special treats

I love surprising this little pair. Nothing quite compares to the looks on their faces when I have genuinely surprised them with something they love. Sometimes I'll build a den at nap time, or I'll set up their toys before I go to bed so that they can get straight on with playing when they get up in the morning, or I might spontaneously suddenly decide at lunchtime that we are going to go to the bakery for sausage rolls instead of the usual sandwiches at home. I don't do it every day, or even every week, but once in a while; and they always love it.

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switched off

One of the little downsides of summer with small children

is that the lighter mornings often mean earlier wake ups.

Our children are, on the whole, fantastic sleepers,

but some mornings they get disturbed by the over enthusiastic dawn chorus

and the fact that it looks like midday by 6am.

Anytime after 6am I can just about deal with,

after 7am is the norm,

and any time with a 5 at the beginning is still night time if you ask me.

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