I’ve been following some of my friends’ social media updates today about whether their child got their first choice of primary school and it took me right back to my absolute panic when I thought Dexter hadn’t got into his (and my) first choice, my old grammar school. You can read about that […]
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A Life Update & Brita Water Giveaway
What a week. I’ve been laid up in bed for most of it with a virus/food poisoning thing, I’m not quite sure what, but thankfully I’m finally on the mend … half a stone lighter too! Every cloud. Life goes on though and the boys still have to go to work and school […]
Back to School with BRITA
Dexter has really settled into big school now (#praisetheLord), and not only is he able to get home a lot earlier, but he’s coming home happy. I know it’s early days, but all the signs are positive. I think I may have mentioned before in another post that I didn’t have to […]
Child-free for a week – what now?
6.50am It’s the big day! We’ve been building up to Dexter going away for a week’s residential to the Isle of Wight with his school for six months now. I’ve been saving like mad and paying off a little bit each week and today’s the day. I’ve woken up early and beat the alarm – […]
Should children be allowed technology on school trips?
Dexter is lucky enough to be going on a school trip in June to the Isle of Wight for a week. Lucky to have a Mum like me who’ll cough up nearly £300 that is. (And you can see how much he loves his Mum in this photo!) His older brother […]
Brighton in April
You may have seen me nip off to Brighton at the end of the Easter holidays so I thought I’d let you know what we got up to. Or, if you’d prefer, you can watch the video I made HERE. Brighton is one of my happy places. It’s where I chose to […]
Leavers Hoodies Review
If I had a list of things that I didn’t really need in my life, a bespoke hoody with my blog’s logo printed on it would probably be at the top of that list. It’s not something that I need or ever thought I needed and yet … I’m in love with it! […]
Secondary School Decision
After yesterday’s blog post, I thought it would be a good idea to do a follow-up post today. We didn’t get our first choice of secondary school. Nor did we get our second choice. We got our third choice. I am still struggling to process it. I know first hand how […]
Will We Get Our No.1 Secondary School Choice?
It is very stressful at Chez Sutton today and it’s only 11am. Fellow parents of 10 and 11-year-olds will know the pain I’m going through today because we find out whether we were successful in our number one choice of secondary school for Dexter. There is only one school I want him to go […]
5 Tips for Cycling with Children
You may have seen me mention recently that Dexter and I are now cycling to school. It started off as a necessity because he was doing his Cycling Proficiency Test, but now I just think it’s the perfect way to get my arse into gear. Pardon the pun. I’ve been a member […]