A Day In A Parenting Blogger’s Life – Shinners and the Brood

First of all, tell me a bit about yourself. I’m a mum, wife and teacher. In that order! I live in Galway City with my lovely other half and our three little fabulous redheads, aged 6, 4 and 15 months.  I’m a secondary school teacher on my second year of career break.  I plan on going back to work next…

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Parents Horrified by Unhealthy Halloween Treats

Lurid orange lollies, ghoulish black cakes and sinister grey candy floss… the huge array of Halloween-inspired sugary treats loaded with artificial colourings and flavourings is a nightmare for parents according to an Organix survey – 81% feel huge pressure to buy their children these unhealthy sweets and think the food industry is taking advantage of the annual event to cash…

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A New Chapter: Moving House

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…

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A Day in a Parenting Blogger’s Life – The Mum Reviews

Welcome back to my blog series “A Day in a Parenting Blogger’s Life”. We are in week SEVEN already. Madness. I can’t believe how sucessful this series has become over the last few weeks. I have never created anything sucessful and my little blog is still trying to be seen out there, so this is a big thing for me…

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8 Disney Inspired Halloween Crafts

With preparation for Halloween truely under way for most people, I thought I share with you some craft ideas. A craft idea with a twist. Recently I was browsing my Facebook timeline, as you do. I came across a cool craft idea from the Disney page. This gave me the idea to do some research online for Disney inspired Halloween…

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