Weekending with Us- Part Two- Lazy Saturdays?

Lazy Saturdays? Not in our house.

We popped into town to see if the library had any free range education/ Montessori books in. They did not. Nor did any of the libraries in the rest of our county, or the neighbouring county, have any of the 8 books on my list. They weren't particularly unusual books, maybe its all the cutbacks!

We were slightly luckier in a charity shop where, although they didn't have any jigsaws, I did find these beautiful Chinese bowls, which I snapped up.

  

 

My lovely friend Bev has quite a collection of these, which she uses with her minded children at Chinese New Year. It was lovely to watch them tucking into chicken and sweetcorn soup last time we did a 'Festivals Day', so I was watching out for some of my own. I'm chuffed to have found them.

We also picked up a threading toy for Beanie. Again I had been looking out for some cotton reels or similar for a while for him to thread onto a shoe lace. This was even better though, brightly painted wooden animals. He loves it!

 

The afternoon saw us doing some bits and bobs in the garden. The boys made a great raised bed from an old wooden pallet.

Just another lazy Saturday with us then!

Weekending with Us-Part One

Weekends have been a bit busy here lately. There have just been so many things that needed doing in the house or the garden that it seems like ages since we had a really chilled out weekend, just for us. So that's what the aim was this weekend!

With daddy often home from work by lunchtime on Fridays, we had planned for the weekend to start on Friday afternoon! So shortly after lunch we set off for a little wood a friend had told me about, promising it would be perfect for a certain over-energetic toddler. Expectations were high! We had been looking for somewhere locally for a while now, that we could go to for a few hours of family time. The essential criteria for our perfect place were:

• suitable for longish walks, that's toddler long! 2 miles ish.
• close to nature, with lots of things to look at, touch, collect and hear, but on reasonable paths for small people not to keep tumbling over.
• Not too busy.
• A cafe would be nice too and maybe a little adventure park.

After parking (£3, which we didn't mind as it was donated to the RSPB), we secured Moo in my lovely Joey Mei Tai and set off across the car park, only to discover these lovely specimens! Beanie was fascinated.

"Look Mummy, mushrooms," declared Beanie!

The wood was absolutely beautiful, and Beanie thoroughly enjoyed running off to find sticks, collect acorns and seek out squirrels, who were equally as eager to avoid him!

We found some lovely sculptures in a clearing, which Beanie said were curtains! I love a toddler with imagination, that uses their knowledge of what they know to make sense of new things!

 

We met and chatted to a few people as we wandered along the trail, including a lovely older couple walking their beautiful Jack Russell dogs. Beanie loved stroking them and kept saying " Hello darlings!"

 

It was a lovely place for a relaxing afternoon walk, it definitely ticked all the boxes we needed it to!