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 [...]

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 [...]

Freckled Face Friday – Interview with an 8 year old

Freckled Face Friday – Interview with an 8 year old

So some of you may have seen the other interviews I have done with the other 3 Freckled Faces. Interview with Freckled Face number 2 Interview with Freckled Face number 3 Interview with Freckled Face number 4 Here is how my little chat/interview with Freckled Face number 1 went... 1. What is your favourite thing [...]

What is someone with Cancer meant to look like?  — hellsbells1981’s Blog

I had to share my friends post. I'm so proud of and impressed by her! So I am 30 something living with a Cancer diagnosis since April 2018. I currently in active curative treatment, praying super hard that I am going to receive the outcome the medical professionals and everyone around me seem so positive [...]

Why we decided to not encourage our kids to write letters to Santa

Why we decided to not encourage our kids to write letters to Santa

Now I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot of feedback on this.....maybe even hate mail! BUT, I feel this is important and would like you to hear me out...😉 So, this year we decided that our 4 Freckled Faces were not going to write letters to Santa/Father Christmas, and list everything they would [...]

Christmas Classroom Door!

A few members if my extended family work in education. With that comes lots of stress and paperwork ....but also lots of moments of fun and creativity! I wanted to share with you the fun Christmas door decoration that one of my cousins and the rest of the team did! The kids in her class [...]

Quotes, Quotes and more Quotes!

We thought we would share a few of our favourite quotes with you.  We have chosen a couple of fun ones and a couple of inspiring/motivating ones. We hope you like them! Let us know (in the comments box below) which one is your favourite!