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Simplified Mum Life

Nina A Spencer – Motherhood Mentor – Simplifying the every day for busy overwhelmed mums -Mum Of Twins Twice! Placenta Accreta Survivor, Mental Health Champion, On my own simple living Journey filled with adventure and travel . Embracing The Imperfectly, Chaotic moments of motherhood.
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Pointless Travel Edition – A Review

Last week we went away to the Norfolk countryside for a family holiday on the Saturday evening we had an impromptu BBQ. While we were eating we had a game of Pointless the travel edition that I took with us.

Since the new set of twins have been born I love sitting down before dinner in the week with a cuppa and feeding the babies with my mum and joining in with the pointless game on tv.

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The game is simple really you have to guess from a multiple choice the answer with the least amount of points.

This travel game is great for holidays like ours as it can just be chucked into your handbag.

So often now people are on their phone even at meal times.

This game made us actually talk to one another, laughing and joking about how little we all knew.

Grandad even said this was a great game for great family fun even though he had never heard of the game before and we ha to explain a couple of times before he got the gist of it (the questions are not really suitable for young children but older ones with a good general knowledge would be ok.)

This game has loads of questions contained in it so I think will last us a good amount of family dinners.

The game also comes in a full sized board game edition that has a free to download app that you can instal on your phone to give you the electronic score board just like the one on the tv program.

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I think this is a great game for evening entertainment.

If you love a quiz then this is for you!

Nina xx

*I was gifted this product however all my views are my own

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Dreaming of...

Dreaming of …….. Owning A Hot Tub.

I love the feeling of being in water. I think its something to do with me being a fire sign. It sort of calms me down.

It could be swimming, paddling in the sea, having a bath, lazing in a hot tub or even just a simple shower.

Although, I’ve never really been one for hot baths – you know the baths that make you look like a lobster when you get out. So hot tubs had never really been my thing until recently.

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We went on a mini break to the forest and stayed in a log cabin with a hot tub.

It was amazing to sit in the heat while all around was freezing cold. Listening to the birds. watching the nature in the trees, truly relaxing.

Since then we have been on a longer weekend break to Bainland staying in a safari tent with two hot tubs.

Since then I have been taking advantage of the hot tub at my local spa after Ive done my swim a few times a week.

It is so relaxing to sit with no bubbles and just listen to nature around you.

I’ve been thinking about us getting our own hot tub in the garden.

It wouldn’t be surrounded by trees as much as those in the forest but there is still nature about and I think it could still be quite relaxing even with the kids about!

Our garden is so much better now we’ve put a little more love into it and I think a hot tub is just what it needs to finish it off.

Now I better be of to write it in to our budget!

 

Nina xxx

 

 

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Feeling unwelcome at the library.

Last Monday Started badly, so to save ourselves from ourselves I headed to the library for somewhere safe and peaceful to go.

I started by getting a coffee cos you know coffee can help foul moods.

The kids picked books and I started feeding the babies one at a time while the kids took it in turns to read to me!

Not an easy task for Jake. He’s less confident a reader and gets tired quickly.

As I was listening to reading and feeding, a lady kept walking past where we were sitting. She kept giving us quite unwelcoming looks.

She came into the area at one point to rearrange some books.

Jake then said he needed a wee I confirmed with the lady that the toilets were down the corridor.

Yes she replied and quite snottily she snapped but he can’t go on his own.

I was feeding one baby with one other on the floor.

Melody had a pile of books out and we had a few toys scattered about.

So while Jake is jumping up and down due to needing a wee I packed us all back into the pushchair and headed down the corridor. When I arrived I couldn’t get in with the pushchair anyway and the door was locked. She failed to tell me this.

I may be being a little petty but I felt like she did not want us there from the start.

The disabled toilet and baby change was out of order.

Instead I decided to head out to the disabled public toilet across the road.

No. I’m not disabled. But sometimes it’s my only option.

I cried and cried that afternoon.

I felt like I was being judged for the kids not being at school.

Judged for having 4 children.

I really felt most unwelcome last Monday at the library.

*I went back to complain and the lovely ladies on the desk apologised for their coworker. They told me that they want families like ours using the facility and how sorry they were that I had felt that unwelcome that day.

They asked me to please return another day and try out the library again!

I will go back as the library is a great resource especially for home schooling.

Nina xx

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Crisis Point, Identifying Areas of stress.

Over on Instagram last week I said that our home had reached crisis point.

I just wanted to elaborate a little and make some plans to fix it.

I feel like certain parts of our life are getting out of control and I think it’s affecting us all.

I know my wellbeing is suffering.

Things need fixing before it gets to the point of no return.

I thought if I say my plans out loud here it will make me more accountable.

There are a few areas of our life that need some attention.

I’m going to split them in to categories to make it a little easier for me to deal with.

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Clutter

Problem

So this I think is by far the biggest thing that we struggle with and that causes the most arguments!

I dont want to become a minimalist as I do enjoy stuff and I enjoy shopping (What women doesn’t!)I just need to minimise what we have. There is that old saying if it isn’t useful or beautiful get rid if it! This needs to be adopted more into our house.

Plan

Writing down all the different areas that really need decluttering. And working out which ones are high up on the list of places that stress me out! The places in use and every time I curse because I can’t find something.

Organisation & cleaning.

Problem

To follow up from decluttering,  I need to a better way to be organised. Paperwork, clothes, toys etc. Although we have great storage in our play room we never seem to tidy properly.

Plan

The plan is to create a better schedule so that organisational jobs get done throughout each day!

Fitness & Health

Problem

Since having my gallbladder out it was like I was given free reign of food again. so I’ve slipped back into old habits of eating processed rubbish, take outs and too much naughty stuff in general. This has not only made me put weight back on but its affecting my mood and is contributing to my fatigue!

Plan

So in July its my 38th Birthday which means I’m only 2 years away from hitting 40. My plan is to get #fitfor40 . I have spoken to my doctor who is helping me to see what areas i need to change. I obviously know what I need to start with so creating healthy meal plans for each month, and making sure I am active each day are on my to do list.

Debt

Problem

Money is not something anyone every talks about. I really think this doesn’t help when it comes to getting in debt.

We as a family have debt, just like alot of people however they never seem to shift. for too long we have just moved our money around and around, we dont have an emergency budget and live pay date to pay date.

Plan

We need to get our head out of the sand and start budgeting. We need to take hold of what we earn and pay off those niggling little debts.

Home School

Problem

I feel like I’m failing and unorganised. Im living week to week with no real learning goals or plans.

Plan

Although I know I need to chill out a little when it come to how much the kids need to learn I also know that we need to tackle certain things especially when it comes to Jake. So I want to create some kind of learning plan. Setting different tasks up maybe each month. and

Being a couple

Problem

The littlest twins are now 8 Month but they are still in our room and they are still having moment where they need settling through the night. This coupled with the fact that most of our time lately has been focused on my health issues and raising two sets of twins means that arguments have crept up, date nights have pretty much been non existent.

Plan

We need to fit in dates more often. Even if that just means a coffee one morning at the coffee shop – (No Phones) Or an afternoon at the cinema.

 

They are some of the areas I need to work on. One other big issue is the kids behaviour. The past few days have been horrendous. I haven’t  got the energy to talk about it here It has to be its own crisis category suffice to say there are issues with going to bed, jealousy issues with the babies, sibling fighting with each other.

 

Please feel free to offer me any tips on the above categories. I appreciate your comments and encouragement.

Nina xx

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Word Of The Month

May Word Of The Month

April’s word of the month was Dare. Dare to say yes, dare to take on home schooling.

Well a month has passed and we have been so busy home schooling.

I have said yes more and I have taken on things to improve my confidence

April felt like a busy crazy month.

It has taken its tole on me I think.

So this month my word of the month has to be actually two words – Self Care

I will write in another post ways I can practice a little self care in another post.

I have many many symptoms throughout my body that have come and gone since the babies came along.

Most of them are anxiety and stress.

I need to work out throughout the next month how I can self care more.

One of the things that will help is our upcoming trip to Norfolk. Our First Adventure as a family during our gap year!

Join me on instagram following the #spencersarcselfcare throughout May to see what I get up to to boost my wellbeing, eliminate my symptoms and hopefully reclaim my mojo!

What is your word of the month! do you have any plans throughout May?

Nina x

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