Thankful Thursday Week 5

Welcome back to my weekly Linky. I hope you can link up and share what you are thankful for this week, a story, a sentence or just a picture, its always good to find our silver linings.

As you know last week I lost my 'Grandad' , well this week saw his funeral and whilst there I listened to a service about his life; how 4 children had led to 14 grandchildren and 13 Great grandchildren, all of whom spoke fondly of him and gathered together to look after one another, to find comfort together,,,, so this week I am thankful for my family, I'm grateful that I am blessed with a wonderful husband and brilliant kids, and for the family I have spent today with who count me as part of thier own and who are large and noisy and funny and crazy and just plain fabulous.

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Five Months

So today we became a full 5 months old! We can now sit up very nicely with support, find our feet, sing songs (these are especially lyrical at around 4am!!) and belly-laugh! Termite has always been a relaxed and pleasant baby, she's very alert and is quite content to watch the world go by, smiling and gurgling to people as they pass. We get loads of comments on how good she is, how quiet and happy. 

This month we have used the following things A LOT....

Skip hop change bag - it's so spacious it fit everything I need in it.

Tots bots - again these are my most favourite cloth nappy, so user friendly easily washed and dried and so far not a single leak.

iZi Go Car Seat - I'm reviewing this for Nursery Trader and it's really amazing do funky but also really well designed you can read my thoughts here.

Frugi Nursing Dress - I really struggle to find reasonably priced nice nursing clothes and so find myself with a 'capsule wardrobe ' meaning this dress is worn A LOT 

Amber Anklet - we were sent this a while ago to review and have now truly put it through its paces watch out for a review and competition next week! 

This next month will see us prepare and begin to wean as Termite has already started showing signs of readiness we've some lovely reviews coming up for food, recipes, book, cutlery and accessories

Project 365 days 19-25

So heading fast into the last week of January, and onto February (that's nearly springtime, don't you know) we've had a mixed old week...

19 - Selfies with my littlest lady.

20 - Termite finds  her toes.

21 - Funny faces whilst having horse rides on mammy's knees. 

22 - My lovely Grandad George 

23 - So begins the clean out of 'the room of doom'.

24 - Rocking some Robot Jim Jams 

25 - Termite practising sitting up with Elmo

Sugar and Crumbs Review

When I saw a tweet asking if anyone would like to try out some products from sugar and crumbs, I leaped at the chance, they are a lovely company offering 100% natural fruit flavoured icing sugar and cocoa  powder.

Very quickly I received my lovely tester bag, containing black cherry, coconut and chilli and lime icing sugar  and some chocolate coconut cocoa powder alongside some recipe ideas, which are also featured on their very cool website. 

The bag arrived just in time for our pre Christmas  bake off! 

So we set about making our coconut mice and also a birthday cake for my best friends birthday. We used black cherry for the mice and coconut for the cake topping but instead of using butter icing I made my favourite whipped cream and icing sugar topping. Which is as simple as folding some icing sugar into double cream and then whipping until it forms peaks. We followed this recipe for the cake using our Chocolate Coconut cocoa powder and we made a snowball cake, I will point out that the kids were heavily involved in this so the term 'ball' is used loosely,  and then smothered it in gorgeous tasting cream topping and sprinkled with coconut.

The coconut mice were so tasty I may (totally did) eat too many of them! The snowball cake, well it may not have looked picture perfect but the coconut flavour really came through and it was delicious, it went down really well!!

The good points

• All natural flavours
• Lots of choice
• A good taste to those we've tried, they actually taste like they are supposed to
• Reasonably priced

Bad Points

• There are so many flavours I want to try them all!!

I'd love if you could spread a little love for the gorgeous folks at sugar and crumbs by following them on twitter  or liking them on Facebook 

***Sugar and Crumbs sent us these items free of charge, but all opinions are those Family Monnkeyfeet.***

Thankful Thursday Week 4

Welcome back to my weekly Linky. I hope you can link up and share what you are thankful for this week, a story, a sentence or just a picture, its always good to find our silver linings.

But first a little apology, last weeks linky did not work as it was meant to so a big thankyou to those who tried to link up, hopefully this week will work much better.

Now then this weeks thanks.... 

Sadly this week has saw the passing of someone very lovely, a man I've called Granda for years despite the fact that we have no genes in common! He was a true gentleman and full of great stories and kind words. So this week I'm thankful that despite not being his relation at all I have been privileged to have had an amazing Granda George xxx

NappyKind Legwarmer Review and Giveaway

Baby leg warmers ? What's that all about then? I see lots of my mummy friends raving about them but I have to admit to not really seeing the point for girls, I mean pop a pair of tights on and job done.

But....

I actually quite love them, you see it means I can show off our cute cloth bottoms and change our nappies dead easily without the faff of taking tights on and off. 

So we had a little peruse of the NappyKind website and we chose a lovely cream pair with little hearts all over, they go on easily and look very cute...

They washed well in the washing machine and there was no shrinkage which is always a good thing . They are great to go under trousers as an extra layer and I think they will be brilliant in the upcoming 'crawling months'

The website also have a lovely selection of shoes, clothes and gifts. 

I have two pairs of these to give away simply enter via rafflecopter below.

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Someone Call The Lifegaurd

Just recently I feel a bit swept out to sea, please forgive lots of water metaphors but, when describing my feelings to Spartacus this was the theme that I found helped. 

So here it goes...  just lately I feel like I'm swimming against the current and struggling to keep my head above water and I feel like I need saving. 

I've felt like this before, with both of the big two I've sailed happily until about the 6 month mark, then the wobble starts. Now I'm unsure if it's the hormones, if it's just a normal phase or something more but I hate it I feel like I've lost myself, my motivation has dwindled  

So I've been feeling rather blue, Termite is no longer sleeping for good stretches, so I'm tired (what parent isn't, I hear you cry) which means I'm not on top of the daily functions of running a home, which in turn leads to me feeling out of control and muddled, it's a vicious circle! I've also lost my blogging way and feel uninspired and out of kilter. 

So I've formulated a plan, I'm going to undertake 'project streamline' I will be organised and de cluttered and efficient by springtime! I'm starting with a god de-clutter, then room by room we are going to re organise and rearrange, and I'm going to write lists and plans and we will be a smooth sailing ship once more.

Watch this space ....