The Beesley Buzz: April 2014

Kids in the Kitchen: More savvy cooking!

I'm afraid I'm going to point you to our Nectar Savvy blog for another bit of Kids in the Kitchen cooking this week - but I promise it's the last time I'll send you over there for cooking because we've now come to the end of our Sainsbury's Basics Cookery challenge. So after...

I heart my desk!

I've just made a new piece of art for my 'office'. Its a piece of pasta art. Why pasta? Because my 'office' is in my kitchen at home. So food seemed appropriate. I don't have a separate desk to work at, and I need to have my laptop set-up and ready so I've turned a little area...

Kids in the Kitchen: An epic week of cooking!

As you may already know (because we keep mentioning it at every opportunity!) we are one of 8 families who are finalists in Nectar's search for the savviest family. We've been blogging over at our Nectar Savvy blog and this week was week 4 'Food and Shopping' incorporating the Sainsbury's...

Reading in the Garden

With last weekend being DIY weekend for us, Miss T's playhouse got a mini-makeover with a fresh lick of paint to the roof and door. So Miss T got out in the garden for a play and to explore. She looked at the apple blossom on our tiny apple tree. Then spotted...

Respect The Pasta challenge 3: Re-respecting the Pasta!

Fettuccine, meaning 'little ribbons' is one of 600 types of pasta. That's right, there are over 600 types of pasta! With that many types of pasta - it deserves to be respected. No wonder ASK Italian are on a mission to get people to #Respect The Pasta. This the third of...

Kids in the Kitchen: Easter egg fun!

We don't have a proper recipe to link up this week to Raisie Bay's Kids in the Kitchen, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy in the kitchen - more about that in a mo. But first we had a trip to Sainsbury's to pick up our groceries for our Nectar Savvy challenge for next week....

Haba Secret Code 13+4 game: Review for The Toadstool

We recently reviewed a fabulous Haba ball track from The Toadstool and loved it. We had no idea that Haba also made fantastic educational games too! Having homeschooled for so long, to be honest I thought we'd already seen our fair share of educational games, and a lot of them...

April 2014 Draw With Me: Family and Miss T at Two!

All 3 of the kids got involved in this months Draw With Me with their pictures on the theme of Family. I absolutely love 8 year old D's picture of 'mum and dad'. He often notices when we argue and he really doesn't like that, so it was really special to see him draw a picture of...

Kids in the Kitchen - Iced buns AND Berry Banana Split

Miss T mixing the 'real' dough We have been so busy with our blogging over at our Nectar Savvy blog (please do pop by and say hi to us there!) that I nearly didn't get around to joining in with my favourite linky, Raisie Bay's Kids in the Kitchen. This week I wanted to...

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