January, 2017 - Polly Jemima

Shaking up family meal time with Hello Fresh

When you’ve lots of mouths to feed multiple times a day, it’s easy to run out of inspiration. Trying to come up with healthy, tasty, not-too-expensive meals that will please...

Friday Feels

I’ve been meaning/hoping to bring back some kind of Friday favourites post for a while… not least because it’ll save all those things I love for myself, so I don’t...

Family = a team; family meetings, team rules and a shared vision

Now we’re settling into life as a family of five, I felt it was time to reconnect, to pull together as a team and figure out what it is we’re...

Adding ambience with lighting

It’s amazing what a difference lighting can make to the way that your home feels. Ceiling lights tend to be harsh, making the room bright but cold feeling. While they...

Doing it even when you think you can’t

It’s been another week of seeking solitude. Switching off from the world, reducing the noise of a life lived online. Stepping back from social media, so that I have headspace...

Making my house my own

January always feels like a good time to declutter and re-organise my home. When Christmas is packed away, and the weather makes you want to stay home more, I love...

Cooking with your kids

I LOVE baking with my kids {and I love even more having kids who are now big enough to bake all by themselves!!}. Ever since Lola was a tot, I’d...

Review | Find a Present

We’re big fans of celebrating here – be it a birthday, Christmas, a half-birthday – a ‘you did a good job today’ kinda day… we don’t really need much of...

Beginning where I am

Another early morning, unable to sleep, sitting on the back doorstep, breathing in the cold night air and trying to calm the rising panic that’s building inside of me. From...

Breastfeeding – celebrating two years

When I was expecting Beastie, one of the things I was most looking forward to was breastfeeding again. My breastfeeding journey with the girls wasn’t so easy, marred with PND,...

Fit to Dance with Disney!

You might remember back in December, we were invited to watch Disney on Ice presents Frozen at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. The kids had an amazing time, and it...

Make it or break it time

It’s late, the house is quiet. These late nights and early mornings are my favourite time to write, when the rest of the world is sleeping, and in the silence...

Some thoughts on our now

It’s almost 4pm here, sat on the sofa waiting for Lola to get home from school, and waiting to take Baya to her gym class in twenty minutes time. Beastie...

Recently Loved Books

I’ve been filling my evenings with books lately, there’s the occasional evening where I binge on some Gilmore Girls {as I’m massively late to that party and only just got to...

This Homeschooling Life #17

I’m a little late to posting this, as last week was the first Monday of the month.But better late than never, and I needed last week to get myself ready...

Month: January 2017