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A Day With: Handful Of Halfpennys

A Day With: Is a fun series I am running on the blog. I love 'day in the life' style mummy posts. They are fun to read and interesting to see the way different mums manage their days. I think all mummies are superheroes  We all have our own challenges with managing our lives and running our households, but we get through it and that should be celebrated.

If you want to have a nosey at the previous posts in this series, here they are:

Today's guest is the lovely Nat from Handful Of Halfpennys. Nat is my favourite new blog from my recent discoveries. Head on over and have a look and I'm sure you'll realise why. Nat has...... wait for it..... 4 children under 5 (!!!!) and lives in a beautiful part of the world - North Wales.

I still can't fathom how one mother can manage 4 children under 5, and reading about Nat's day has me in awe. There's so much that she squeezes into her day and she manages it brilliantly. I would have expected things to be far more chaotic. I'm totally with you on the scatterbrain moments girlfriend. Actually, I think I lost a few hundred brain cells the very day I fell pregnant!



It’s a fact that Monday gets a bad press. ‘I don’t like Mondays’ and all that jazz, plus last week we had ‘Blue Monday’, the most depressing day of the year apparently. I don’t mind Mondays. It’s a clean slate in my eyes and I often wake up feeling pretty positive and raring to go. 

So this particular Monday I woke at 6AM. Baby sleeping soundly beside me. I toyed with the idea of a shower but downside to co-sleeping is I can’t really leave the bed area and get on with anything else when the baby is sleeping because he is mobile now. Experience proves if I did attempt to get him into his cot then he would spring awake and all efforts to get in the shower would prove futile anyway.

I lay watching him for a while and then he began to stir. 

He made me laugh when he did wake up because he got hold of my phone and used his pointy little index finger to scroll up and down the screen. 9 months old and can use an iPhone! I’m shocked. 

At around 7AM I went through to get the girls up and out of bed. They are pretty easy to get out of bed but they don’t enjoy a lot of movement in the mornings. Like me they prefer a slow start. 


They usually go to their school breakfast club as they enjoy it and living in Wales we get it for free. This particular morning however we were running late as I found myself with only two pairs of tights for three children so had to give a dirty pair a quick scrub and throw them in the tumble dryer! While we waited they all had breakfast and I made a coffee. 


My other half is fantastically irritating in that, he doesn’t get up for work until he absolutely has to. How much more smoothly my mornings would run if he would get up and give me a hand with the children. But what am I saying, don’t you know he has a long, stressful day in the office ahead?! 

Once they were all dressed I walked them the short distance to school. Its a lovely little school, the one I went to myself. 

After walking home three children lighter I did a quick de-clutter of the living area and sat down to feed the baby. Isn’t it amazing how much mess you can make just getting out of the door in the morning! 

Jasper fell asleep and I decided to use the minutes not to torture myself catching up on never ending jobs but to lay my head back and close my eyes. He still wakes a few times a night and it's so rare I get chance to catch up on the sleep. In the end he slept for over an hour so by the time he woke I only had time to quickly rinse the dishes, make the beds and change his nappy before we had to head out the door to pick my youngest girly up. She is 3 so only does half days.

Does anyone else have a lot of scatterbrain moments? I can’t remember if I have always been like this. I headed to the shop to get a few essentials and avoid the ‘Can I have?’ aspect of shopping with a three year old. When I got to the till I realized I didn’t have my purse despite being sure I checked it was in my bag. I was forced to leave my shopping items there to collect later on. Only once I had left and was standing in the playground my purse magically re-appeared in my bag. So back to the shop we headed! With plenty of ‘Can I have?’ for good measure. 

In the afternoon we popped over to my Mum’s for a coffee. She lives only a few doors down so we often go over after Lola has finished school. We stayed an hour or so and then came home with the intention of doing something productive but decided to watch Beauty and the Beast instead! And Jasper had another nap. 

When it was time to collect the older girls Lola decided she didn’t want to come and so my Mum came across to sit with her, which she often does. Lola hasn’t napped in the day for a long time but especially since starting school she struggles to make it through to bedtime in good spirits. 


I collected the girls from school, as usually they were weighed down by a pile of drawings each. The paper that school must go through just for my kids alone is unthinkable! They are currently very interested in a house being built near the school so we have to stop by there and check the progress each day. It’s taking shape far too slowly for our liking! 

Once we got home and sorted ourselves out it was nearly 4PM. Since school has become a part of our lives the days seem so much shorter. The children played while I got some washing done and sorted out uniforms for the morning. 

Once my other half was home at 5:30 I made beef and broccoli in ginger and soy sauce with rice. It wasn’t the tastiest dinner but hey! We were all fed. 

I headed upstairs to fold some washing away and was joined by all three girls. I was grateful as it takes so long on my own. They’re a big big help. 

Bedtime rolled around and we stuck to our usual routine, my other half gets the girls ready and I deal with the baby. I feed the baby in my room until he falls asleep and then attempt a seamless transfer to the cot that sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t! After I have him in bed I go through and do cuddles and songs and stories with the girls. 

That evening I scheduled a few blog posts and watch Jersey Boys, which is one of my very favourite films. I headed to bed pretty early for me at around 10:30, I can be up at 2AM sometimes trying to get ahead with little bits and bobs. 

So that’s our day! Always very ordinary, but still always very lovely. 

You can find more of Nat on her blog or follow her on FacebookTwitter and Instagram

Kat x

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6 comments

  1. How do you make it all sound so calm and organised? I have a grandson of 15 months and just to get out the door is complete chaos. Invisible purses, they match my invisible phone. I took it to tots club to take photos for mummy and daddy and when I got there it wasn't in my bag, huge panic. When I got home and looked in my bag, there it was! How could I have not seen it? #thelist

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    1. That's exactly my thoughts! She really does keep it together very very well. Thanks for stopping by x

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  2. How lovely that her children go to the same school and have Grandma so close by. :-) xXx

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    1. Yes, it sounds like such a lovely place to live and nice to have the family so close xx

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  3. There just aren't enough hours in the day. When the kids are at school hours are less to get stuff done before pick up and after school activities. Then after school not enough hours to have any fun with homework, tea and bed. Life is busy! #twinklytuesday

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    1. It's so true. Lately I feel like I'm running a marathon every single day! X

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