I can’t believe it has almost been four weeks since we moved into our new home. Tomorrow it will be four weeks to be exact. Time is surely flying. It will be Christmas before we know it. I like the fact we settled in well before Christmas. The least you want is stress about going through the Snag list. It…
Last weekend Chloe and I decided to explore County Kildare a bit more, our new home county. People who follow me on Instagram, might know that Chloe started walking around four weeks ago. She has been wearing soft shoes for the last three weeks which she absolutely loves. It is recommended to wait with proper shoes until they walked for…
I was so jealous of all the bloggers going to the pumpkin patch this month. I really wanted to take Matthew to one, too as I knew he would love it. So off I went on my phone to do a quick Google. Unfortunately unsuccessful. At the time we still lived in the old house. Until I saw a post…
We survived the induction week in creche this week. I didn’t think the kids would do as good as they did. I know kids can adapt well to change and to Chloe all she ever knew, was the minders. She would have been too small to create a friendship with one of the other toddlers. In terms of moving, she…
So some of you may have noticed that I have gone quiet on the blogging front. I managed to get into a blogging pattern to post daily which was nice. Then the house move got in the way. I have been off work since last week. Monday came and we started to pack all belongings into moving boxes. Some job. When…
Yesterday was my last day at work. I did not quit work and I wasn’t let go. No, we are moving location. It kind of makes me sad. We have discussed this big move for nearly two years now and I am 100% that we have made the right decision. As mentioned before hubby is working away three days every…
Nine days ago Chloe turned 20 months. An age where an average toddler would be flying around, jumping up and down. Not Chloe, she likes to take her time with walking. Matthew was not even 18 months old when he started taking his first steps. I would have thought Chloe would be around the same age. She has been a…
Last weekend was kind of a big deal to us. You see, my son Matthew has been using his dodie, some call it soother, others call it dummy, for over four years. To some mums this is quite a long time. To speech therapists and public health nurses it’s a no no. Each to their own. I personally wasn’t ready…
Following on from my recent post what requirements we have for our new family home, I’d like to share with you today, what you need to consider deciding when buying a new build house. I mentioned a few times lately that we are going to relocate. Mainly for work commitments. So right now we are in the middle of purchasing…
A while ago I was contacted by a lovely girl from a company called Cleverbooks. She offered me to review one of their new personalised kids books. I don’t say “no ” to educational and, even better, personalised books. So what do Cleverbooks do? Cleverbooks deliver educative stories that help parents to educate kids to understand and apply many useful things…
I am happy to announce my first ever blog series to you. There are several different blog series out there that it was actually hard to find one that doesn’t exist yet. I follow so many parenting bloggers everyday, read their posts etc. I wanted to know how their daily life is structured. For that reason I created a blog…
I have been reading about these questions on Facebook that are making their rounds. Questions you should ask your toddler. I thought I am going to mix it up a bit and put a few additional questions into it which Matthew can actually understand. I tried asking him certain questions and he didn’t seem to understand what they mean. He…
Well, that didn’t last long. It has just been about a month since a few friends and I went for afternoon tea in a local restaurant called Eala Bhan. Straight after that, we already planned our next afternoon tea next month. We all decided on Kilronan Castle. It is only a 30 minutes drive from Sligo so not too bad.…
This day ten years ago I started an adventure. An adventure I didn’t think would end up me starting a new life in a different country ten years later. When I was only 19 years of age, I decided to leave my home country Germany behind and learn the culture of another country. This was going to be Ireland. At home…
It happened this weekend. My eldest turned FOUR.. four years of age. I can’t believe it. The shortest four years for sure. He is now entering the pre-school year and next year he is going to big school. He is so not ready. I know every parent will say that. He is still my little baby no matter what but…
About 9 years ago a friend and I traveled from Dublin to London. We stayed in a hostel for a couple of days to go to a concert and do some little sightseeing around the city. Back then I was only in Ireland a year working as an Au Pair. This meant I had little money, so it was hard to…
Following on from my post about what places I still have to visit in Ireland, I thought I’d share with you which places I want to explore around the world. It’s hard to achieve this with two small children but luckily I have a great hubby who let’s me travel abroad once a year on my own.
I know, I know… I’m about 14 days behind with this post but with all the packing and preparation for our holiday 2 weeks ago, I didn’t get a chance to write a detailed post about Chloe’s milestone age reached. My little baby girl turned 18 months of age on the first day of this month. This makes her 1…
It has been just 2 days since we got back from our 10 day trip to Spain. This was a holiday I have been looking forward to the whole year. Mainly because of the hot weather, pool time, the beach and the warm evenings walking along the beach. We booked this holiday at the very beginning of this year. Originally…
This September marks 10 years of me living in Ireland. How time flies. I can’t believe I have lived on the Emerald Island for 10 whole years. Neither have I thought that I am going to actually stay here. The plan was to spend one year in a foreign country which in my case was Ireland. I had no intention…
