An artist’s eye

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

Little Man was painting yesterday. Some serious works of art were produced – bold splashes of colour,...

Avoid animal circuses!

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

I remember going to a circus as a kid – the clowns, the trapeze artists, the popcorn, the animals! I...

Wordless Wednesday: Climbing Trees

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 28, 2012 in Love | 2 comments

It’s ages since I’ve done a Wordless Wednesday post (or Wordy Wednesday as they usually are in...

Kelloggs GAA Cúl Camps

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 27, 2012 in Calendar Event, Play |

The 2012 Kelloggs GAA Cúl Camps launched at Croke Park today. In the past six years, close to half a million...

Captain Barnacles and the icebergs!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 25, 2012 in Play | 4 comments

Little Man is going through a superhero phase right now. When you ask him what he wants to play, his first...

Gotta love long weekends!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 19, 2012 in Life |

Every weekend should be a long weekend. Ever since I did that year of four-day work weeks, following my...

So much for old wives’ tales

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 16, 2012 in Life, Sleep | 10 comments

Little Man is cutting two very painful eye teeth at the moment. Yes, yes he is almost two and a half and...

Am I the only one who can’t read CAPTCHA?

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 14, 2012 in Write | 16 comments

I read quite a few blogs every day, and I generally post a reply when I think a blog post has been...

Chris Haughton’s children’s books

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 12, 2012 in Love, Play, Reviews |

As I mentioned yesterday in writing about Offset 2012, one of the highlights of Friday was getting Chris...

Recharging the batteries at Offset 2012

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 11, 2012 in Life | 2 comments

Every so often it’s great to get a break from the drudgery of daily life and do something different....

Sometimes you gotta love eBay

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 7, 2012 in Play | 3 comments

The organising continues in our house. We’ve even been tackling our boardgame storage. By far our...

Eskimo Kids – who knew?

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 5, 2012 in Life, Sleep | 3 comments

At book club last month, one of my fellow mammies was telling me all about a fish oil supplement that she...

Procrastination as an art form

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 4, 2012 in Life | 2 comments

I’ve often thought that it seems to take us forever to get anything done in this house. And today, I...

Half sitting room/half playroom

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Mar 3, 2012 in Life | 8 comments

The spring cleaning continues around our house. Today the sitting room was our target for improvement. These...

World Book Day

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

Today is World Book Day – a day to celebrate new books, old books, our favourite books, and our love...

What a deal!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Feb 29, 2012 in Play | 2 comments

What a find! Still on the subject of trains, Charlie managed to pick up a wooden train play table and a set...

Comparing Wooden Toy Trains

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Feb 28, 2012 in Featured, Play, Reviews | 8 comments

Little Man is currently OBSESSED with trains. Every evening lately, when I ask him what he’d like to...

That was fun!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Feb 26, 2012 in Play |

Last night was our first ever Boardgame Club meetup – I think it’s fair to say it was a success....

Boardgames for everyone

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Feb 25, 2012 in Love | 2 comments

The other night we realised we own a crazy amount of boardgames. Well crazy when you realise that half of...

A terrible mistake

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Feb 23, 2012 in Life | 7 comments

I think I made a terrible mistake yesterday. I got carried away with all this talk of Lent and “giving...