‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.’ – Anne, Anne of Green Gables Like a lot of families this year, we are feeling the cost of living crisis even harder now it’s autumn. With prices shooting up and income going down, trying to manage keeping 7 children with everything they…
Author: Mama Beaumont
Time flies…
The summer holidays seemed to be over in the blink of an eye, and suddenly we had six children going to school! We really should get our own school bus allocated 🤣🤣 But instead it’s a round trip of 26 miles, twice a day 😬 in our BeauBus! Drake’s has undertaken his first days at…
Duckie, You’re Really Quite Lucky!
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! ‘Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?’ – Dr Seuss One evening, our very lovely neighbour turns up at our door, completely by surprise, with 2 orphan ducklings who needed some care! She figured we’d know how to look after them… well, no! But although…
Radio Silence
“Let your need guide your behaviour.” – Cheshire Cat, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I’ve been less active than I’d like on here recently… partly because we took two long weekends in May/June to enjoy our first camping trips of 2023! Our camping trips away were really revitalising – I feel a bit like a reset…
Goodbye, Biggie
Six years ago, we adopted some turkey poults, just a few days old. Sadly, this morning, we found the last one of our original group had died. He was called Biggie and held a very special place in our family. Brock especially developed a close bond with him, and he has been very hard hit…
15 Years Ago Today…
I became a mama 🥰 It has been the very best thing I have ever done, so much so of course, that I went on to have 6 more children! 🤣 I can barely believe my beautiful first born is now 15 years old!! He is now definitely taller than me, even when I’m wearing…
Foraging
“The best way to explain it is to do it.” – Dodo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland March/April usually signals the start of the foraging season for us. This year has been so wet, this bank holiday weekend was the first time we were really able to get out, and so we went into the Forest…
Family traditions
The Birthday Cake ‘When Alice had sipped from the Drink Me potion, she ate a cake with currants spelling “Eat Me”.’ – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland We have a number of family traditions, most of which came about entirely by accident… The Beaumont family birthday cake tradition is a very good example of this! Back…
Our Family – Eira
‘Though she be but little, she is fierce!’ – Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Eira is our youngest. She is 2 years old, and was born at 1.22am on the 20th December 2020. Saying she is a real character, is a little of an understatement! 🤣 In every way, she truly was our lockdown baby….
A Very Good Place to Start
Historically, I am a terrible blogger. I have several half-started, long forgotten blogs out there somewhere. This one was in danger of turning into one of those too, but given that this year I have decided to make some big changes, I decided it may be therapeutic to write about the journey. Apologies for the…
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