I am taking part in Donna from What the Redhead Said‘s Living Arrows – which is a celebration of childhood!
We could all do with a little more celebration in our lives!
To quote Donna, “The project originally took it’s name from a poem by Kahlil Gibran,
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”
and every Monday we share a moment from our week and invite others to do the same as part of this linky.”
Week 36/52 Living Arrows
Just the two of us
We’ve been flying solo since Thursday. We’ve had a great time, lots of laughs and bedtime routine continues to go very well.
RLT and the cat have become best friends in the absence of Dada. The cat likes the attention about 70% of the time, however, when she is comfortable and having a nap, her face resembles my resting bitch face, as seen in this pic!
Meanwhile, Dada continues to send me pictures like this of his Tour De Mount Blanc…..
Welcome to my brand spanking new guest post series, Mums and Music! As many of us don’t have the time to be going out disco dancing much anymore, this series is to give us mums the opportunity to reminisce about songs we may have forgotten, have a laugh at what we used to think was cool and take some time out to listen to something other than cbeebies theme tunes! This week I am very pleased to welcome Zoe from Mummytoliss
A little bit about Zoe
I’m Zoe, young mummy to 1 year old Alyssia, blogging my way through motherhood over at www.mummyandlissblog.com
A Song From Zoe’s Childhood
A Song from my childhood would have to be Follow me by Uncle Kracker, it’s a song that reminds me of my Grandad and that we still sing together to this day. Every time that my Grandad would take me and my cousins out for the day we would have this song on in the car & all sing a part each, it was so funny. I have such Good Memories from this song, I don’t think I will ever forget the words.
A Song that makes Zoe happy
A song that makes me happy would definitely be ‘This Life by Ryan Huston’ if you listen to the lyrics in this song it is bound to make you cry, but it really is a happy song. This is the song that my partner first sang to me and we have always said that this will be our wedding song. It will always be our song.
A song that psyches Zoe up
A song that psyches me up would be ‘Love Myself by Hailee Steinfield’ It’s a song that shouts “I love me, gonna love myself no I don’t need anybody else” I love this so much, is there a song that is anymore empowering? Always love yourself.
A song that makes Zoe sad
song that makes me sad would be ‘Yesterday by Leona Lewis’ this is a song that I dedicate to my Grandma, if you listen to the lyrics it will explain everything. We planned so many things, but never got to do them before she died. The song says ‘They can take it away but they can never have yesterday’ meaning that I will always treasure the days that we did get together. This song breaks my heart every time but it also means so much to me at the same time.
Zoe’s favourite song from a film
A song from film, well its got to be Shrek right? An absolute classic!
Zoe’s favourite theme tune from a tv series
A theme tune from a TV series, there is so many that I could choose from but now that I am a mum, its got to be Peppa Pig. This theme tune never leaves your brain.
A big thank you to Zoe for these picks, I honestly never thought I’d see the Peppa Pig theme tune on these pages! You can follow Zoe here:
You can find Zoe’s blog here Facebook Twitter Instagram
I am taking part in Donna from What the Redhead Said‘s Living Arrows – which is a celebration of childhood!
We could all do with a little more celebration in our lives!
To quote Donna, “The project originally took it’s name from a poem by Kahlil Gibran, “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth” and every Monday we share a moment from our week and invite others to do the same as part of this linky.”
Week 35/52 Living Arrows
Bank Holiday
We’ve had a lovely few days, viva bank holiday weekends! Life feels better when you know that there is no work on Monday!
We had our usual day together on Friday which we spent walking in the nature reserve and the local gymnastic centre open play session.
Then Saturday we went to a food festival and walked around the nature reserve once again.
Solo parenting this week as my partner is going to do the Tour De Mont Blanc! Rather him than me!
Welcome to my brand spanking new guest post series, Mums and Music! As many of us don’t have the time to be going out disco dancing much anymore, this series is to give us mums the opportunity to reminisce about songs we may have forgotten, have a laugh at what we used to think was cool and take some time out to listen to something other than cbeebies theme tunes! This week I am very pleased to welcome my twitter pal, Lisa! Lisa has recently been teaching me a thing or two about music and she isn’t impressed with the fact that I’ve never heard of The Used!
A little bit about Lisa
Hey, everyone! It’s Lisa here from www.lisacowan.co.uk! I’m a beauty, parenting and lifestyle blogger from Manchester UK. I’m a first-time mum to Imogen and although my music tastes seem to now vary to children’s tv theme tunes, music is very dear to my heart.
I was influenced from my mother and father in two completely different paths and discovered my own tastes away from the charts at just 10. I was always into rock and metal music with a bit of cheesy pop and fast paced dance. I was lucky enough to be able to follow a lot of bands in my teens on tour and went all around the UK and Europe to see them. I’m going to try and answer these questions without blabbing and share with you some of my favourites!
A Song From Lisa’s Childhood
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark.
This song funnily reminds me of my dad. We don’t talk anymore but it was always a song I enjoyed listening to and with him. It was only when I was older I actually appreciated the Boss and though others are my faves, this is my childhood background music.
A Song that makes Lisa happy
The Maine – Like We Did (Windows Down).
I used to follow this band on tour everywhere. I was utterly in love with their music and made so many friends and we all used to drink and sing until our voices cracked every single night for two weeks. This song just sums up the general feel good vibe that we had and it is one of the happiest memories in my life.
A song that psyches Lisa up
Bury Tomorrow – Casting Shapes
Bury Tomorrow have been a band I’ve known for about 8 years now and it’s crazy because they’re just getting bigger and bigger. This is from their first album and I get so pumped listening to it because it reminds me of stage diving a million times. So proud of the lads!
A song that makes Lisa sad
Blue & Yellow The used.
Throughout my life I’ve suffered with mental health problems. I have good days and bad days. The extremely bad days I can pick apart more than anything from the same songs I listen to. When I get to this song it means I’ve sunk and I’m on a spiral. It makes me sad because it’s a trigger song in a way and I can’t stop myself. There isn’t songs that make me emotional as such.
Lisa’s favourite song from a film
Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat
This song is from Mockingjay part 1 of the Hunger Games. I was such a huge fan of the books and read each one of them in a day after my pen pal (yep even in this day and age) from Australia sent it to me. She was so determined to get me to read them and I was a huge fan and followed everything to do with the films. I love Lorde and think she’s such a talented young woman.
Lisa’s favourite theme tune from a tv series
Regina Spektor – You’ve got time
I really really wanted to put Friends here because it’s probably my most watched. Followed by the GOT intro. I never get as excited as I do for when a new Orange Is The New Black series starts and I chant and shout the theme tune dead giddily around the house. You just can’t not right?! The animals.. the animals.. they’re TRAPPED TRAPPED TRAPPED til their cage is full THEIR CAGE IS FULL
And that’s everything! Honestly my music taste is so varied this is just the cherry on the cake! I hope you enjoyed reading my faves.
This is a helpful reminder to myself more than anyone else really, as I keep forgetting the code for hiding an image in a wordpress post everytime I try to hide a blog post image in there for my Pinterest page.
Some images look just odd on your blog, but work on pinterest. So to hide them from your blog viewers you can:
Upload the image as normal to your wordpress media gallery
Insert it where you want in your post
Go in to the text tab of your wordpress post and find where the code is for the image – it should look something like <img class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-2396″ src=”https://somemadeupblogURL.com/imageexample” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”235″ />
add this code before the start of the image code ( the one that starts <img class)
<div style = “display:none;”>
5. add this code after the code for the image
</div>
I’ve added the code in as text above so that you can copy and paste it if you need to!
