Captcha-n Me! It's Saturrrrday!

Tweety needs your help to Captcha-n him outta here.... Think of a witty caption for this pic and leave it in the comments... ya'll know the drill :)

Want more? Head over to the SatCap Queen... Mummy Mishaps , (Mammasaurus is away.. sunning herself in the Algarve!) there's stacks of loveliness waiting over there for you too! Or TWEET about it.. ha! See what I did there?! #SatCap

Love of the Day: Books!

The lovely Louise over at Sprinkle of Glitter is hosting a cool meme - Love of The Day. You can tweet about it here: #LOTD . Today's Love of the Day is BOOKS!  I went over and bought the book she recommended straightaway - haha, what a spendthrift I am. 

My book love of the day would have to be this one which I found via Meg's blog:

I am LOVING this book, all crafty things by Bloggers! So nice to see these bloggers in book format and the stuff they show you how to make is amazing! If you click HERE you will be directed to Amazon where you can Look Inside the book before you buy - so clever.

Hope you love it, I do :)

Join in over at Sprinkle of Glitter's blog!

Breathing life into Blogging

Standing nervously on a crowded train in Central London. Desperately trying not to look nervous. Stupidly excited for what lies ahead.

Adjust my top.

Suck in my tummy.

Pretend not to be nervous.

Breathe.

Apply more lip gloss. I have so much of it on by now, I can barely form a word without sounding sloppily drunk.

Check the tube schedule for the umpteenth time.

Realise I'm on the wrong tube line thing.

Panic.

Breathe.

Apply more lip gloss.

Change trains 10 times.

Race manically to Britmums Live Venue with 2 minutes to spare.

Breathe.

Find Sew Scrumptious.

Insult her on being tall.

Panic.

Breathe.

Suddenly realise that the blogs I read every day are really written by REAL people... These people Breathe.

Scan the room desperately for bloggers I feel I already know through their blogs. Search my brain desperately for clues on how to recognize people.

Is that 'So-and-So?' She looks taller/shorter/thinner/blonder in real life. Did SHE just have a baby??!! How long is it since I read her blog?

Panic.

Breathe.


Spend a day and a half falling in love with blogging. Again. Listening to awesome speakers. Frantically scanning people's boobage to read their name badges. Walking up to total strangers with a big smile, saying hello, and hoping they know who the hell I am.

They do. 


More people recognize me than I had ever imagined. 90% of people ask me where my bubblegum is :)


90% of people ask me what the heck a Lovebump is. It's a nicer name for a goosebump. There you have it :)

Realising that some people use their blogs as a creative outlet, or an escape, and they are absolutely NOTHING like they come across in their blogs. And that's cool too.

Get told numerous times I have the coolest tshirt in the world.

View Original Size??!! I have no idea where those words came from. This is the original size. 

Relax.

Breathe.

Learn stuff.

A lot.

Laugh.

A lot.

Drink booze.

A lot.

Make friends.

A lot.

Vow to Blog.

A lot.

Breathe. 

On our way!

On our way to Britmums live! Whoop whoop! If you're going, hunt me down..

My very first blog post - FOUR years ago!

Four years.. Four years??!! I can't believe I've been blogging that long!

So, here's my first-ever, Cringe-Worthy post.... Enjoy!

So, I thought I would shock you all my faithful friends, and start a 'Blog' of my own. Yes, I am known to be the WORST person to keep in touch via email / sms, so if I put it all in here, you can all update yourselves on my life in one shot :) Welcome to Blogging!

My mom & I have always said we should 'write a book' on the things that have happened in our lives over the years, so hopefully this will be the start of a best-selling novel on simply: Life, As we know it.

Today I have waitressed in the family restaurant. Yes, me, serving customers... you can all stop laughing now. If I think about the jobs I have had in the last 6 years, I could cringe. I have done everything from selling fake photographs of tourists standing next to Mandela, to helping moms less fortunate while birthing their babies, Hell, I have even been a taxi driver. The joys of being a young mom of 3!!

Back to the waitressing bit... this must seriously be one of the most underpaid, undervalued jobs in the world. If ONE just ONE more person asks me for a glass of water I may just collapse with hysteria. Today, I even had one guy make me take the free water back because it had two ice blocks in it, when he only asked for one block.... that guy, NEARLY got a mouthful of my wrath. But, I smiled sweetly, scooped out the extra block and plodded back across the floor to hand him his free water with a very polite "Im very sorry about that Sir, could I get you anything else?" Yes, I can be nice.

I came home, exhausted, at 6 o'clock to find a quiet, tidy house (shock, horror after leaving husband and children in charge all day) , dragged myself into the shower and decided to start a blog... this must be the best way to get rid of all frustrations. BLOG IT OUT! Shane called me to say he took the kids to friends to swim for the afternoon, and they are braaing. He has wrapped me up a plate of food, and promised to keep the kids out of my hair for another hour so I can 'breathe'. Oh yay.

Till tomorrow - my fellow bloggers, Im WAY cool now :)
Kez x

You've been Poked!

I am not one of those organised people who has a drawer full of Birthday cards, and extra presents stashed under the stairs for emergencies.  I wish I was. But I'm just not. So I'm usually screeching around Tesco's the day before an important occasion, desperately trying to conjure up something creative and wonderful for a friend.  Well, NO longer people.... I found this AWESOME company via the power of Twitter.

Hello SugarPoke.... Check this out....

One of the KEY things about this service is that some of their packages are Letter-Box Friendly... ie: you don't need to be home to receive your gift, it just gets posted straight through the letterbox - genius!

I know......  How CUTE is this? Just for Ewe.  Honey I'm Comb.... Love the play on words.. (check out the (Choc) Chip off the Old Block too - haha!   This package included , 1 x Tiffin Bar - Anyone for Tiffin? 1 x Pack of Chocolate Limes, 1 x Brilliant Brownie - these brownies are soooo good... This box Retails for just  £4.99 and 1st class delivery is FREE! So if you order before 2pm, you've got a pretty good chance of getting it the next day - perfect for Lastminute Dot Com people like me.

Click here to see their Thank You gifts - great for end of year gifts for the Teacher, as each Sugarpoke comes with a personalised greeting card too!

Thank You Louise at Sugarpoke for sending me this lovely box of Scrumminess, I'll definitely be poking my friends more often - hahahahah!!!

*I was very kindly sent a Sugarpoke box for the purpose of Review. All thoughts, opinions and scrummy taste testing results are my own *

Me - Hanging around Lay-bye's again.

Just 2 little video's of me. Hanging around those lay-bye's again. (Make sure you watch both parts... otherwise I'll just look like a nutter)

Also, this is my #Britmumslive Video Meet 'n Greet - take heed people - this was filmed a couple of weeks ago, it's taken me that long to work out how to get it off my phone and onto the Interwebz. I'm a dumbo. I know. See you FRIDAY !!!!!!!!!!! Whoop!

Winner of the Spoil Box!

The Winner of my BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY is................

Joanne Dewberry!!!!!!!!! Well done Joanne! Hope you love your box of loveliness :) Click HERE to visit Jo's AMAZING blog! Fantastic resource for any Working Mum :)

Thanks so much to everyone who entered - watch this space for another FAB giveaway, Coming Soon!

Playing Catch-Up

Catching Up.  I wonder how many times mums say these 2 words in just one week? Me? About 3000 times. For Reals.

I have blog posts to write about the one day of summer we had.....

And a yummy scrummy BBQ recipe to share with you......

Exciting news about our PinAddicts Challenge....

This Awesome SugarPoke box to show you....

My spoilbox Giveaway winner to announce - Come back tomorrow for this one!!

My Britmums Live VIDEO Meet 'n Greet to upload...... WHY oh WHY won't video's upload directly to Youtube from my HTC Wildfire - I thought that was the freaking point of a smartphone??!!!! I shall not be beaten and HOPE to have the video live for you tomorrow.  Follow me on Youtube to stay tuned!

Actually, it's kind of in 2 parts. Because I was in a lay-bye while filming it. You know. As You do.

www.akickinthearts.com

But instead of writing all these fabulous blog posts & visiting all my friends in blog land, I am flying around 'Real World Land' a little chaotically at the moment. So, I'm off to throw some chicken nuggets in the oven, take 2 children to Tae Kwon Do at 2 different times, hang up some washing, pay some bills and have a shower.  Somewhere inbetween all that I hope to have 5 minutes to disappear into blog writing land and to visit all my lovely blogs I follow. Bear with me people. It's a process ya' know.

Come back tomorrow to see if you won my box of loveliness, and to laugh at my Youtube video - its a cracker!

Kerry xx

PinAddicts Challenge - Happy Gappy!

My PinAddicts Challenge this month has been delayed.... because we've been waiting for this little tooth to fall out so we could photograph the project. HAHA!  

 Finally, that sweet little tooth came out, and we needed somewhere special to put it so that the tooth fairy could find it easily. Enter.... The TOOTH FAIRY!

Originally pinned HERE

Here's my version.... 

We decided the Tooth Fairy just needed one, big, fat tooth of her own 

So, you pop the tooth into the Tooth Fairy's 'mouth'

And she magically exchanges it for a whole pound!

I'm not blessed with sewing skills, but even I found this project pretty easy to do.  So, what do you think? I'm even tempted to try a boy's version next, with a waistcoat and a pocket for the tooth - totally addicted :)

Ooh, I found these on Pinterest too - these would be SO cute to pop into the pocket with the tooth!

Have you made something you pinned on Pinterest? Head on over to Simply Outnumbered to enter your challenge, and you could be the winner of a £50 Gift Voucher, sponsored by the stunning Abakhan craft store!

Don't forget you can search #PinAddicts on Twitter too to see more entries, or join our Facebook page!

Caption Day - So... that means its Saturday!?!

Rollerblading = Mother's heart failure

Caption this picture & leave it in the comments! 

Head on over to Twitter to search #SatCap to see more Saturday Shenanigans, or visit the lovely

Mammasaurus :)

I don't know WHERE she gets this from....

Posing Shmosing

1 camera, 1 sweet girl, 2 big sense's of humour 

(or is it sense of humour's?? hmmm)

Just hanging around, on a wall, with my littlest girl. As you do. I have NO idea where she gets this from :)

Where's your Jubilee Spirit you little Critter?

Parks.

I am not good in parks. I never liked parks as a child, and neither did my Mom. So I'm blaming this on the gene pool.  DAMN YOU GENE POOL! It's nearly impossible to avoid parks when one has a child, let alone THREE children.

Now Beer gardens? Beer gardens I can just about handle. My dad runs a lovely pub in Dorset, and has a beautiful beer garden out the back with bunnies and chickens and .... oh my sweet lord....  A PLAY AREA.

So picture the scene.... we're sat outside on a sunny Sunday afternoon (ie: today) cold beer in hand, kids are running around tending to the bunnies, checking out the baby chicks and dangling by one foot on the monkey bars. All good.

A SCREAM.

A SHRIEK.

My toughie 9 year old daughter comes running over with a swollen lip.

"THAT boy punched me in the FACE!" Waaaaaaaaaaaa *insert loud, girl scream here*

Me (Motherly instincts kicking in with wild eyes scanning the play park for horrible critter that dared hit my child)

" Which kid Tayla?? I only see that 2 year old little pip squeak in the Arsenal gear?"

T: "That's HIM mommmeeeee!!!" *insert more loud, girl screams here*

A 2 year old??? For Real??

At this point, Horrible little critter comes over to me and hits one of my other children on the back of the head with a ball, and then runs over to the swings to kick the 2 girls playing on it.

*insert 4 LOUD SCREAMING GIRLS HERE*

So, I did what any mother would do and chucked my drink in his face and threw him over the wall grabbed him as he ran past and basically threatened him with never EVER playing on the playground again because this park is NOT for rude children etc..... ya' know,  all that mom talk....

Horrible Little Critter: " SHUT YOUR MOUF YOU FATTIE, LITTLE SMELL HEAD"

I think my jaw actually HIT the park floor.

Tayla looked at me and all she could offer up as compensation was... " Go Mom, if Aunty Meg had been here she would've kicked his little ass"

Well that's it, you're on your own from now on honey, as you know all too well - I hate the park anyways, and THAT little incident has just added to my list of reasons to hate them even more.

Ps. Where is my toughie little sister when I need her??

Oh, Its Saturday? Ok Caption this!

If you've been a regular reader of mine for a while, you'll know that on Saturday's we do this Caption Thang, hosted by the lovely Mammasaurus.  Basically, you dig deep into the intelligence of your brains and wit, and caption the photograph I publish here.  You can head over to Mammasaurus to see more and if you tweet about it, use the HashTag #SatCap!

Ready................ GO! Leave your captions in the comments!