Emma's Little World

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Rubbish Weather for Megan's Holy Communion #Countrykids

I am linking up with Fiona from Country Kids From Coombe Mill, which is all about getting outside with the kids and having fun! That is something we love doing here and try and get out on a regular basis.

Saturday 18th May 2013 Megan's Holy Communion

Playing outside and dodging showers!

Spiderman came to visit!

Funny face alert!

365 Project Week 20

I am taking part in the 365 photo challenge for 2013, linking in with The Boy And Me.

You can join in here.

I will add pictures each week.

365 Project

Week 20

Day 132
Ben was dressing up his otter teddy with hat, socks and underpants!

Day 133
My little Scooby Doo!

Day 134
Megan making cottage pie for tea.

Day 135
Play foam earrings.

Day 136
Playing TOGRTHER with the pirate ship!

Day 137
Getting ready and decorating the house for Megan's First Holy Communion.

Day 138
My beautiful Megan's First holy Communion.

Photo of the Week Week 20

Photo Of The Week

I am linking up with Louise from Team Lloyd for Photo Of The Week. Louise will post a linky on her blog for us to link our photos up. If you fancy joining in, click here.

It is an opportunity to capture a special moment from the whole week, something that happened, something that you saw or something that you want to remember.

Week 20

My little Scooby!

Improving our Garden Furniture

Now the summer is on its way (or so I really hope!), I have been thinking of updating some of our garden toys for Megan and Ben.

The things we have got have been brilliant and have lasted so well considering how much they have been used.
As we are quite outdoorsy people (just two weeks till our first camping trip - sooo excited!), we use the garden a lot and the kids can often be found out there, well wrapped up, in all weathers.
We have got the usual swing and climbing frame, plus cars, bikes, scooters and loads of other gardeny bits and bobs but lots of them are getting a bit young, certainly for Megan and Ben is beginning to outgrow them too.

So in my hunt I have come across http://www.allgardenfun.com/ which has got a huge range of garden equipment, including bikes, ride ons, games tables, slides, playhouses and loads more.

Lots of these things would be great for our garden and as an added bonus there a smaller bits that we could take camping with us, such as the games tables.

Another thing that caught my eye was the wooden hexagonal sand pit, Ben would LOVE that and it is really reasonable priced. Another thing I would love but we just don't have the space for would be a wooden swing set. They are great fun and if you have the space, they give hours of fun.

Megan would love a playhouse so that would be another possibility and with a choice of wooden or plastic there would definitely be something there for us.

There are lots of things there for us grown ups too. BBQs, garden furniture and sheds. We definitely need to look at some garden furniture as the stuff we have is quite old and faded now and our table doubles up as a potting table too!

The final thing that caught my eye were the pools. We need another one of those, as ours popped last year, and these would be perfect. Great sizes and great prices.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it will eventually gets warm enough to need one......

This is a collaborated post.

Book Review #7 #50BooksIn2013

This year I am linking up with Julie, Mama Owl for the #50books2013 challenge. You can link up here too, if you fancy a reading challenge.

Anyone who knows me will confirm I am an avid reader, Mr W used to complain when my holiday suitcase contained at least 14 books (one for everyday we were away!) Since having children though, it has been harder to maintain this hobby as I am usually too tired to read now!

So this will be a challenge, but a fun and hopefully relaxing one too!

Book 7

Adventures in Love, Life and Infertility By Leah Campbell

I have been following Leah's blog Single Infertile Female in Alaska for about 6 months now. As with all good blogs, when you start to follow one, you have a delve back to previous posts, to find out a bit more about the person blogging. Leah's story and her struggle with infertility and the routes she had taken to try to overcome this, was one I wanted to find out about, so when she published her book I was really pleased for her. I was even more excited when it was put on Amazon, free to download to your kindle for the weekend! Not having a kindle though (I am a Kobo girl!) I looked in the play store for my phone and found I could download a free kindle app! Problem solved! I downloaded the app, downloaded the book and was away.

This years challenge to read #50booksin2013 is going quite badly.
I am really glad I am doing the challenge as it is reminding me to take more time to read, which is one of my most favourite things to do, but I just don't have enough time. Family time obviously comes first, I have been working a bit more than usual and everything else, pick ups from different places, governor meetings, PTA meetings, blogging and housework have gotten in the way of me reading!
However, I made a real effort to read this, and I am so glad I found the time to do so. It gave me a real insight into what Leah has had to cope with medically, personally and in the desire to become a mum. She tells her story truthfully and without frills and that is what makes is such a good read.
Anyone who follows Leah on Twitter, Facebook or reads her blog will know that Leah has recently and very unexpectedly found herself to be a new mum to Cheeks. I am made up for her that her dream has come true, but so pleased that she published her book to highlight others who are going through the same thing, to give hope and to realise sometimes, without us realising it, our happy ever after is just around the corner.