Wednesday Window: Volcanic Ventures

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 16, 2012 in Play | 4 comments

I’ve come to accept that I’ll never be wordless and I’ll never manage a true Wordless...

Entertaining a toddler

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 14, 2012 in Play | 2 comments

We have been having so much fun with arts and crafts lately. Painting, drawing, sculpting, papier mâché...

Quick Craft: Spyglass

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 12, 2012 in Play | 3 comments

Not all fun crafts have to take hours. We had great fun this afternoon making a spyglass for some pirate-y...

Wednesday Window: Irish Summer

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 9, 2012 in Play | 2 comments

I’ve come to accept that I’ll never be wordless and I’ll never manage a true Wordless...

Bye Bye Freddie

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 4, 2012 in Life | 8 comments

Last August, we were very excited to welcome Freddie the goldfish into our little family. We bought him and...

Wednesday Window: Spacecraft-y

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 2, 2012 in Play | 1 comment

Following on from last week’s realization that I was never going to manage a true Wordless Wednesday...

Cancelling Netflix

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on May 1, 2012 in Life | 20 comments

Back in January, I posted about how excited I was to sign up for our Netflix account. I was convinced that...

Egg carton raft

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 28, 2012 in Play | 3 comments

Inspired by MollyMoo’s Egg Carton Raft, we decided to make our own variation of an egg carton raft...

Incompatible with Life

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 26, 2012 in Life | 17 comments

I have one child, but I have been pregnant three times. Having suffered two early miscarriages in the past...

Wednesday Window: Rainbows and Butterflies

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 25, 2012 in Play | 9 comments

I was going to call this post Wordless Wednesday, when I realised that I’m fooling myself if I think I...

Baby Led Weaning two years on

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 24, 2012 in Life | 5 comments

This week Adele over on Circus Queen announced that she is hosting a Baby Led Weaning blog carnival, and she...

Food for the ducks

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 20, 2012 in Play | 1 comment

Forget gadgets and games – if you want a sure fire way to entertain a toddler for an entire morning or...

Afternoon Tea for Two

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 19, 2012 in Life, Reviews | 2 comments

For Mother’s Day this year, my brother bought a gift voucher for afternoon tea for two in Adare Manor,...

Wordless Wednesday: Nostalgia

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 18, 2012 in Life | 1 comment

Spent a lovely evening pouring over old family photographs of my grandparents on my mother’s side....

App Review: Paper

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 11, 2012 in Play | 3 comments

Our whole family has fallen in love with a new app called Paper. This app by FiftyThree Inc is available for...

A breath of fresh air

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 9, 2012 in Calendar Event, Life, Play | 6 comments

It’s been a long and chocolately weekend. I don’t even want to think about how many Easter Eggs...

Happy Easter!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 8, 2012 in Calendar Event, Life |

Many thanks to Caitriona from Wholesome Ireland for her tip about the Easter Egg moulds in Tesco this week....

Octoeggs!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 7, 2012 in Calendar Event, Play | 2 comments

We’ve been trying out a few Easter related crafts this week. So far Little Man’s favourite was...

Flashback Fest #1

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 6, 2012 in Love | 1 comment

To my shock, I realised recently that I have over 450 blog posts at this stage. But many of those were...

Wordless Wednesday: Decorator Crab

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Apr 4, 2012 in Play | 4 comments

Little Man just loves the Octonauts, and one of his favourite stories is “The Octonauts and the...