What we have learnt in our First year of blogging!

We have had our blog for a whole year now!! It's gone by so quickly! We haven't written as many blog posts as we wanted to, but we're doing the best we can. We started this blog as a bit of fun and went into it not really knowing an awful lot about it all. [...]

Three Discovery Centre

Three Discovery Centre

Did you know that Three offer free learning courses?? I didn't until a few weeks ago! Last Friday Freckled Faces numbers 1 and 2 were invited to take part in a vlogging class with Three Discovery.  This course was aimed at 7-12yr olds. They were keen on learning more and it will hopefully help them [...]

Easter Crafts – Mrs Mactivity

Easter Crafts – Mrs Mactivity

Easter is coming up and as we love doing arts and crafts I am always on the look out for ideas. Mrs Mactivity very kindly gifted us a year subscription to their website. I am so grateful for this! I love doing activities and arts and crafts with the kids, but life can get really [...]

Days Out for Easter Holidays in the North West

Days Out for Easter Holidays in the North West

It's the end of the spring term, which means 2 weeks off of school! We like to have some chill at home days, but we also like to have some days out. Here are a few ideas for days out. Knowsley Safari Park  Knowsley Safari Park have a discount offer on their website! Click here [...]

T-Shirts from Teether.co.uk

T-Shirts from Teether.co.uk

Our 4 Freckled Faces were very kindly gifted a t-shirt each from Teether.co.uk. When I opened them up and got them out of the packaging, I was really impressed with the quality. When the older 3 Freckled Faces got home from school and saw them - the first things they said were "wow, so cool!"  [...]

Mother’s Day Gift Giveaway

Mother’s Day Gift Giveaway

In the UK we celebrate Mother's Day in March. This year it's the 31st of March. Being a mother is truly a gift. Sometimes it can be a gift you want to give back....but mostly it's a gift that you treasure and that brings you so much joy! I am a firm believer of not [...]

Freckled Face Friday: Red Nose Day 2019

Today, in the UK at least, is Red Nose Day. We like Red Nose Day because we can help make a big difference to someone else's life. This year our school are doing bad or crazy hair day and we take £1 donation in to give to Comic Relief. They are also selling slush drinks [...]

World Book Day 2019

World Book Day 2019

For this years World Book Day, the school set a book for each year for the students to dress up from. Freckled Face number 1 had 'James and the Giant Peach' by Roald Dahl. Freckled Face number 2 had 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson and Freckled Face number 3 had 'Charlie Cooks Favourite [...]

Birthday Cakes

I recently made a cake for Freckled Face number 3's birthday. We were talking about all the cakes we had made over the years and thought we would share some with you. The pictures are not the best quality, but over the years we've had some fun! Let us know in the comments below what [...]

Chirk Castle

Chirk Castle

Recently we celebrated Dave's (my husband) birthday. In our family, you get to choose a family day out on (or the nearest Saturday to) your birthday. Dave decided that he wanted to go to Chirk Castle. It was a very good decision! It was such a great place! The surrounding views are stunning! Unfortunately there [...]