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Top 10 Skylanders Imaginators Characters I’m excited for

October 14, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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Skylanders Imaginators has just been released and with it, the inclusion of many more Skylanders. There is also the Creation Crystals, allowing you to create your own custom Skylanders, a personal wish of mine since I began to play Skylanders all those years ago. So in order to celebrate I have compiled the 10 Skylanders, […]

Filed Under: Games for kids, Gifts and Gadgets, kids, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting, Teens Tagged With: collectibles, figures, gaming, Kids, skylanders, skylanders Imaginators, teens, toys, variants

Free Lego Toys with the Daily Mail

October 7, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Free Lego with the Daily Mail

It is that exciting time again when parents and grandparents are sent on a daily trek to their local WHSmith stores for the free Lego sets that come free with the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. A fantastic treat for kids young and old or perfect to collect and put away for Christmas as stocking […]

Filed Under: Gifts and Gadgets, kids, Lifestyle Parenting, Money Saving Tips, Teens Tagged With: Daily Mail, Daily Mail Lego 2016, Disney, gifts, Kids, LEGO, Money saving tips, Star Wars

Day out in London with Virgin Trains

September 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

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I am always travelling by train, especially to London, yet rarely get to see the sights of the city. I realised even though I travel to London my children had not taken a trip there since they were little and hardly remember seeing the great sights from our capital City. When Virgin asked if we’d like […]

Filed Under: Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Money Saving Tips, parenting, Teens, Travel Tagged With: days out, Family Days Out, London, sightseeing, Trains, Travel, Virgin trains

Our Favourite Build-A-Bear Workshop Memories

September 6, 2016 | 28 Comments

Our Favourite Build-A-Bear Workshop Memories

My son has always been a huge Teddy Bear fan, so I was very excited to hear Build-A-Bear Workshop are celebrating their favourite holiday National Teddy Bear Day in stores on September 9th With £5 teddy bears, all while helping children across the globe. They are also celebrating with  a National Teddy Bear Day Twitter […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, Gifts and Gadgets, kids, Leeds, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Money Saving Tips, parenting, Previous Competitions, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: Activities for kids, Build-A-Bear, competition, gifts, gifts for kids, giveaway, giveaways, kids toys, Money-Saving, National Teddy Bear Day, Teddy, toys, Win

Having family fun with McDonald’s #hellogoodtimes

August 30, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Having family fun with McDonald's #hellogoodtimes

Over the summer holidays, I was Invited by McDonald’s for a family fun day at Roundhay Park in Leeds as part of their summer #hellogoodtimes campaign. The sun was out and it was the perfect day to get my teens off their computers and outside for some fresh air and family fun. I met my […]

Filed Under: kids, Leeds, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: #Hellogoodtimes, Activities for kids, family activities, Family Days Out, McDonald's, summer

Sharing my love of Mr Men & Little Miss with my children

August 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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Growing up I was an avid reader and used to love bedtime when my Mum used to come in each night and read me a bedtime story, one of my favourites being the Mr Men and little Miss stories. Looking back I realise how important sharing this experience with my mum was for my education and development. […]

Filed Under: Gifts and Gadgets, kids, Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: bedtime story, books, childrens books, gifts for adults, gifts for kids, kids books, Little Miss, Mr Men, reading

Asda Christmas Show 2016

August 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

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In July every year I always have a few very special events to attend in London, so July in the world of a blogger is like Christmas has come early, yes that’s right we get to experience Christmas in July, crazy right! The supermarket I was very excited to see what they had in store […]

Filed Under: Fashion, Gifts and Gadgets, Interior, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Party Ideas, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: #AsdaXmas, Asda, christmas, Christmas 2016, clothing, food, homeware, Party food

Stress free Back to School shopping at Tesco

August 6, 2016 | 2 Comments

Stress free Back to School shopping at Tesco

As parents, we all know just how stressful the dreaded Back to School shopping can be. Sometimes shopping with the children with us, trying to remember the endless amount of uniform and stationery they need for their first day back at school and if you leave it too late the shops have sold out of the […]

Filed Under: Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Money Saving Tips, parenting, Teens Tagged With: back to school, Kids, kids fashion, Money-Saving, pre-teen to teen, sale, stationery, supermarket, teen, Teen Fashion, Tesco, Uniform, value

Support your Toddlers Nutritional Needs with SMA® PRO Toddler Milk

August 2, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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*Disclaimer – This is a Sponsored Post* When babies are born we try to protect them at all costs and we only want the very best for our new little bundle of joy. It seems Everyone has various advice to give and sometimes it’s hard to know what we should or shouldn’t be doing for the best. Did […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting Tagged With: baby, food groups, Nutrition, parenting, parenting advice, SMA PRO Toddler Milk, toddler

RNLI Creates Minecraft game to teach water safety to children

July 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment

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This Summer, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is launching year two of the charity’s Beach Builder Challenge using the interactive video game, Minecraft, which allows children to create and build virtual worlds. The Beach Builder Challenge, available to play from 1 August, has been created by the RNLI to teach children about beach and […]

Filed Under: Games for kids, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting, Teens, Travel Tagged With: charity, gaming, Minecraft, RNLI, safety, Water Safety

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