Happy Halloween!

How did your Halloween go? That’s it over for another year.  Did your kids enjoy trick or treat? We decided not to go trick or treating this year as first of Matthew didn’t have a costume and second we still had so many sweets left because we didn’t have that many kids calling. Like every year I did put up…

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Christmas clothes – Check

Yes, I know, it’s only the end of October. But now that the clocks have changed, it’s getting dark at 5pm and the weather becomes horrible I think it is ok to talk about Christmas clothes. As you know we spent our long weekend in Cork and because the shopping is really not great in Sligo I couldn’t resist but…

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Cork Trip Away – A mini holiday

A few weeks ago I blogged about some recommendation for a family getaway. We had ours this weekend. We went away to Cork mainly to go to Fota Wildlife Park. Its a bit of a journey from Sligo so we decided to stay 2 nights because it was a bank holiday weekend anyways. It’s 4 hours 30 mins in fact.…

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Halloween Preparation

Halloween is only 11 days away. Are you prepared yet? Have you bought all decorations? Have you stocked up on those “trick or treat” sweets? Have you found THE costume for your kids yet? You haven’t? Don’t worry, on today’s post I am sharing a few links with you to get all this. First of, the most important thing. What…

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Halloween Printables

While I was looking up tags etc for my friends 30th birthday this weekend, happening at the weekend I stumbled across these cute printables: http://www.iheartnaptime.net/free-printable-halloween-boxes/ http://www.iheartnaptime.net/halloween-trick-or-treat-free-printable/ Credits to go to I Heart Naptime. Perfect for Trick or Treating and also perfect when kids are calling over and you want to give them something special other than just grabbing sweets from…

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