I realised while browsing our Hectic Mum site today that I mention my little boy Kian quite a bit, so I thought I should put a face to the name for everyone. 

At our last photography shoot  for the Get The Label autumn range my childminder needed me to pick him up early as she had her son’s sports day, and as every working mum will know it’s needs must, so rather than not be at the shoot I took him with me for a few hours.  Needless to say my 19 month old thought he should have a go when he saw the lights, set and camera.  As ever with kids you need to take 100 shots to get one good one.

The results speak for themselves………..UK’s Next Top Model here we come.

I took last Friday off to spend the day with my little boy Kian, I had the day planned out we’d go to the park, slide down the slide 100 times, play in the garden with the dog, water the flowers and generally have an outdoorsy day.  Last week Monday through to Thursday was 75 plus degrees and blistering sunshine, however, the gods clearly anticipated my plans and when I was ‘gently’ woken at 6.30am by the musical tones of my 18month old I looked out the window to what I can only describe as ‘the end of the world’ weather, rain, thunder, lightening, we were just missing a plague of locust to round it off! So desperately I was wondering what do you do with ‘my heir to the empire’ when it’s pouring down outside? There’s only so many chocolate rice crispy cupcakes you can make before you feel like pulling your hair out!

 

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Every hectic mum knows that kids love helping out in the kitchen when it comes to cooking (but not cleaning up!). While I was searching on the net for a quick and cheap recipe you can kill some time with the kids, I came across this fudge recipe on Tales from the Naughty Step.

 

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