Chez Spud

Miss Clara, Diggy’s true love forever, turned 3 this week. She’s quite a LADY now, very grown up and quite the little miss. Diggy adores her, absolutely adores her and (phew) the sentiment is reciprocated in buckets. They are In Love and are to be married, apparently. The shrieks and squeals of joy when they [...]

Saturday…I helped my lovely friend Katherine relaunch her deli business at a local farmers market and it looked like this… Sunday…Diggy’s 3rd birthday…I made a birthday cake, the first one I’ve ever made (and one of my 39 before 40 tasks)…it turned out better than I dared hope and tasted pretty good (faints in amazement) [...]

There is only one thing more astonishing than how fast your children grow up…and that’s how fast other people’s children grow up. I think you notice it more because you don’t see them day to day but, even when you do, birthdays are a time to take stock and goggle at just how fast that [...]

It’s birthday season Chez Spud as Bertie turns 4 in a couple of weeks…which means all the friends we met through ‘baby class’ have children turning 4 too. We’re so fortunate to still be close friends with our baby group but the downside is that late August/early September is sugar rush a go-go.  We went [...]

Today we made a 4 hour round trip for a 2 hour children’s party. THAT’S how much we love to party Chez Spud! There were bubbles, cakes, balloons, cake, party games, cake, candles, cake, biscuits, cake, sausages and cake. It was preschooler heaven. The boys sugar rushed all the way home and both had to [...]