The Stylish Mamma

I watched a really good Podcast called Happy Place, where Fearn Cotton speaking to the writer Elizabeth Gilbert with a Pizza, which I am going to do on a regular basis. This is not something I'd want to do every week but now and again. I like to have proper family dinners, without social media or being on our devices.  As a kid we never had the internet and would all sit around the table and often the TV would be turned off, whilst we ate. We focused on what we were eating and would be told "Stop watching the TV and Eat your dinner" and I would take a long time to eat to the point my food would end up in being cold.  Anyway reverse back to forty years later I like to still have a family meal but watching something or I will play some music. I like to eat mindfully but I also love to do something different and having a Podcast whilst eating some Pizza still made me feel present and time where we can all be watching something and still be doing something together as a famil...

Shopping with my son I really wanted to read a magazine with a cup of tea. It took me ages to find where they were and not something I buy all the time now. Buying a magazine all the time, I wouldn't read them so would be a waste, so it is something I buy now and then and will on the occasion buy the Big Issue. I love to just have a cup of tea, Yorkshire Tea or Tetley Teabags and a the Woman And Home magazine.  It is good to read up interviews and just a break from books. I do love books but treat myself to a mag and do get inspired by many of them articles. Not just celebrities but normal folk where people have begun a hobby and now it is their business.  I remember reading about a woman who lost her legs in the London Bombings and became a wheelchair Professional Wheelchair Netball Player. It is good to have sometime to chill and on Saturday it was a rainy day. When shopping we each allowed us to pick 4 things to buy and it was good. Doing different things and having that ti...

I don't have a bacon sandwich all the time, but now and then with a cup of tea. It is good to have the things you enjoy to feel excited. I love my food now, being super fuzzy as a child and when I have a Bacon Sandwich it reminds me of my dad as every weekend he'd make me a Bacon or Sausage sandwich but found it super filling and wouldn't eat all of it, which my dad would get annoyed with and didn't like how soggy the bread would get. Now it is part of it, but a Bacon roll is a delicious too and nice to have this to warm up the body and feel satisfied and it actually helps with my appetite by being full and not snacking so much. The tea I normally have is, Tetley's or Yorkshire Tea. I do occasionally have herbal and like a bit of lemon and honey in the winter, in my tea. I like my afternoon cup and like to have a cuppa in the evening when reading my book before bedtime.  The book I am reading at the moment is The Street by Anthony Quinn. I bought it from a Charity s...

Hello and welcome to my site and for checking out this blog site. I am writing this as I have my second cup of tea for the day with, two slices of toast with Jam. This is the life.  Nothing better my book and a cup of tea which I do each morning and evening I love nothing better and make sure I have something to eat in the morning. I can't function on an empty stomach and it can be a bowl of cereal some days, we had waffles this week too, with Chocolate Spread and Maple Syrup and often my son loves Scrambled egg on toast.  There was a time I'd skip breakfast and not eat until midday. Mainly when I was working at a holiday camp because I wouldn't eat until the first shift of the day was be over and couldn't stomach food and  I did lose a lot of weight for while as I was moving more than what I was eating and drinking alcohol, a lot of the time and binge drinking is not a good idea. So now I will fuel myself when I get up in the morning to kick start my day and it has mad...

I am sitting at my dining table which is in the Living room, creating my monthly Newsletter check out Everyone can build a castle , with my coffee. It inspired me because I know people say too much coffee is bad, which in my case is true but I still love to have a morning coffee.  Picture I took of a Cappuccino  Frappes are off the cards as they give me a bad stomach but normal iced or hot Lattes I am fine with as long as I limit it to two to three days a week, as I do love going for a coffee in a coffee shop once or twice in the week and during the weekend.  I currently have a cafetiere and it is nice but a bit weak, but I like making my own coffee some days rather buying. It can be expensive buying coffees in a shop and why I don't do it everyday.  My mum and Stepdad have a coffee machine which I use it now and again as I have a jar of instant coffee, but would like to invest in a Throffer and be able to have a latte at home. I have tried sachets, but I would ...

I am writing a book called Life as a Bedtime girl and she loves home life. She loves her book and bed, married to an Italian and comes and goes as she pleases. Would we like to have a life?  Me in my Christmas PJs It is good to invest in making sure you have a good sleep and having a good set of PJ's can help. I don't buy PJ's all of the time, as the ones I have had have lasted for a long time. I like clothes, including bed clothes that last and it can really help to settle for the evening. Invest in yourself. I have had trouble with sleep and its getting to sleep that I have struggled with, but now I sleep well and having a bath with a pair of lovely and easy wearing PJ's have helped and helps me be productive the next day. Having a nice set of sleep wear has made a difference. I have to have a set that allows my skin to breath and instantly relaxes me.  Then there is bedding. I will admit I not one to wash my bedding all of the time like I know I should, but is a must...