In search for a watch...

I have been after a wrist watch for sometime now. Today I came across the sale on Amazon UK. I liked these few pieces and still deciding which one to buy...

I like this white ones because of the wide belt.

The animal print on the display? Really? COOL!!!

Cute...

Nice colour for sporty :)


 Love the pink belt but me no liky the digital ...

I love crooked feel to it!
Ok, this one is out of my price range but if it was It would have been in my top 3!
Doesn't it look like a smiley face :)

I have till Thursday to decide(the sale finishes then). Tough o_O
 If I get to buy anything I will def write a review :)
Good days and shopping to you all :) 

Interesting thing is, the heart mends when we love and give of ourselves and then it grows and heals ... so rather than wait to be loved...start loving others, being kind to others, helping and your heart will be bigger  you could ever have dreamed possible.

Selling on ebay?!

It's been a long time since I wrote anything.... Had a bad week, actually two. My youngest missed 6 weeks at nursery, then finally she was fit to go. Thursday, Friday in. Everyone is happy! I was off to the gym and the girls were having fun with friends. Here comes Sunday and I find chicken pox on V! OMG! That's another 2 weeks at home :(  Am I a bad mum saying that 8 weeks at home( couldn't go out) with your kids makes you go

???????

Anyways, I thought to share a tip for selling stuff on e-bay. Probably many of us sell unwanted stuff, things your children grew out of, things you don't need any more and etc.  The most annoying thing I find when listing things are the charges for photos. Sometimes they don't charge you at all, and some times they do. Did you know that you can use a free independent photo hosting site? You upload your photos on that site and on your e-bay listing you can either do HTML to incorporate your photos, or just put links to your photos. I used to use http://www.auctiva.com/ , but now I am trying out a http://www.fileave.com.
Fileave seems easy to use. And what I like about it is that the links to the photos are straight forward and they show each photo in a full screen. Love it! Check as an example 'Clarks shoes'
Isn't it cool?  And by using this site you avoid extra charges for your photos on e-bay :)
  Happy e-baying  haha

And the winner is....

Gosh, its been a busy week. Appointments with paediatric clinic, genetics clinic, x-rays, schools admissions, chasing therapists.... 
Finally got the time to sit and draw the winner for the £20 voucher to spend in any of  the 6 CSN stores 

           And the winner is........ (drum roll please ;).......... mumsarcade. Congratulations!! 

Breastfeeding in the Land of Genghis Khan | InCultureParent

Breastfeeding.... Soo many opinions, advice, views, do's and dont's ... I breastfed my first daughter until she was 13 months old and she stopped on her own, I was pregnant 4 weeks with my second baby. The second child I was, well still am breastfeeding, And she is coming on 3. Yes 3 years old! I did stopped when she was around 2 and a half, for four months she was begging me to give it to her. Not demanding, but very gently and politely. My heart was breaking. If even after 4 months your child still asks for it that surely means that she really really needs it?! Everyone was telling me that I did the right thing and it is ridiculous to breastfeed her even as long as I did. I went to the GP about my acne and when she wanted to prescribe me something I told her that I'm breastfeeding, she looked at me like I'm an idiot and told me to quit. I asked her why? She said: '' the child is too old''. I left the office immediately with out saying a word, was so angry!

And after four months of not breastfeeding and her pledges ... it didn't feel right to me. And then she broke her arm! In the hospital she didn't get any painkillers and it was soo painful after the twisting the technicians did on her arm for an x-ray She was screaming with pain. She asked me for a breast and I gave it to her! So, she will be 3 in two months time and we are back breastfeeding on demand after 4 months break.

The article I have stumbled upon is fantastic. It is the best I have ever read about breastfeeding. My favourite part is: ''By Calum’s second year, I had fully realized just how useful breastfeeding could be. Nothing gets a child to sleep as quickly, relieves the boredom of a long car journey as well, or calms a breaking storm as swiftly as a little warm milk from mummy. It’s the lazy mother’s most useful parenting aid, and by now I thought I was using it to its maximum effect.''  I can relate to it 100%.

Please read the whole Article and hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Breastfeeding in the Land of Genghis Khan | InCultureParent

Perfect morning

   Ahh, it was such a good morning-it was perfect! Our Daddy, even though he came from work at 2 am, had planned a surprise for us. Usually  I take my girls to the cinema every Saturday morning. We go to Cineworld, they have a  choice of three movies/cartoons for kids for £1 per person on Saturdays. But last night we were told that daddy will take us to another cinema, he had already bought the tickets and the whatever we were watching starts at 9.45 am! 

     We got up, got ready, then Daddy joined us and off we went. It was 3D A Turtle's Tale.A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years travelling the world while it is being changed by global warming. I saw a few 3D movies and animations and this one is by far the best one I have seen! K kept trying to catch the fishes and I couldn't stop from trying myself to catch or touch something lol The story was quite interesting too. Made us laugh quite a few times :)  I would definitely  recommend it to go to see with your kids, just to note that if your child is very impressionable or easily scared, there are a few scenes with sharks snapping in your face and because of 3D effect it is in YOUR face, even I jumped.   
      Girls were so happy to have Daddy with us because it does not happen often. And when it does it's because mummy bugged him for ours or even days ;) So the morning was perfect for me because he was the one who took us, his initiative <3   
      After the cinema Daddy went home to sleep before he has to go back to work and I took the girls to the library. We love our library and spend ours in there. We read books, sometimes other kids join, seat next to us and listen :)  When they have enough of reading they go to play with other kids or pretend that they can read themselves :)  
      If you noticed I have used a lot of smiley faces in the post today... I wish to every one of you to smile as much as possible. It changes the world around you and better for your, tired mommas nervs :) Many happy smiles , peace out! 
     

Storm is coming.....

Storm is coming..... a photo by tigrisj on Flickr.

That is one of my favourite places in Greece. We used to go camping there every summer. The beach name is Melani, situated in Pelion on the Aegean Sea side. The sand is coarse, more like made out of very fine stone/gravel. Its popular with campers from Germany, Austria and Greeks themselves. That photo I took early in the morning, about 7 am. Every one was asleep in their tents, my hubby, his mum, his two cousins with their children. I tried to wake every one up and warn them that we have to get moving as the storm is coming but they all ignored me. So I stayed out with my 12 months old daughter  and watched as the sea raised and the waives reached the tents and went in. It was funny to see them running out of their tents in shock lol

We usually went during the week as it was quite empty but on Friday evening more tents appear and Saturdays' mornings when you coming out of your tent you'll see lots of new tents and many people sleeping just in their sleeping bags with no tents at all :)
I like it so much there that I even went camping there with my mother in low and we shared a tent every week end for a few weeks lol Every one was telling me that I'm mad! Just Me, K and my mother in low.
 My most memorable moment probably is... - when it was just me and MDH, in the morning about 6:30 I poped my head out of the tent and there was a naked bum right in front of me! Some German lady was doing her,I think Tai Chi, nude just in front of our tent lol lol
Panoramic view of the beach here.

Some more pics from Melani

Blue tent was ours, silver y mother's in low :)

Day with random fun :)

OMG! I am sooo tired.... My little one was waking me up at 6 am every morning for the last 5 days. I am getting like 4-5 hours sleep right now and every evening I would say to myself:'' after kids are asleep I am gonna post this and that on my blog!'' But I kept falling asleep in the kids bedroom...

  I had an invitation to check out LA Fitness at Muswell Hill for free(they do a promotion 3 days free pass, and then £54 a month- uhh), so I took my girls and off we were. We tried their swimming pool. I liked the changing rooms, they were clean and tidy, had a play pan for the smaller child while mummy's getting changed, lots of stations with hair dryers, but only one changing cabin if you want some privacy. Nice hot showers with soap/shampoo dispenser in case you don't have your own. Clean toilets. Ah! and they have plastic bags if you want to put your wet stuff into.
 The pool room was quite small but I liked it because it was very warm!  We had fun, lots of laugh and a work out for the girls :) Now I have to report back to V's physiotherapist about few things I have observed.

 When we left the pool, it was very warm outside and me being random and spontaneous...  We popped into M&S and went into Alexandra Palace forest/park. Spent about 4 hours walking around the park, playing at the play ground, scaring ducks and geese at the pond and watching deer.
 The girls fell asleep so quick once we got home and had dinner, I wish I could go to sleep too... But have lots of things to do.
 Best wishes to all of you xoxo May you have lots of fun days :)

A Giveaway - £20 to spend on anything you want at CSN stores!

I've been offered to give away a £20 voucher to spend in any of  the 6 CSN stores. So I have checked their on-line shops and they do have pretty interesting stuff. Myself am interested in bedroom furniture  as I have been looking for beds for my girls. But at the moment can't find anything that we can agree on. K is demanding for a bed to be with Disney's princesses theme, but I can not find anything that will fit in their bedroom in double exemplar.
While I was surfing their stores I saw pretty cool beds for boys! If I had a boy I bet he would just loved them lol

For the chance to win the £20 voucher:

•  Become a follower via Google Friend Connect and comment below(1st entry)
• Let your friends on Twitter know about the giveaway, comment below(2nd entry)
• Tell me what do you think about the wall art I posted below(3rd entry)

Closing date is on April 6. The winner will be picked randomly using Random Picker. 
Technically the giveaway can be opened to readers in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany. However, due to shipping restrictions, if the winner is from the US/Canada they must use their gift certificate code (which would then be $30) on one of their 200+ US websites and if a winner from Germany they must use the gift certificate code (which would then be €20) on one of their 4 German websites.


If I had the voucher I probably would have used it on any of the wall art they have. Free delivery on all of them!  These are my faves:

If you have a music room or studio...

Bedroom or dressing room?

Above the bed or sofa?

I just love the colours! I think I'd put it in a living room where the sunlight would hit it :)

Conservatory?

I'm not sure where, but I like it!

Good Luck :)

Green People

Last month I have finally found children's toothpaste which does not taste like peppermint or has a kilo of sugar in it. I have discovered Green People!  Their ORGANIC MANDARIN children toothpaste is a hit with both of my girls. But it wasn't in the beginning.  Why they were not impressed? The colour! It looks like a wall filler from DIY shop, grey mass. It took me about 5 min of ''lecture'' on how bad the pink stuff is(K's old one), that it gives her a stomach ache if she swallows etc and how good and healthy the grey one is. If she swallows it it is Ok, she does not even have to rinse her mouth after brushing.Please just try?!
And finally she did and the whole tube was gone in 2 weeks time! It is too tasty lol
With my 2 year old it took 2 weeks to get near her mouth with the new paste... But again, once she tried she loved it. A friend of mine who lives in US bought one as well for her daughter, she couldn't find it on sale in US so she bought it on e-bay. 
Today,Tuesday, I have received our second tube, it was ordered on Friday. And while writing the post I went to their site and they have an offer on it Buy 4 children's mandarin toothpastes get 2 free!  Damn! Why they didn't have it last Friday?!  oh well, i hope they will have this offer on coming Friday then I will be able to take it.

Happy and healthy smiles for everyone! 

ORGANIC MANDARIN, ORANGE & MYRRH

Really fruity taste, great for encouraging kids to brush! An excellent choice for children who dislike mint.

• Gentle on delicate teeth and gums
• 100% natural and safe - free from SLS and Fluoride
• Removes plaque and reduces bacterial regrowth
• Protective antioxidant action on gums
• No hydrocarbon or aluminium contamination

This natural toothpaste is made without Fluoride, SLS, Triclosan, Sorbitol, Parabens, phthalates, artificial sweeteners, petrochemicals and colourants to bring you the purest children's toothpaste that nature can offer.

Suitable for vegans and vegetarianseally fruity taste, great for encouraging kids to brush! An excellent choice for children who dislike mint.

Today's freebies :D

Free Ben & Jerrys Fair Trade Bag

to celebrate Ben & Jerry's ice cream move to fair trade the first 2,500 people to enter their details on the Co-Op web site linked will receive a mooooovelous Fairtrade shopping bag! You must enter the barcode of a tub of ice cream too so here are 3 examples - cookie dough (8 0076840600021), phish food (8 0076840600151 ), caramel chew chew (8 0076840600915)

Free L'Essence D'Eau Skin Cream

this is a must for people who suffer from acne or other skin disorders. Don't miss a chance to try one of the best acne treatments.

Free Pint Of Guiness Or Small Baileys

delicious if you like either of these Irish drinks. Just fill out your eail to get sent a voucher which can be redeemed at any Marston's pub. You can search for the locations on the left hand side.

Free Cosmetics For Joining Glamour Magazine Reader Panel

had loads of stuff from Glamour from joining this panel. They will send you free beauty products to test and review, which you can keep afterwards. Everyone is a winner, enjoy!

Free Recipe Book By Antony Worrall Thompson

simply complete your details and they’ll send you an email with a link to download your free copy of Antony Worrall Thompson’s recipe book. You also can get loads of other offers etc. form the Irish food board.

Free Fitness First Gym & Spa Day Pass

there's so much to do in a day at Fitness First; Check out the full range of facilities available, meet the team, relax with your friends, and most importantly of all enjoy your workout!

Free Personalised 100% Cotton Bag

just click the get started button to begin designing your cotton bag with your own photos or text. You need to pay a small p&p charge but its a pretty cool freebie so I thought it was well worth posting. I have used Vista prints many times and def recommend. 

At home SPA day for my acne ;)

Monday... We stayed in today doing pretty much nothing. I gave up on keeping the house spotless clean a long time ago, keeping it relatively clean but the mess seems to never end. I have tidied up 3 times today but it still messy. I've tried everything, I think, to teach my girls to put things away when they don't use them any more but ... they still don't!!  Any recommendations????

Anyways... Girls asked for a smoothie and their today's recipe was: juiced apples, pears, plums and carrots mixed with  smoothed banana and strawberry. Yum! And when I was tidying up after the making I looked at the bums of strawberries and remembered my aunt. She used to smother strawberries and other fresh foods all over her face :) So I took the leftovers,mashed them with a fork,added some raw unpasteurised honey, pure Pearl powder and Calcium Bentonite Clay. Spread on my face with fan mask brush and left it for I-don't-know-may-be-an-hour (but usually 15-20 min). After rinsing I put an Aloe Vera gel straight from the plant's leaf. Check here for more details on it. at the moment my skin looks quite good but the acne parts look worse.As they say - ''people notice that their acne appears to worsen before it improves.  Don't panic if this happens to you!  This is a good thing!''  I do hope so!!!


P.S. I have suffered with adult acne for almost 2 years now. It came with my first period when my youngest daughter was 11 months old. I have tried Dermalogica, Clinic (thats the one I will go back to if natural stuff won't work), Clearasil, pharmaceutical, prescribed by GP  and many other ones. I am on the mission to find the cure!

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