A to Z of parenting

Hey readers,

Parenting invokes all times of emotions and ideas. So I thought it would be fun to do a blog post of A to Z of all things parent-related.

A - arguments because the changes of arguments are high whether it be a disagreement with your partner or your child giving you check it happens, it's normal and sometimes it is good to have an argument to clear the air. 

B - besotted with your baby when it is born and being mesmerised with how you have created this small creature.

 
C - chores are forever there with children it just stops cleaning, even if you do now and again go on a strike it will be there. The list will never end so do what you can don't stress about it. 

D - Discipline - because it is really important to teach your child right from wrong. It will help them be a good person and also making parenting so much easier. 

E-education is so important in our lives because it is where we get knowledge and learn vital skills such as reading, forming opinions, and reasoning to name a few. 

F - fathers - because they are part of the deal of parenting. 

G - google - thank goodness at times to find helpful information for example I learned how to clean milk bottles (trust me I needed several times to master this skill). So, Google helps me and gives me confidence in learning knowing that some answers are available. 

H - homework - My kids are currently at primary school and do homework and I hate it. Sadly, it starts at reception and finishes right at the end. Hopefully, as my kids get older it will be less of a chore as I need to motivate them as not kids want to comply. 

I - imagination - Kids love this stuff, me not so much. 

J - jokes are so important to help manage life parenthood. You need some lightheartedness to help get through them bleak periods. 

K - kindness - sometimes we can be really heard about ourselves as parents because we want to do the best for our children. But you also need to give yourself some slack and be kind because that too will impact parenting in the long run.  

L - laughs- nothing is as cute as hearing kids have innocent fits of laughter. 

M- mothers - the other part of the parenting world. 

N - no - is the most overused words when being a parent. 

O - opinions are raff everywhere you will find them. Whether it is family members, other parents, and the odd moaning cow at the bus stop looking down at you. You have to learn to go with what feels right for you and sometimes you seek advice that is fine but when it comes down to the unsolicited variety just take it with a pinch of salt, you can't please everyone. 

P - parenting welcome along, it is a long journey and I don't think it will ever end until you die I think. 

Q - quiet  - these times you appreciate and savor like never before. 

R - routine - some enjoy like myself find comfort in having some sort of control and it helps children as well to feel settled.

S - shouting - you will shout at times, you feel crap after however sometimes you little darlin's just don't listen.

T - tears - whether it is from you worrying about your child, them crying over something dear to them, or being overtired there be many tears shed. 

U - unpredictability - just when you think you have this parenting lark sussed something comes along and tests you out. 

V - volume because especially when kids go to school it seems they get louder when they come home even though they stand right next to your eardrum and shout. I have lost count on how many times I have to say quiet or use your indoor voice. 

W - worn out - this is often a feeling, especially during the earlier years. 

X - xylophone - why did you think was a good idea to get this musical instrument for your child to smash the crap out of it. 

Y - you - because you count as well and do something for you that you enjoy. 

Z - zombie - the times when you become a parent and you lose so much sleep you are walking around like a zombie. 

Cheers for reading X

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

30 day minimalism challenge

Hey readers, 

 I bet you are wondering what the 30-day minimalism challenge is? well, let me tell you about it.

Basically, the 30-day minimalism challenge can be done any time that suits you. The idea is to challenge you to do some sort of decluttering in your life. The lists I have produced are some easy and a bit harder.

The goal is to do complete each challenge every day. It is good sometimes to have something to aim for and hopefully by the end of the challenge you feel more organised with less clutter in your life. 

There are many benefits to cluttering with reducing stress, boosting your creativity, and making your home be a bit tidier.

Here is the list of the 30-day minimalism challenge. 

1. Purge your wardrobe. There is a good post by Simply Saving that goes into more detail on how to declutter items such as shoes, clothes, and bags. You can find out more detail here.

2. Throw out old socks.

3. Avoid spending for a day. 

4. Cook at home for the day - all three meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

5. Clean out your fridge.

6. Clean out your email inbox.

7. Create a morning ritual. 

8. Practice single-tasking.

9. Go through your books.

10. Spend 30 minutes outside. 

11. Evaluate your current spending.

12. Delete the unwanted apps that you don't use.

13. Write tomorrow's to-do list before bed.

14. Say no to something.

15. Turn off notifications.

16. Empty your junk drawer.

17. Clean out your car.

18. Clean your makeup brushes.

19. Recycle old receipts and paperwork.

20. Write out some new minimalist rules to live by.

21. Act of kindness.

22. Get all your errands done.

23. Ditch makeup for a day.

24. Declutter 5 items.

25. Organise your digital files.

26. Make a new dish.

27. Take a long bath.

28. Write down 3 things you are grateful for.

29. Unsubscribe from at least 4 email newsletters. 

30. Don't complain all day.

Have you tried the declutter challenge? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

My Sunday photo 18/07/2021

Pop-it chocolate bar recipe.

 Hey readers,

As pop-its are very popular at the moment then you may want to try out this fun pop-it activity making chocolate with a pop-it mold.

What you will need.

* Pop-it.

* A bar of chocolate - make sure it contains milk or milk powder but not whey powder or added protein.

 * A bag of  M&Ms.

Method. 

1. Make sure you that wash your pop-it to make sure nice and clean.

2. Enough water to not boil dry but not so much it touches the bar. Make the water simmer. Place the chocolate into a bowl and put it on top of the pan and keep checking until the chocolate is melted.   (You can also melt the chocolate in the microwave in a 10 to 20-second burst).

3. Next you need to put M&MS into the holes of the pop-it.

4. Pour the chocolate over the pop-it, making sure that it is covered all over.

5. Then place into the fridge and leave for a couple of hours, until the chocolate.

6. Peel pop-it from chocolate.

Cheers for reading X 

75 fun things to do over summer.

 Hey readers,

Summer is among us and you may be looking for some ideas of fun things to do. So check out my electric list of ideas to make you want to do something this summertime. 

1. Bike rides.

2. Make ice cream. 

3. Have a picnic at the park. 

4. Do a puzzle.

5. Visit a splash park. 

6. Plant flowers or vegetables.

7. Berry picking. 

8. Take an early/late walk. 

9. Fly a kite. 

10. Go to the cinema. 

11. Try new food. 

12.  Go to an amusement park. 

13. Take a road trip. 

14. Feed the ducks. 

15. Go to the beach.

16. Ride in a hot air balloon. 

17. Make tie-dye T-shirts.

18. Learn to fly fish.

19. Have a water balloon fight.

20. Play disc golf. 

21. Visit a museum. 

22. Collect natural objects for art.

 

23. Host a bake-off.

24. Geocache. 

25. Send a postcard.

26. People watch.

27. Take a scroll through sunflower fields.

28. Make a summer wreath.

29. Eat al fresco. 

30. Try out a new dessert recipe. 

31. Make slush puppies. 

32. Pick wildflowers. 

33. Have a BBQ.

34. Sleep with your windows open. 

35. Make your own salsa. 

36. Go fishing. 

37. Take a hike. 

38. Take a canoe ride. 

39. Stay inside because it is too hot to go outside. 

40. Do a walking tour of your nearest city. 

41. Wash your car properly. 

42. Practice yoga in the park. 

43. Play minigolf.

44. Visit the library.

45. Take a walk and listen to a podcast. 

46. Take photographs of nature. 

47. Go to an outdoor film screening. 

48. Skim stones at a pond. 

49. Walk barefoot. 

50. Go to the zoo or a city farm. 

51. Mow the lawn. 

52. Eat a slice of watermelon. 

53. Find fun shapes in clouds. 

54. Camp in your garden.

55. Collect seashells.

56. Play kickball. 

57. Make s'mores.

58. Lego challenges.

59. Spend the day doing things that don't cost a penny.

60. Make a list of things when you are bored. 

61. Write a novel or short story. 

62. Blog. 

63. Vlog.

64. Buy a digital photo frame and fill it with your favourite photos. 

65. Dance like no one is watching. 

66. Print one of your favourite photos. Then enlarge it and put it in a photo frame. 

67. Watch an entire series on Netflix. 

68. Work on a puzzle.

69. Do something completely out of your comfort zone. 

70. Stargaze at night. 

71. Make a travel inspiration board.

72. Go for a scenic drive.

73. Plant a herb garden. 

74. Make a birdfeeder. 

75. Check out virtual performances. 

Have I missed something on the list that you think would make a good idea to do during summertime? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

My Sunday Photo 11/07/2021

Iced cold coffee recipe.

 Hey readers, 

Looking for an awesome cold beverage to have during the summer. Then you need to try this iced cold coffee recipe down below. 

What you will need.

* Coffee (granules or filtered).

* Sugar.

* Coffee syrup.

* Ice cubes.

* Milk or cream.

How to make the iced cold coffee.

1. Make a cup of coffee and add sugar (optional) put it into a jug and mix well until it has dissolved. 

2. Let the coffee cool down to room temperature and then put the jug in the fridge for 1 hour so that it is chilled. 

3. Put some ice into the glass.

4.  Pour the coffee into the glass.

5. add some coffee syrup mix together there you have your iced coffee. 

Enjoy!

Cheers for reading X 

7 reasons why I hate the school run.

Hey readers,

I hate the school run, it is a pain the ass. Let me tell you the reasons why below. 

1.The weather.

Let's face it going to pick or drop off your little darlings when it is absolutely pissing it down or raging hot is always fun said no parent ever! Your either blinded by the blazing sun or getting drowned as a rat is often the case. Then you left either sweating or soaked through and cold. 

2. People parking like morans. 

When your trying to walk to school with the kids and the bloody cars are parked on the pavement taking up most of the path so it is extremely difficult to get around when there are also other people going in the opposite direction. Not to mention when cars park in bus lanes because they can't be arsed to make the effort to walk less than probably 5 minutes away from their home or park further away in a suitable spot because it is so lazy. 

3. Kids on scooters and bikes. 

Trying to just get your kids to school is a ball ache but then you have other obstacles to deal with like maneuvering around other children who are on bikes or scooters is fun as sometimes let's just say they are not good in a straight line and it may be a cause of having to jump out of the frigging way in order to be knocked down with everyone staring at you.

4.  Getting out of the door.

Sometimes the hardest part of the school run is the actual getting out of the front door. Kids will forget something, take their time putting on their shoes, or most like mess about with their siblings so they forget that they have a short time to get out of the door and to school. Other than bedtime this time is when they go into a sloth mood and no other time will you will see your child slow right down, sod's law I guess. 

5. Dog poo.

Where I live in an urban area and quite a few people in the neighborhood have dogs which means DOG POO. Quite often owners of dogs where I live haven't got the memo that you need to pick up the poo after the dogs had a shit. Therefore not only are you trying to avoid other children on scooters/bikes your also trying to maneuver around the dog poo. There is nothing more annoying than having dog poo on your show and trying to rub the dame thing off on the grass. 

6. Realising you have forgotten something your child needs. 

There are no many things happening and if your late because you have accidentally *ahem* tapped too many times on the snooze button of the alarm and therefore resemble a headless chicken then chances are you will end up forgetting a form, pe kit, etc. You most definitely have to go back a second trip to take the wanted item in.

7 I look like crap. 

waking up early in the morning, trying to get kids ready for school you forget or don't have the time to get yourself ready especially by the end of the week where you knackered and motivation to do their bare minimum is low so you end up looking like crap but it's ok as your not the only parent at there to crap ;)

Do you resonate with how I feel about the school run? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

 

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

My Sunday Photo 04/07/2021

My youngest happy reading his book from the library that he chose :)

116 sizzling summer Instagram captions.

Hey readers,

It is summertime so check out these sizzling hot summer-based Instagram captions where it is funny or beach-related I have it covered down below.  

 

       

   Cute summer Instagram captions. 

1. Catching some rays, some waves, and some faves. 

2. You're one in a melon. 

3. Sunsets > Netflix.

4. Let’s seas the day.

5. Girls just wanna have sun.

6. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream ... and that’s pretty much the same thing.

7. Nothing but sandy skin and summer smiles. 

8. Beach bum.

9. Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.

10. Keepin' it reel.

11. Paradise found.

12. Single and ready to fla-mingle.

13. Find me in the waves.

14. Life is better in a bikini.

15. Vacation mode: On.

16. Living on island time.

17. Tan lines may fade, but friends are forever.

18. Sunshine is the best medicine.

Summer song lyrics for Instagram.

19. "It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine. It's summertime." —Kenny Chesney.

20. "Here comes the sun, and I say, it's all right." —The Beatles.

21. "I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine." —Natasha Bedingfield.

22. "Summer days drifting away to, oh, oh, the summer nights." —Grease.

23. "On an island in the sun, we'll be playing and having fun, and it makes me feel so fine, I can't control my brain." —Weezer.

24. "Summer, summer, summertime. Time to kick back and unwind." —Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff.

25. "Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet." —Justin Timberlake.

26. "I ain't never gonna beat this summer with you." —Brad Paisley.

27. "Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby is where I'll be." —The Drifters.

28. "Summertime, and the livin's easy". — "Doin' Time" by Sublime.

29. "I'm gonna soak up the sun, I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up." —Sheryl Crow.

30. "Everybody's gone surfin', surfin' U.S.A." —The Beach Boys.

Beach pun summer Instagram captions. 

31. Girls just wanna have sun.

32. Seas the day.

33. Don’t worry, beach happy.

34. Life's a beach.

35. Happiness comes in waves.

36. Keep palm and carry on.

37. Shell yeah!

38. Tropic like it’s hot.

39. I'm an aquaholic.

40. Namast'ay at the beach.

41. We mermaid for each other.

42. Beach bum.

43. Shell-abrate good times.

44. Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.

45. Beach, please!

46. Just hanging with my gull-friends.

47. A midsummer ice cream.

48. Keepin' it reel.

49. Where there's a will, there's a wave.

50. I can sea clearly now.

51. I have resting beach face.

52. Happy as a clam.

53. Sun of a beach.

54. I don't wanna be tide down.

55. Giving in to pier pressure.

56. Long time, no sea.

57. Anything is popsicle!

58. Summer is going swimmingly.

59. Ahoy!

60. Happiest in flip flops.

61. Life's wave, catch it.

62. Feelin' beachy.

63. Stay salty.

64. You, me, and the sea.

65. Hope you have a (beach) ball!

66. You used to call me on my shell-phone.

67. Single and ready to flamingle.

68. You are mer-mazig.

Funny summer Instagram captions.

69. "Summer is the best excuse for lazy days."

70. "Pool hair, don't care."

71. "Vitamin Sea."

72. "I need a six-month vacay twice a year."

73. "Ice cream is a food group."

74. "Where can I get more vacation days?"

75. "Beach, please!"

76. "Stay salty."

77. "Tropic like it’s hot!"

78. "I’m in a flip-flop state of mind."

79. "Watch more sunsets than Netflix."

80. "Summer should get a speeding ticket."

81. "Summer is here and I am vibing".

82. "Find me under the palms."

83. "Happiness is air-conditioning on a hot summer night."

84. "I prefer my footprints in the sand than the snow."

85. "Sun, sand, and pineapple in hand."

86. "The beach: where doing absolutely nothing is doing something."

87. "Shake your palm palms."

88. "A pineapple a day keeps the worries.

Summer Vacations Instagram captions.

89. I’m on island time.

90. Paradise found.

91. My office for the day…

92. Out of office.

93. Vacay all day.

94. On vacation… be back never.

95. I live here now.

96. Would you be a dear and fetch a straw for my coconut?

97. That cabana life.

98. Chaise all day.

99. Chaise the blues away.

100. Tropic like it’s hot.

101. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

102. It’s not a vacation… it’s a lifestyle.

Summer Quotes for Instagram

103. "I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies." —Toni Morrison.

104. "Everything good, everything magical, happens between The months of June and August." —Jenny Han.

105. "The summer night is like a perfection of thought." —Wallace Stevens.

106. "In summer, the song sings itself." —Williams Carlos Williams.

107. "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

108. "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." —Henry David Thoreau.

109. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." —Audrey Hepburn.

110. "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

111. "In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different." —John Steinbeck.

112. "I wonder what it would like to live in a world where it was always June." —L.M. Montgomery.

113. "It was June, and the world smelled of roses." —Maud Hart Lovelace.

114. "I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kelle Elmore.

115. "Summer's lease hath all too short a date." —William Shakespeare.

116. "And the summer seems as though it would dream on forever." —Elizabeth von Arnim.

Cheers for reading X