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A mud kitchen

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Take some mud & sand, a sprinkle of flowers & leaves, mix with a dash of water and you have the ingredients for fun! Mud kitchen fun! Muffins, cakes, cups of tea and pizzas are on the menu. Served up by messy little people who are having a wonderful time!

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What was once a messy wood pile has been transformed into a glorious mud kitchen.

The potting bench that was our old mud kitchen was popped into place. Together with an assortment of jugs, buckets and containers left behind by the previous owners. Given a happy new purpose *grin*

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The children found some scraps of wood and made their own serving counter and cash register. And a blackboard was set up as the menu.

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And what busy little workers we have in our mud kitchen, many many hours of fun!

Happy days, Kelly

 

Sleeping in

A stolen hour or half hour of sleep on the weekend is delicious.

I’ve never been much of a morning person and luckily (touch wood) my kids tend to wake up around 7.30. I can cope with that. But on the weekend I still love a sleep in.

To help grab a few more winks I often leave out some craft materials or invitation to play for the kids to discover in the morning. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t. But on the mornings it does I feel super lucky.

And some mornings I hear my son helping his sister with breakfast and even getting dressed. She can do these things herself, but still likes us to help her, so I am very appreciative that he does this.

The outfits they may chose might be rather different ~ she has a bit of a shorts over leggings thing going on right now! Or they may stay in pyjamas half the day {with ‘weapons’ tucked down their tops}…

And the house may feel more ‘well played in’ when I get up, but this is a small thing when I get those stolen winks.

How do you manage to grab some extra sleep?

Happy days
Kelly