The Weekly Showcase 28-05-12
Phew what a scorcher!
It’s been a roasting hot week and I for one have enjoyed bundling the kiddies out into the garden after months of mainly being indoors. But with the lovely weather comes the lure of the great outdoors. Be it taking to the beach or sunning yourself in the garden, have you noticed a change to your blogging patterns in the past week? Have you noticed any changes in the blogging community?
I started blogging at the end of June last year and I must say that the month of July seemed rather desolate (as did December as Christmas rolled near) in blogland. Sure people still blogged, but the essential and fun family times were put first for many people. So that’s just a little ‘heads up’ that if come late June/July it suddenly feels that maybe you aren’t getting so many visits to your blog don’t stress – it’s just the way things go at this tie of year for many!
Tip of the week: Optimizing your sidebar. Here’s a link to an older post from Love New Blogs that is still relevant. It shows that sometimes it’s good to have a rummage in your sidebar to make sure you have the right bits in the best places…so here you go – ‘Arranging your sidebar wisely‘.
And so on to this weeks Weekly Showcase!
Badger Boo’s Daft Adventures
Don’t Cook Your Dog
Don’t Cook Your Dog sounds terrible doesn’t it?
But people are still leaving dogs in boiling hot cars!
We have just had three very hot days, with more to come over the weekend.
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Three under 3
Potty Mouth
I am obsessed with poo. And pee. And everything bottom-related really. Yes, we’re potty training. Well, that’s the idea anyway. Mostly, it’s just me mopping up puddles and maintaining a falsely cheery face while scooping up crap. Quite simply, it’s hell…
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Free Falling into 40
The Hairy Chronicles – Part 1…NOT BY THE HAIR OF YOUR CHINNY CHIN CHIN
I have a memory of my mother. She is sitting on the back step with a hand-held mirror and a pair of tweezers and is plucking hairs from her chin. As far as I was aware, my mother didn’t have a hairy chin. That was probably partly to do with the whole sitting on the step with tweezers, partly to do with the fact she was blonde and therefore it wasn’t that noticeable and partly to do with the fact I was a teenager and barely actually looked at her for any length of time of time.
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The Accidental Mogul
How does your garden grow…
Quite tongue in cheek, but quite desperate too.
My garden seriously needs weeding, but I’d rather catch up on some much needed sleep….. cue *deep, heavy, pained, sigh*
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Mixed Bag of All Sorts
When tongue-tie is more than being stuck for words
We found out, the hard way, after nearly 10 weeks of Andrew struggling to gain weight as a newborn, that Andrew was born with a tongue-tie. ‘What’s that?’, you might say, or ‘I’ve heard of it – doesn’t it just mean when you’re put on the spot and can’t come up with the words to say?’ Personally I used to associate the term ‘tongue-tied’ with the (slightly geeky and cult) comedy series Red Dwarf. Basically it means a tongue which is anchored to the floor of the mouth by a piece of skin called a frenulum.
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Mummy Drinks Tea
Getting All Jubilee-y
Only a week to go until our Street Party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and we’re getting:
1.Very busy
2.Very excited
3.Very red, white and blue
Our street is going to be awash with bunting and decor, and so today we started our onslaught of Jubilee related crafts that we have planned to snazz up our own house.
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The Ramblings of a Formerly Rock’n'Roll Mum
The Blog Baby
My blog is 2 months old today.
It is just starting to emit the occasional delightful giggle.
It might have noticed it has hands.
It can certainly see a little clearer.
But basically it still can’t do an awful lot.
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Team Lloyd
Mini Lloyd Dancing
Last week we were finally able to make it public knowledge that I am pregnant! It has been such a relief to be able to start talking about it as I had become a bit of a hermit. Avoiding friends, avoiding social gatherings and avoiding doing anything that meant I was spending too long away from a bathroom.
It was discussed by the hospital midwives while I was laying happily watching the IV fluids drip into me and wondering how I could take this stuff home with me so I never had to look at a drink ever again
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3 Children and It
Never say ‘never’
It has dawned on me recently, that quite by chance I have become something I never set out to be. We all have plans and goals for our lives and these are usually based around the way we have been brought up, the people who have come across our path or just simply the hopes and dreams that God instills in us at birth….
So what is it I have become?
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We received the most fantastic parcel today, which had been sent to the girls from Granny Tea. I know I’ve mentioned several times about this house’s current obsession with The Owl and The Pussycat, which Big Sis has been learning all about at school.
Shortly after the fly past over the Halton Grove memorial garden at the National Arboretum, as Lord Trenchard was speaking about RAF Halton and the apprentices and unveiling the information board in memory of dad, this heart appeared in the sky
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Dear Idiot I work with Dear Idiot that works in my department, Being an ar@#*ole like you are, is starting to get a little dull if I’m brutally honest. Having a miserable, scowly face is getting on my nerves and rushing around, arriving late to meetings looking serious and looking “oh so stressed and busy” doesn’t make me feel privileged to have you there. It doesn’t make you look busier than me It doesn’t make me think you are more important and it definitely doesn’t make me respect you.
We’ve finished round one of breakfast. I’ve been to collect a parcel from Royal Mail distribution centre. The girls are dressed. They’ve watched some Saturday morning TV. It’s still only 8am. What next? Take 2 paper plates. …..
Smaller boy is 14 months today, the same age small girl was when he was born. When I started this blog I wanted to create a record of my children’s lives, I have thousands of photographs but have been generally useless at completing baby books or noting milestones so each month I hope to capture a snapshot of small girl’s and smaller boy’s development and life.
A while back my eldest son came home telling me about his work at school. They’d been asked to draw a picture of their hero and explain why they’d chosen that person. He chose a computer game character (they were told that was ok) called Spyro. His explanation was that Spyro helps people. : )
Children can be so cute and clever sometimes… We were at the park feeding the ducks and out of nowhere my eldest daughter (who, may I add is only four and a half) said to me;
Hello! I am Queen Scamp and I have a little brother Ozzy. He is cool but sometimes he goes into my bedroom and finds my special box of super secret girls things. Today I found him eating my hair clip, this made me MAD. When I get mad I turn into a Minisaurus. RAWR! Hear me roar!
As you may already know, twitter is a new and confusing world for me. But whilst trying to understand it a bit more this afternoon I came across a tweet from @ymummyreally who was asking for links to blogs about funny things that kids have said or “out of the mouths of babes.” Joshua immediately sprung to mind. Oliver and I have high hopes for our first born son – consultant perhaps….. Maybe we need to scale down our hopes a little.
This is a question I am being asked at least once a day. So is he crawling yet? And the answer is still no. Whats more, I don’t expect this to change any time soon. There is nothing physically wrong with Dylan, he was sitting up and rolling at 5 months and is a perfectly happy and healthy 9 month old boy. He just hasn’t found anything worth moving for! I have tried a little light encouragement- putting toys and/or dangerous objects just out of reach to see if he is tempted but after a little stretch
