing (DTP), all in a single intuitive program! Ideal for private and professional use: at home, in clubs, in academic institutions, and at work.

Your benefits:

• Optimize, edit & design photos

• Illustrate, draw & paint

• 3D design tool (e.g. for logos)

• Create multi-page documents, incl. text layout (e.g. brochures)

• Complete PDF workflow (import, creation, output)

• Create animations

• More than 3,000 professional design templates

I am still finding my way round all the different functions but can see that this will really improve my photo editing and hopefully will inspire me to be a little more creative with my photos.  I am really liking the scrapbook pages and I'm hoping to look into these a little further.

More Info:

           

GIVEAWAY

I am in the fortunate position to offer one lucky entrant a copy of the Photo & Graphic Designer download.  Simply complete the Rafflecopter form below to enter: (please press F5 if no form appears)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Boo xxx

Disclosure Policy: I received a download of Photo & Graphic Designer for the purpose of this review.  My thoughts and opinions are my own (unless quoted).

#PinterestParty - Heaven

What you do....

1. Log in or set up an account on Pinterest.
2. Then in the search bar type in the topic/theme for this week.
3. This weeks theme is HEAVEN.
4. Browse through the pictures until you find ONE picture that you like the most.
5. PIN IT onto your board (Pinterest Party - you may have to create one)
6. Blog about your choice of picture. Making sure you follow the RULES.
7. Link back to moors-mummy in your post
8. Return here and add your blog to the linky.
9. Have a look at the others and comment on their blogs and follow on Pinterest!
10. Enjoy it and come back next Sunday!

My Entry

Heaven means something different to everyone, it maybe shoes, handbags, chocolate.  With this in mind I went off searching Pinterest and came across the image below.  I loved this image, the stairway to heaven.  I love the colours, the way I wonder what is at the top of the stairs... I would love this made into a canvas.

(image credit)

Please check out my Pinterest Party board entry.

Boo xxx

Thank goodness for the NHS

We all moan about our NHS, myself included and I work for them! However I don't think we always appreciate how lucky we really are.

 

I was reading on another blog the other week about how in Ireland is costs so much money to attend the doctors and then get a prescription filled that she really had to think about whether or not it was a necessity to see a doctor (I'm really sorry I can't remember the name but if this sounds like your post please let me know and I'll edit).


I'm sure that I am not alone in thinking that if our children (and sometimes ourselves, although this is rare) are ill I wouldn't hesitate in ringing the doctors to book an appointment.  Maybe we have all become to reliant on the NHS and see it as our right to see a doctor and get medications whenever we feel we need to.

Should we think twice before picking up the phone and booking that appointment?

Have we spoken with the Pharmacist in the chemist to see if there is any over the counter medications we could try first?

This being said I know that the NHS is not perfect, I too have had my fair share of medical nightmares.  However I do still believe that having a NHS is good for our country and I wouldn't like to see us all having to have private healthcare insurance like you do in so many other countries.


I do believe that the NHS bracket should include eye tests for all and dental check ups including emergency dental treatment.

How do you feel about our NHS?

Do feel we are lucky or inflicted?



Boo xxx

I'm linking this post up with:

085/366 - Slides

Day 085/366
Playing hide and seek with daddy today, Roo decided to hide mid-way down a slide... cheeky monkey.

Boo xxx

#SilentSunday - 25/03/12

Boo xxx

084/366 - Fill & Dump Wagon

Day 084/366
Tigger thought that he was dump the bricks and climb in the wagon himself.

Boo xxx

WINNER: Foster Grant Children's Sunglasses #AltEaster

 


CONGRATULATIONS

Alice Hindley

(@aesop30)

I have emailed you, please let me have your details

Boo xxx