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Meal Planning Monday

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Meal Planning Monday

Ahhhh another week and another Meal Planning post!

I do love sitting down to write my meal plan, but this week I struggled.  I couldn’t think of anything at all to cook. Everything that came into  my head I talked myself out of and in the end I gave up.  So here it is, not very imaginative or interesting, but it is a plan, and all good things start with a plan don’t they?

Monday – Lentil Bolognese – you can see my recipe for this here

Tuesday – Jacket potatoes with tuna, I am loving Tuna at the moment so I am very much looking forward to this!

Wednesday – Egg chips and beans (just because!)

Thursday – Rice and vegetables

Friday – Vegetable pasta bake

So there it is, hopefully next week I will be able to come up with some more imaginative ideas for us to eat!

Have a great week everyone! Head over to Mrs M’s to check out the other entries.

Saturday is Caption Day

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Baby Annabelle has been a massive hit here since Christmas, in fact we are seriously considering going out and buying a second one so the kids have one each. Poor Molly doesn’t get a look in, Alfie takes his “HannahBelle” everywhere, on the school run, to the park, she sits next to him at dinner.  The fact that Molly had gone on and on last year and was desperate for Baby Annabelle doesn’t come into it, Alfie is in love and no one else can play with his dolly.
On a very rare occasion this week Molly was allowed to play with her doll, in fact they played so nicely and quietly together with her that I managed to catch up on some work I had been wanting to do.  I should have known, nicely and quietly don’t go together when my kids are involved! Here is what I found when I went to investigate!
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The kids found it VERY funny, their little giggles were adorable, but Poor “HannahBelle!” My immediate thought when I saw her was “Saturday is Caption Day!”
So give me your best captions pretty please?!
Have a great weekend everyone and don’t forget to visit the home of the #SatCap Mammasaurus to check out the other great entries this week.

A Woodland Adventure

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The UK’s leading woodland conservation charity, the Woodland Trust, is partnering with the popular Nick Jr. series, Poppy Cat, to launch an outdoor campaign for pre-schoolers with an ‘adventure’ platform for its VisitWoods website for one month from 19th April 2013

VisitWoods.org.uk hosts information on over 11,000 UK woods that are open to the public. Poppy Cat content has been created for the site with downloadable activity materials focusing on ‘Mystery Trail Adventures’ – available for children aged 2-6 years to engage them during family outings to the woods.

Simone Ashley-Norman, Woodland Trust, says, “You are never too young to visit a wood and our partnership with Poppy Cat will enable families across the country to get outdoors this spring and make the most of our beautiful native woodlands. VisitWoods.org.uk makes finding and visiting woods as straightforward as possible, for all ages and abilities, so there’s no excuse to stay indoors!”

We were sent a fantastic Poppy Cat adventure pack and headed off into our local woods to do some exploring! With a range of exciting activities to do whist we explored the kids had plenty to keep them occupied!

I was really surprised when I searched on the Visit Woods website how many there were in my local area that we could visit.  We decided to visit Irchester Country park which is close to us and one of our favourite places to visit with the children.  It is a beautiful woodland setting and you could get lost wandering around for hours!  So we packed up our Poppy Cat Adventure pack and off we went.

The kids had great fun exploring the great outdoors and completing the activity pack. Both of mine love being outdoors and would have happily stayed in the woods all day and probably night if they could. poppy_cat_adventure_2

All ready for an adventure!

There is so much to explore and do and the Adventure Pack was a great way to get the kids interested in everything around them.  We searched for bugs and climbed mountains (ok so not quite mountains but to the kids they were!) We explored everything but most importantly of all we had fun!

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After such a long cold winter the sun is finally out so why not head to VisitWoods.org.uk get your pack and get exploring! 

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To support the Woodland Trust partnership and allow Poppy Cat fans to continue the adventure at home, Nick Jr. will air nature-themed Poppy Cat episodes every day from the 18th April at 7.15pm for two weeks.  There will also be campaign content at nickjr.co.uk alongside Poppy Cat clips, games and activities.

Saturday is Caption Day

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It has been forever since I took part with Saturday is Caption day hosted by the lovely Mammasaurus. Following my post earlier in the week about getting back to blogging, now is definitely the time to get back into the swing of things.  I love reading all the captions it always makes me smile and Saturday’s just are not the same without going through the other entries thinking of captions for them too! So here it is, my entry for this weeks #Satcap
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Don’t forget to go and see the other entries too! Have a great weekend everyone!