Wow. What a week it's been!! Anxiety is really kicking my @$$, it's horrible. I have new tablets now though, I've taken them before and they helped a lot. So I hope they will help again. I hate anxiety, it really isn't nice. I have a lot of things going on in my personal life, (which I'd rather not talk about on a public blog). So thinking of the positives will really help me this week.

1) The kids went back to school this week and although I really miss them and we had a fab half term, I am glad to be getting back into the school routine. They all have lots of exciting things coming up this term, before they break up for summer in July.

2) Book - Reading seems to really help me relax and chill out. I've read some lovely books recently. I can't wait for 'The fault in our stars' movie, it's gonna be sad though. 

3) I'm glad that tomorrow is Friday. Friday's cheer me up, hehe. I love the weekends, I'm hoping to have a productive weekend this weekend. I need to blitz upstairs and what not.

Sarah xXx

D is for... Dark!

A dark sky with a candle lantern. A candle lantern in memory of someone very special

I love the night sky, I often sit outside on the door step just gazing up at the sky! It's just so peaceful and relaxing, don't you think?! Summer evenings are the best, just as it's getting dark wit ha slight breeze. So peaceful and relaxing.


Sarah xXx

The other week I wrote about how the boys have made progress at school & how I went to parents evening. Well today I wanted to talk about Ellie and how well she's been progressing in year one.

Ellie's reading has come a long SO well! She can read all of her sight words now and all of her reading book on her own.

Ellie reading her reading book. (She looks so tired in this pic!)

This time last year, she could only regonise letters and sound out two letter words "it" "is" etc. Now she can read words like "children" and "happen". I am so pleased with her! We have been doing a lot of extra reading at home, it helps when she has books that she can (mostly) read herself! When she can read books herself, it encourages her to read more. She's a right little book worm, hehe.

Going through pages of sight words.

I'm not sure when her parents evening is but I know that she has made a lot of progress. She can add and subtract numbers and she can pick out the highest and lowest numbers out of a group. I'm really proud of how well she's learning.

I do think we need to work on her not skipping letters when sounding out words though, I think sometimes she rushes, I'm sure we can work on that though!

I am so proud of my little's, they're learning and growing up so fast!

Sarah xXx

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'My pop up world - Weather' is a board book. Aged 3+ and has fourteen pages. It's suitable for both girls and boys.



The pages of this book are thick card and very good quality. The cover is a hard cover, which is bright and colourful, which really appealed to Ellie. The book itself is all about weather. Ellie loved the 'sunny' page best. She loved the sun glasses, hehe.


This is a really lovely little pop up book. It's easy and quick to read and beautifully illustrated with pop up pictures! Ellie is six years old and could read this book herself! She just loved reading it to me! She thought the pop up pictures were "super cool" (her words!).

This is a book Ellie can read over and over again, she really enjoys it!
I would recommend this book to any child over the age of 3. I think Ellie may have been a little bit old for this book but she likes it because it's an easy book, that she can read herself, which makes her feel very grown up. I'm ever so proud of her for reading this herself, bless her.

This book can be purchased from Egmont UK and is priced at £7.99. 

Sarah xXx 

We were sent a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. All opinions are my own, honest, personal opinion. I was not paid for this review. 

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