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Small Hands Creating Hope - Butterflies

Rainy Day Mum

Thursday, 17th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

Small Hands Creating Hope One of the things that I never realised when I started blogging last June was the amazing support network behind the scenes of the blogs and the virtual friendships and collaborations that you can make. When MaryAnne from Mama Smiles told us about her wish to help raise funds for cancer research in celebration of her 32 years since being diagnosed with cancer as a child it was something that I wanted to be involved in.

With an amazing selection of bloggers from around the world our children have been creating projects to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society (ACS) by [...]

Explore Outdoors

Summer's on it's way

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Wednesday, 9th of May 2012 at 01:00:00 AM

Marine Conservation Society Logo

The Marine Conservation Society

You may have heard me talk about my previous life as a Marine Biologist before, this part of my life is still very important to me and the connections with nature that I have from my time studying, and living that lifestyle I want to pass onto J and T. One of the many jobs that I did to get the experience needed to pursue that career was some work with the Environment Agency on their yearly beach surveys looking at the cleanliness of the beaches that I was assigned.

I had an area [...]

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10 blogs for Babies

Rainy Day Mum

Saturday, 5th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

Last week I shared 10 amazing blogs for Toddlers… this week it’s the turn of the babies. Here are 10 fabulous blogs for our most precious little ones.

10 go to blogs for ideas and activities for babies

Playing with babies is one of the things that find most difficult so it is always inspiring to find people that do and have a huge range of ideas for activities to do with Babies of all ages.

First off a British Blog Nurturestore with a series of Superbaby Play which is great getting down on level [...]

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Baby Talk - Signing

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Saturday, 21st of April 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

I’m handing over today to a real life friend Helen who is a TinyTalk Teacher and my go to source for Baby Signing.

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Tiny Talk

When Rainy Day Mummy asked me to write a piece for her blog I was stumped. I got writers block. How could I sum up the passion, the excitement, the joy and wonder of what I do, the pleasure I get from my work and why I think it is so important?. So here goes:

Hi I’m Helen and I am a TinyTalk [...]

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Being true to yourself

Rainy Day Mum

Monday, 16th of April 2012 at 10:00:00 AM

I have debated within myself whether to write this post or not – it’s a bit off tangent than my normal crafts, activities, books and play activities but it’s something that I feel quite passionate about and I imagine as a parent I’m not the only one. Being true to yourself – what do I mean, well being the parent that I want to be and not what someone or I think everyone thinks that I should be or even the person that I want to be.

Being true to yourself or becoming the parent that you want to be Three years [...]

Gardening

Introducing - Growing Green-Fingered Kids

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Monday, 19th of March 2012 at 12:00:00 PM

Growing Green-Fingered Kids Tis’ that Season – to get out doors and start growing stuff. For us gardening is really important, it connects us with nature plus we have a very large garden so is essential otherwise the weeds take over and even the wildlife stay away.

Before Garden Transformation

Our vegetable garden

Over the winter you will have read about us exploring outside at least once a week and as the weather warms up we will be doing more including lots of crafts, messy play and activities outside but that could equally be done [...]