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The team from Santa Maria were at Britmums Live handing out fajitas kits and challenging us to tell them how we eat fajitas at home.  We are huge fajitas fans in our house but we don't have a special secret recipe or an extra ingredient to add in for us the fun is the fajitas.

In our house fajitas mean family time.  Everything is placed in the middle of the table and we all help ourselves, even the girls.  This encourages the girls to be independent, to think about what they are eating and how much and teaches them to share.  

Fajitas are also fab because we can pack them full of peppers and onions and the girls eat them!  The girls like to roll up empty wrap to pretend they are pirates who 'I spy' the fajitas mixture.  They help themselves to the mixture and create the wraps themselves.  This helps with creativity and imagination.

While most people see the fajitas as simply a dinner in our household they are fab!

eldest and fajitas happy fajitas



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On our recent holiday to Portugal the girls took 4 new books with them and one of their favourite books. We read a book every night and so we wanted to take enough to cover all night time reading but not pack too many. Here are the books the girls took:

Hedgehugs - Horace and Hattiepillar

This book has a certain cuteness to it. Horace had Hattie are the best of friends who do everything together. You can't help but fall in love with them as you read the story. The illustrations are beautiful and it is such a gorgeous book to look at. The girls love the story, which follows the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly, with an added colourful twist. This is one of those books the girls like to cuddle up and listen to so is perfect for bed time

A gold star for George

The girls like this book as it helps them to see their reward chart, and why they get their stickers. They like George and the other characters in the book and seem to relate to them. Particularly with the girls at school and nursery they are beginning to see the importance and value of friendship. The book helps to reinforce the importance of helping others which is great for these early school years.

Pirates don't drive diggers

2 things the girls love are pirates and diggers, which makes this book perfect. The book has a lovely rhyme to the story which often grabs the attention of my girls. We can tell it was written by the same author as my youngest favourite book, as she has really taken to the story.

A box of socks

This is a follow on story from a scarf and a half. The illustrations are the same which adds continuity so the girls can relate to the characters. The story had the girls laughing as the characters get the wrong socks and they do look rather funny.

yuk said the yack

If you ever hear my youngest saying 'eggs, or peas or cheese' she is talking about yuk and yack. She simply loves this book and she talks often about Alfie as if he is her friend. It was a book we had to take with us on holiday, in fact she takes it pretty much everywhere.

the girls holiday reading

Thanks to Maverick books for sending the girls such lovely books for their holiday.

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 I picked my eldest up from school and she was in rather a giddy mood.  Having not had any play-dough for a while we set about making some using our recipe in this post.  We used our play-dough to help my daughter with her homework.  I had downloaded some play-dough mats from Twinkl and used these to practise her letters.


After we had practised our letters my little monster wanted to get creative.  So we had some fun creating our own monsters.


We moulded the play-dough into various shapes until we had one we liked to make a face.  I brought out the box of Mr Potato head shapes and some of our art supplies.  I then let my daughters imagination take over.  She used everything she could before coming up with Pirate Pom Pom Feathers.


Pirate Pom Pom feathers is a cheeky monster.  He likes to tickle with his tickling feathers and make you giggle with his Pom Pom cheeks.  He has a cheeky grin and big lips for lots of kissing.  Pirate Pom Pom feathers is lots of fun and loves to play.

I would love to see what monsters you can create.   There is a competition with mattress on line for children under 10 to create their own monster and you can check out the gallery here.

This day I love Monsters!

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Ahoy!  Today has been a wet yet fun day!  I took the girls to Pirate Island Adventure golf at Junction 32 Castleford.  It was the first time either of my girls had heard of golf, let alone played and I was excited to see what they would make of it.

Pirate Island Adventure golf is based at Junction 32 outlet just off M62 in Glasshoughton, Castleford.  It claims to be Yorkshire's biggest and best adventure golf experience and with a claim like this I was expecting a lot of fun.  

We set sail ready for our swashbuckling quest after gathering together our crew, also known as Grandma and Auntie Tina, and went in search of Pirate Island.

Pirate Island Adventure golf

Our boat landed at Junction 32 Castleford and we followed the signs for Pirate Island.  The girls immediately spotted the pirates and began to get very excited.

There are 2 18 holed courses and you can choose to do one or both.  We were assigned to skull cove as smugglers bay already had a few families playing on it.  I like this idea as it means there is less waiting for your turn and the girls could take their time without feeling the pressure of another family.

Pirate theme golf at Castleford

Before we could set a course for Skull Cove we first had an important decision to make, what colour ball would we each use?

Colourful golf balls

Once the decision had been made we could start our quest.

eldest playing golf

We faced cannons, barrels, giant Octopus and even a crocodile

crocodile on golf course

None of this could stop the girls from completing their quest.

the girls get into the swing of golfYoungest playing golf

There were lots of laughs and giggles and even the pouring rain could not stop a few holes in one

holes in one

The girls had so much fun and my eldest started to enjoy it more as the game progressed.  My youngest started to develop her own game, which you will see in the video I have made of our day.  It was great fun and lovely to see them try something new.

cannon on the golf course

We had such a fun family day together and we will be back to tackle Smugglers bay on another day.


This Day I love Pirates and Golf

Whilst we were provided with a complimentary game in exchange for a review, as you can see from the video the girls had a lot of fun.  All words and opinions are my own.

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We don't really watch a huge amount of TV, but when we do my daughter has very specific requests.  Sometimes its very hard to find the program she wants to watch.  Either its not scheduled at that time or I don't own the DVD.  I also simply cannot afford to buy all the DVDs to the programs she wants to watch.

TalkTalk Kids Boost is a great solution to this problem.  It currently costs £5 per month.  You select the Boost package and add it to your existing TalkTalk package.  You then have access to a fair few Kids Tv channels, including Disney and Nickelodeon, and also their on demand programs.  The On demand channel means I can find 99.9% of the time the program she wants to watch.  You need to keep the boost for a minimum of 1 month, but should you need it again later you can simply go back and add it on.

To help explain a little more I made the following video


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My eldest loves pirates. her current favourite bedtime stories involve pirates and if we play dress up she dresses up as a pirate.  I had the day off work today so after getting a few jobs done this morning the girls and I had an afternoon Pirate adventure.  

We began our pirate adventure by digging for treasure.  I put some porridge oats and rice into our messy play tub.  I used food colouring to dye some of the oats and rice black which I then made into crosses to mark the spot where I had buried the treasure.  The girls then set about uncovering the hidden treasure

found treasurediggin


what do i seehunting for more

Once we had found the pirate treasure we needed to set sail on the sea.  I used blue and green food colouring to dye some water and off we went

water playsplash


water

The girls really loved playing in the water, my youngest in particular loved splashing around.  I kept adding bubbles in to keep their interest in the water play.  



After all this treasure hunting the pirates soon became hungry, so we baked brownies

stiringmixture


licking bowllicking spoon


yumhands in

The girls and I had a lot of fun pretending to be pirates and hunting for treasure.  I think my youngest enjoyed licking the bowl clean after we made brownies.  A very busy, fun and messy day!

This day I love a messy pirate treasure hunt



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