The Fern Grove

Made a batch of play dough today for my 18 month old son. My mom always made it for us in on pot over the stove and I always made it this way as well. However, that recipe has cream of tartar which is not something I have around now that I am a budget [...]

We decided it was time to start potty training. Actually I’ve been thinking about it the last couple of weeks since my son is starting to use a lot more words and want’s to do things himself I thought I might as well try harnessing his new found independence towards loosing the diapers! My son [...]

I just read a great article by “mom of many” Julie Cole called Just say No on the Yummy Mummy Club site. The title caught my attention as I scanned the latest posts on the site as I have recently had to come to terms with disciplining my toddler (18months). Before now he was as [...]

As I spring clean I am constantly distracted from but also determined to sort through and get rid of old baby clothes. Of course as I go through bins and come across my little one’s first set of overalls, cute sleepers and onsies I’m finding it hard to part with them. I’d love to save [...]

My son (now 18months) LOVES blueberries. He would eat them with every meal if I let him. Over the winter when it was harder to get them fresh he got hooked on the frozen ones. This by the way was a great food to sooth him during teething! He loved them so much that I [...]

Make a Smilebox postcard

We are very excited to announce the arrival of our new baby boy – David. He’s a healthy 8lbs 4.5oz. He’s the perfect baby and Dad and I are so thrilled to be new parents. Check out how cute he is!!!! You’ll have to forgive me if there aren’t too many new posts up for [...]

As you may have already read, we are expecting our first baby (a little boy) very shortly. In doing all kinds of research and preparing for this baby over the course of my pregnancy I decided very early on to go with cloth diapers. Though I knew I wanted to use cloth as apposed to [...]