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Jay's been working all hours at the moment so I've been solo parenting a lot. Now don't get me wrong I love spending time with my children but not having my tag team partner is really bloody hard.

I feel like I'm letting them down because doing fun things at the weekend by yourself carries guilt that Daddy is missing out, but not doing them means they're missing out. Its a constant battle of keeping everyone happy.

After a pretty awful night with Eva, she's taken a liking to our new bed and has decided she wants to sleep in there with us all of the time and a difficult start to the morning with two children who had apparently gone deaf and had forgotten any manners they had been taught, we decided that we would wrap up and go out for an adventure at some local woodlands.

We had a wonderful time roaming around the woods spotting things, we laughed a lot, made silly jokes and ran around. Fresh air and no rules seem to make the world of difference when it comes to how the children behave. 
I'm terrible for constantly worrying what people are thinking of me, judging me as a mother and questioning my actions. I often get told 'you're awfully young to have two children' and admittedly that really hurts. So when a group of older ladies were approaching us they stopped still and were constantly taking a look over to us, I immediately stopped the laughter and started to act more 'appropriate' and shuffled the children along. It wasn't until we were just walking past one of the ladies stopped me and said 'I hope you didn't stop on our account, we were watching how wonderfully you and  your children were playing. They look so happy and are a real credit to you, your doing a fantastic job.' I could feel my cheeks burning and a smile was on my face from ear to ear. I felt so incredibly proud of myself and my children.

So thank you to the lovely stranger I met in the woods on Sunday, you have no idea what those simple words did to my self esteem and I will cherish them in my hours of parenting failures. I'm making a promise to my self to not let my worry about others opinions stop me making the best memories for my children. 

Here's to acting a fool and laughing too much!



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I can still remember the feeling of fully believing in magic and fairies, I don't think its a feeling that ever leaves you. I've been following Amy (LolasLittlePalace) over on Instagram for a few years now and I've been desperate to get one of her enchanting fairy doors for Eva's room, as soon as we moved and her shop re opened I wasted no time sending in my order. 

The door arrived beautifully packaged and with the sweetest note on the front and the addition of a miniature key was such a wonderful touch. I read the note out to Eva and she was instantly excited about the idea of having fairies coming into her room.
The door comes handmade out of sustainable sourced plywood, painted and primed and then hand cut bunting is added across the door. At present there are 20 different colour options and even some holiday styles available. Once you've chosen your colour you can then go ahead an personalise your door with either your child's name or the name of their fairy. We opted for Blush pink and glitter as our little lady is a big fan of pink and sparkles so it suited her flawlessly.  
We picked a spot just above her skirting board not far from her bed and popped it on with the double sided sticky pads that come supplied. She just sat next to it talking to the fairies for about 10 minutes. She was so careful when trying to open the lock with the key (it doesn't actually fit so don't leave little ones unattended with it) explaining to me that the fairies will come when she's asleep and if she's a really good girl. 
Amy offers lots of great additional items you can add to your fairy doors, I'm going to get some more when Eva is a bit older and I can't wait for her to make magical memories. I would recommend these doors to anyone looking to bring fairy magic into their home. Check out Lola's Little Palace over on Etsy here.

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