Natural History Museum

 Today we went to the Natural History Museum in London. We travelled on a train which as you can see from the photo above, was treat in itself!!

 Now i have been there before a few times. Once when I won £10,000 for our school in a competition with Woolworths. The prize giving was in one of the rooms in the Natural History Museum and we got to wander around afterwards. The money (which i am still incredibly proud of winning!) went to improve our playground and the "fun run" is still there including all of the parts that I helped to chose and design. Infact now my children play on it! Ha. funny how life pans out.
Anyway as i was saying, i have been there a few times but never fully appreciated the architecture of the building. Perhaps that is a 'getting older' thing but my goodness it is amazing! We qued to get in this morning and while we were outside I noticed all of the animals in the building itself. Amazing. Fish, Dinosaurs, bears, eagles. Just Stunning.

What struck me was that it was not only the imposing outside of the building that was so beautifully carved, But that every part of the building and the architecture was adorned in these amazing carvings. Every tower and column. It was just everywhere that i turned. Stunning. Weren't those victorians clever. we travelled to the museum on aVictorian train line, took a victorian tube to the museum. Incredible really.

 So we touched and explored almost all of the Museum.

 Stood in wonder at the size of some of the animals we saw....

 Admired the owls (Lucy loves owls!)...

 Tried to explain some quite complex ideas and facts to an interested little girl...

 saw the dinosaurs... got scared by the dinosaurs!...

But by far the thing that the girls loved the most was the Blue whale. In fact this is what prompted me to take them to the natural history museum. A few months ago Emily was reading a book about whales and i explained to her that a whale could be as big as a house. This was a lot to take in for a little one and has puzzled her for a while, even to the extent of asking other people if this were really true, was mummy fibbing! Today she saw the true extent of the wonder of mother nature. 'Wow' were the words on her lips.

catch up

It has been a while since i have been on here. Really i have no one specific excuse to i wont pad this out! HA! I have been busy - there that should do it! The last month or so has flown by and we are now well and truely settling in for the Autumn. Today i wanted to catch up as the title suggests as i can feel the blog posts coming over the next few weeks and i didnt want to be held back by me being behind. Part of my problem is not feeling like this space is good enough. I read some truely inspirational blogs where i find peace in my frazzled mind and actually MY blog does not provide me with that peace. It is a place of "could do better" or "almost achieving the life i would like" What i really should do is treasure it for what it is, a place for now. For what we are achieving now and that should be enough!

  Here we are at a nearby beach on one of the last days of summer. beautiful

 Here they are at our dear friends little girl's 4th birthday. Fancy dress of course. Emily was tinkerbell and Lucy wanted to be a pirate!! The magic man was amazing. so good with the children and simple in his approach

 We really love rainbows in our house.

 Last Sunday we had a home day and the girls wanted to do some sewing like mummy. I found them both a loom and helped Lucy with her design. An owl of course! Emily drew hers herself - a butterfly (orange and black) And there they sat for over an hour sewing next to their mama!!! Lucy was incredibly good at it as was emily and it was just so heart warming to see! yay my babies!!

These photos were taken today as we went out for a short trip this morning. First we stopped to collect conkers. Daddy has instructions to drill holes in some tomorrow to make a game of conkers and perhaps some conker necklaces. We then went on search of some pretty leaves in a local woods. We plan to dip these in bees wax as it preserves the colour aparently.

So i think that is us up to date now and i shall endevour to keep up from now on.

p.s my pinterest has grown quite considerably in recent months ;)

things for sale

Here are a few things that i have for sale on the green parent forum

Girls 3-4 Lightweight Jacket - TU )sainsbury's. Fleece lined. £4 inc postage

Girls 1-2years (although dd1 has only just stopped wearing it and she is 3) Marks and Spensers. lined jacket. £4 inc postage

 Next 12- 18mths (although dd2 was wearing this til 2 and half) Peppa Pig Water proof Jacket.
£4 inc postage

Cherokee (tesco) Gilet 12- 18mths (again dd2 has only just stopped wearing this at 3!) with hood. £4 inc postage

 Frugi fluffy coat. 2-3 yrs Purple with cream fluffy inside. poppers to fasten. Reversible too!! £6 inc postage.

Size 5 Monsoon gorgeous shoes. only worn once for a wedding. £4 in postage

 £4 inc postage Natal Hypnotherapy

No cry sleep solution. In good condition. £ 3 inc postage

 Motherease wrap XL £3 inc postage

Jo Jo Maman Bebe Organic swaddle wrap. It has a lift down flap for the babies toes and then wraps around baby. Has beautiful teddy velcro and a heart on the back to fasten to £4 inc postage

 Tots Bots wrap and nappy. Size 1 £4 inc postage.

little Kiwi nappy small. Needs clip things to fasten. I have 2 of these - free after postage.

 Motherease nappy with elastic up sides and poppers (cant think of the name of this type!!) with Motherease Rikki Medium. £4 inc postage

Little Kiwi wrap and nappy size Small. Nappy requires clippy fastening things. £4 inc postage

Mixture of fleece, bamboo and hemp liners. 5 in total. £3 inc postage

 5 cotton liners and 2 mother ease liners £3 inc postage

Little lamb Size 2 nappy and wrap £4 inc postage

 Tots bots Size 2 Pack. 5 nappies and one wrap. Made from Bamboo. £12 inc postage

Ellas House XL nappy and motherease wrap XL. £4 inc postage.

Any questions please ask!! x