CURLY AND CANDID

Easter for us isn’t just about the chocolate. We aren’t a particularly religious family but Easter and it’s long weekend is a favourite of ours. Four days of no work and plenty of family time (regardless of whether the British weather plays ball!).

To start the day off we heard a little voice from our bedroom door….
“Mummy, Daddy… can I see if the Easter Bunny has been?”.

Little feet bounding down the stairs and a minute later
“Half of the carrots have been eaten!! The Easter Bunny must have liked them because he has left us choclate treats.. come and look!”.
Of course we are a little bit about the chocolate.

Easter is largely about food. On Good Friday I made pancakes for breakfast, and yesterday (Easter Sunday) it was of course time for toasted hot cross buns!

Chocolate and other gooey food aside, this Easter weekend has been about family and fun.
We have played games, drawn and painted, enjoyed crafts, make dens, played indoor skittles and all sorts. A bit of a saviour, especially as it has rained pretty much constantly, was this fantastic care package from Warner Brothers….

I don’t eat chocolate but do have a strange fondness for mini eggs. Kieran knows this and whisked them away pretty quick (traitor!). The films have have kept us busy and in laughter!

Yogi bear – perfect for us all. Both Kieran (5yrs) and Taylor (16m) were glued to it. Us grown ups enjoyed the humour that only we “got”. A great fun family film!

Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. A timeless classic. Kieran has just finished reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so having this sent was great timing. Another brilliant film that kept our attention from beginning to end.
Popcorn was substituted for Mini Eggs for this film.

Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
I adore Bugs and this DVD had us in stitches! All curled up on the sofa, laughing our socks off. Perfect for Easter Sunday afternoon.

And last but not least: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp).
We haven’t watched this yet, but plan to before the end of the school Easter hols. I’m intrigued and will let you know how we get on with it.

Great Easter viewing – thanks Warner Brothers – on the ball as always.
(Kieran has proclaimed the “lady with all the DVDs” as being “awesome” and “Very cool”!).

Today is Bank Holiday Monday, the last day of our four day weekend. This morning is all about kicking back. I have been granted a lie in (I’m in bed on the laptop!) and everyone else is in PJs downstairs. We are hoping that this awful rain stops soon as there is a bigger Bank Holiday market in town today which we want to go and explore but if it doesn’t ease up soon the stallholders will be packing up and going home. If that happens there will be no point us getting out of our PJs at all today which would be terrible 🙂

However you’ve spent your Easter weekend I hope it’s been great fun / relaxing (whichever you were looking for!). Enjoy your Bank Hol and remember (with the chocolate) once it’s gone…. it’s gone!

Easter viewing — THIS is what passes for Easter TV? Someone pass the DVD remote!

I’m a freelance writer..
People hear this and look interested.
“Oh! Do you write books?”, they ask.
“No, I write press releases,do translations,produce web copy, ghost blogs, articles and 101 other bits and pieces”
And the shutter comes down.
“Oh, so you don’t writer proper stuff?”
Ermmm.

I’m a blogger.
In fairness the shutter barely wobbles in the wind with this one.
The common response goes along the lines of…
“Oh, really?”, without looking up.

I’m a Mummy Blogger.
I have to say as labels go this isn’t one of my favourites. I find it slightly disconcerting to receive emails addressed to “Mummy” that haven’t been sent by my kids. “Mummy blogger” is a title loved by some and hated by others. As there is with all labels, the Mummy Blogger label has a stereotype attached to it. Mummy bloggers are those who make stuff up all day to get freebies right? Wrong. As a Mum (or a Mummy) who blogs (so you can see where Mummy Blogger comes from) I enjoy writing about my family, our home, our lives and our opinions. It is unfortunate that this is a label that can be used negatively as I know many people who fall under the Mummy, or Daddy or my preferred name parent blogger tab who are simply bloody wonderful people and talented writers.

I’m a WAHM (or work at home mum).
“So you work from home and look after kids at the same time?” *Insert raised eyebrow here*
Good Lord, is it possible that I may be able to work from home full-time and not damage my children? Clearly I neglect them terribly. As a WAHM I am bound to be letting something important fall by the wayside, (I agree with this actually, in my case it is usually sleep and dusting behind things).
Believe it or not thousands of men and women work from home very successfully, with children in school, nursery or at home. The joys of organisation i.e. working like a ferret on speed during nap times, and after bedtime as well as at a ridiculously early time of the day can all be part of the parent who works from home.

Some might say I am a mumpreneur.
“Oh God, not another one!”.
Calm down folks, it’s just a title. I am a Mum who runs a business. You have to admit that mumpreneur sounds infinitely better than Mumisiness-woman? It isn’t a term that I use myself but hey-ho.
Personally I couldn’t give two hoots what people call me (to my face or otherwise), a label is just a label. People are often grouped together by common interests, goals and other life choices. Ok, there is the potential for stereotyping and abuse with this but from a personal standpoint I don’t care if I am a blogger, a WAHM, or a Mumisiness-woman.

If you really want to know who I am, my name is Nicki.

Easter at the Cawood home

I am who I am