Hair Bear Bunch: Style of the week!

This weeks hairstyle is super easy and cute.

All three of my daughters regularly ask for this hairstyle. And it gives gorgeous relaxed wavey curls to their hair the next day!

This is a 'High Pony, with 4 Spiral Twists'

Monkey Music Charity Single

On the 18th of May 2012, pre school music group, Monkey Music, are releasing their charity single titled "The Day is Here" in aid of Nordoff Robins, a national music charity dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children and adults across the UK.
To find out more about the Nordoff Robins charity and what they are all about, you can click here.

Monkey Music is a pre school music group who cater for children aged 3 months to 4 years, check out their website and see if they have a group near you.

Taken from the Monkey Music website:

"Monkey Music has recorded a special song to celebrate the amazing summer of sport ahead! Performed by children and written especially for Monkey Music families, our fundraising charity song, 'The Day is Here!', tells the exciting story of a running race. The song will provide a sporting musical interlude during our classes and by selling the song online, we also aim to raise money for our charity partner, Nordoff Robbins.

Nordoff Robbins is a national specialist music charity, delivering 50,000 music therapy sessions a year to a broad range of people in schools, hospitals, care homes and prisons across the UK. They help people with a range of challenges including autism, dementia, mental health problems, stroke, brain injury, learning difficulties, depression and in some cases clients have threatening or terminal illness, such as cancer.

Both Monkey Music and Nordoff Robbins offer children fresh opportunities and life changing experiences through music. We believe that by working together we can raise awareness of the benefits of music for everyone."

You can find out more about Monkey Music, and download "The Day is Here" charity single, from May 18th, here.

Meal Plan Monday! - 14/05/2012

Welcome to the start of yet another week.
After a blissfully dry and sunny weekend, we are back to the standard grey, wet and cold weather that we are all too used to here in Blighty!
This weeks menu is as follows:
Monday: Sausage and Pea Rossotto
Tuesday: Jacket Potatoes
Wednesday: Vegetable Casserole with Herby Dumplings
Thursday: *Chicken and Tomato Couscous
Friday: Cod and homemade chips
Saturday: Cheese and Tomato Pasta Bake
Sunday: *Chicken Roast Dinner

* denotes cooking double quantities to save time in the kitchen for another meal.

Baking: Vanilla and Strawberry Cupcakes.

What are you cooking this week?

Silent Sunday

Meal Plan Monday! - 07/05/2012

It's Monday!

 

Here, I post my weeks worth of dinner time meals for you to see.

 

If there are any recipes you would like from this weeks menu, please give me a shout and I'll post them for you!

Items marked with an * are where I have cooked double the quantity needed so that meals later in the week are quicker and easier to prepare.

Once again, I will be having a baking day with the children to bake treats for their snacks and school lunch boxes.

Monday:       Lentil Supper
Tuesday:       Spaghetti Bolgnaise
Wednesday: Home Made Pizza
Thursday:     Roast vegetable Lasagne
Friday:         *Pork Stir Fry
Saturday:      Chicken Wraps
Sunday:      *Roast Pork  Dinner

Baking - Banana and Oat Muffins

What are you having for dinner this week?

Silent Sunday

Political Correctness gone mad!

Photo Credit.

While at a parent/toddler group with Che a couple of weeks back, we were enjoying song time, when one of the children requested that we sing 'Baa, Baa Black Sheep'

A simple request, you would think, yet the group leader advised that we are not allowed to call it that anymore. We must now sing 'Baa, Baa Rainbow Sheep'.

What on earth?!

Black is still a colour that people use everyday. Are we meant to now refer to a black crayon, or car, or paint or anything else for that matter as a rainbow? What exactly are we teaching our children here? And seriously, is it just me that thinks political correctness has gone a bit bonkers in the nut?

This nursery rhyme is not derogatory in the slightest, so why do people feel the need to change the wording?

I have always sung 'Baa, Baa BLACK Sheep' to my children and I will continue to do so, until someone can point out a genuine rainbow coloured sheep in a field.