Welcome to our home... by Elizabeth aged 4

I have been writing this blog since my daughter was just a few months old and today I'm thrilled to share with you her first contribution to it!

The lovely folks at KeepMoat invited us to take part in their My First Home campaign and share our home with you through the eyes of a child. I thought this was a lovely way of preserving memories of the first home that my children will remember and was keen to take part.

Elizabeth was sent a Kiddizoom Twist Plus camera from VTech and asked to create a video of our home tells us about the things she loves and showing us her favourite places. She loves taking photographs and i'm always finding evidence of her photography skills on my phone! However this was the first time she had really taken any video so I did have to help her with some of the filming but she soon got the hang of it! The tour of the house and the things she chose to video and talk about were totally her choice and it as really interesting to she what she chose to talk about! It made me open my eyes a little bit more and actually look at some of the things in our home that I usually take for granted.

So here it is, my little girl's first vlog...

Welcome to our home by Elizabeth aged 4:

This post is Elizabeth's entry into the My First Home Blogger Competition from Keepmoat.

Talking Motherhood with Cussons - #voiceofmums

How would you describe motherhood in sixty seconds?

I was recently asked to do just that by Cussons Mum & Me, who have just launched the #VoiceofMums campaign. They are listening to real mums and want you to join in the conversation.

Cussons realise that being a Mum isn't like it looks in the glossy magazines. In the real world we don't have a make up team on hand to make us look like we've had a full twelve hours, there's no way we'd change our baby on a cream fabric sofa (or in fact own a cream fabric sofa!) and that we're more concerned about wearing clothes that have easy milk access than the latest designer brand...

They've created a really entertaining video with some fellow Mums who sing about their own experiences to the tune of a popular nursery rhyme, it's fun, catchy and will have you singing along in no time!

Luckily (for you!) they did not ask me to sing, however you can watch me sharing my thoughts on motherhood in this quick 60 second video below (excuse my voice as ironically I had the flu when I recorded this!)

In my video I talk about how amazing it is to become a mum but also that it's not all cuddles, smiles and bedtime stories. It is hard work, it involves copious amounts of snot, poop and crying and life is never just about you again.

As you know though, the rewards far outweigh anything else and it's all worth it (in the end!)

Cussons have listened to us real Mums and worked together with over 1200 mothers to come up with their new range which includes the Baby Bath to Comfort Snuggles which is designed to soothe babies' little noses and hopefully help reduce the amount of snot that us Mums have to deal with!


This post has been written in collaboration with Cussons and their #voiceofmums campaign