10 Benefits of Gardening for the Family.

10 Benefits of Gardening. 1. Encourages healthy eating - eating healthy food is vital for brain and body development as we all know but it can be hard at times to get children to eat those fruits and veggies! By having them grow their own string beans, carrots and lettuce, they will have a sense...

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20 Benefits of Baking Soda!

Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, is widely used in baking. This is because it has leavening properties, meaning it causes dough to rise by producing carbon dioxide. Aside from cooking, baking soda has a variety of additional household uses and health benefits. Here are 20 benefits and uses of baking soda: 1. Treat heartburn Heartburn...

Alagille Syndrome – a mum shares her daughter’s brave experiences.

Today I spoke to another local mum named Sian whose eight year old daughter Lacey has also experienced a form of cleft lip and palate which has been challenging and a learning curve for this young family as not all disabilities are visual. It's great to learn about the various forms a cleft has and...

A book on separation – a child book review.

Summary Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent. Author Notes Author and illustrator, Marc Brown was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1946. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art. After...

Karcher Window Vac WV5 review

Attain smudge-free, super clean windows with the Kärcher WV 5 premium window vacuum, updated to give a more powerful clean. Windows are left clean and dry with a compact suction nozzle, along with cleaning cloth and detergent to ensure a sparkling finish. This premium cleaner runs on a battery allowing you to carry it around...

Pork Schnitzel chips!

A schnitzel is meat - usually thinned by pounding with a meat tenderizer, that is fried in some kind of oil or fat. The term is most commonly used to refer to meats coated with flour, beaten eggs and bread crumbs, and then fried (some variants such as Walliser Schnitzel are not breaded) Originating in...

Dental Hygiene and toothpaste review!

So toothpaste! We all use it! Twice a day and the NHS teeth cleaning guide says says:"Brush your teeth with fluoride toothpaste twice a day for about two minutes to help keep your teeth and mouth healthy. Plaque is a film of bacteria that coats your teeth if you don't brush them properly. It contributes...

Cleft lip and palate awareness.

Cleft lip and palate awareness week highlights something not widely spoke about and this blog post is inspired by not one but now two nephews with cleft lips and palates - the first is four years old and the second nephew on the way due August - a third was misdiagnosed and amazingly was born...

Poem for my second born baby.

You may be my second born baby but first born boy you will always be, No matter how big you grow my baby you will always be. How the years go by, Soon you'll be four, You will set your feet upon a new school walking through the door. How time can certainly fly. Oh,...