I’m late with this month’s siblings as, to be honest, it’s been a bit of a blur. This gorgeous pair and I have been tag teaming covid. First, little Man and I got it and then on our last day of isolation LP tested positive too. It’s been a long few weeks.

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Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows! I love this project, I’ve been doing it for so many years now and it’s always nice seeing who links up and watching children and families grow throughout the year.

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*This is a collaborative guest post from Liam Govey at 1decision

At 1decision, we’re very proud of what we’ve accomplished since our foundation in 2011, but we always look to take the extra step to go even further. With the launch of our new RainbowSmart App, we feel that we have done just that.

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*This is a paid post

Over the last few years I’ve come to realise that our family absolutely love the great outdoors – but only when the weather’s nice. We tend to go into hibernation mode as soon as the weather changes in September, not really emerging again until winter thaws in about March. Does this sound familiar to you?

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Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows! I love this project, I’ve been doing it for so many years now and it’s always nice seeing who links up and watching children and families grow throughout the year.

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Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows! I love this project, I’ve been doing it for so many years now and it’s always nice seeing who links up and watching children and families grow throughout the year.

If you haven’t joined in with Living Arrows before it’s is about celebrating childhood. The project originally took its name from a poem by Kahlil Gibran, “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth” and every Monday we share a moment from our week and invite others to do the same as part of this linky.

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Disclosure: We were sent the featured products for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own.

Every year, since the children were about three, we have got them Playmobil Advent Calendars for Christmas. Playmobil is a huge love of theirs anyway, so it makes sense to carry this on over the festive period and Playmobil always have a great range of advent calendars to choose from.

I have always loved how Playmobil caters to all children. There are themes that will inspire any child’s passions – from City Life, City Action and Dragons to Princess, Pirates and Family Fun. Whatever your child’s personality, Playmobil has toys that they’ll love and that doesn’t change with advent calendars.

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Disclosure: We were invited on this day out for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own.

Last weekend we were invited to Carters Steam Fair in War Memorial Park in Basingstoke. It’s the sort of day out we’d never been on before and the children were so excited – such traditional fun! We were so pleased that the fair was going to be fairly local to us and couldn’t wait to go.

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A Year of Nature Craft and Play is a new activity book by Becky Goddard-Hill and Catherine Hughes. Designed to inspire kids to get creative with nature, it’s filled with 52 crafts, gardening projects, games, art activities and science experiments to keep them busy all year.  Each activity uses materials that are easy to find in nature, so they’re low cost, eco-friendly and simple to organise.

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When we had our recent mini city break in London, we decided to do things that we hadn’t done before along with a few favourites. On the Saturday, we had booked a visit to Kensington Palace and its private gardens using our Historic Royal Palaces membership. We booked the slot in advance as it is quite popular and guaranteed us entry.

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