The hot weather comes and suddenly the top shelf in the freezer gets full of ice cream!

I had these screwball pots left over destined for recycling but thought of a healthier alternative that is easy to make with the help of a little one (get everything out before you are ready for them to help as no toddler will wait once they see the toppings!)

Start off by getting all your ingredients, I used dried cherries and cranberries for the treat at the bottom, yoghurt and strawberries for the layers, glittery sprinkles and icing pen for the topping.

All you will need is a pen, some card and scissors to draw round the top of your pot to make a stencil shape or an initial and a spoon to layer in your yoghurt. Would work well with rice pudding too if they like it cold!

Pop your treat in at the bottom, layer in the yoghurt and strawberries and then place your stencil over the top and sprinkle away!

Ta daa! Also works with the icing pen!

And if they can’t finish it in one, however unlikely, an egg box makes a perfect holder!

Some days I sit back once the children are thankfully fast asleep in their bird bags (it’s what we call the sleeping pods in our house on account of Sammy’s nickname being the big bird when he was little, well he was never little, but you get what I mean!) and can’t always say I have been the best mummy today. No river walks, no feeding ducks, no arts and crafts just lots of cbeebies, maybe a Pixar film thrown in and a tea from the freezer that Annabel Karmel definitely wouldn’t be proud of.

However, today is not one of those days, well maybe we did sneak in half an hour of Wall-E!

We have had almost a whole day in the garden after a soft play session with a best pal this morning.

To end the day we had what is known as a “pirate picnic” really it is just an ordinary picnic with a pirate napkin left over from my husbands 27th birthday. But nevertheless Sammy loves it and we all had to dress up, sit on a blanket and not let the Westies eat anything!

With far too many distractions this tea time like putting the pop up tunnel on the slide and chasing the dogs playing tug of war with a disgusting dog rope that needed to be washed 6 months ago I decided to wrap up the left overs in tin foil and we had a pirate treasure hunt when Dada finished work! My husband works in the garage, literally! We converted the back to an office so we are so lucky that he only has a 3 second commute home of an evening!

Anyway, what a day me hearties! I am now looking out of the window with a glass of vino watching him push the boys on the swing! 

On a beautiful summers day, no wait it’s actually March (England appears to have firmly decided we are only to enjoy the British summertime around Easter), there is nothing better than to hoof the small ones out into the garden in the hope you might get at least 10 minutes to yourself! Today is such a day in our house and it made me realise how completely full of weeds the garden is! My “gardening” skills extend to slipping a chap called Bob a cheque for £20 every few weeks during the summer, it is worth going without a takeaway every so often so my husband says. To be fair to the man we do have a steep bank at the side which I wouldn’t even attempt for fear of dropping the mower into the path of the traffic pelting down the lane. All sounds terribly grand but really it isn’t.

So I thought of a quick game of counting the daisies to keep bigger boy entertained while we raced against the clock to see who could collect the right number of daisies first on the chalk number. Small boy who can only crawl like a caterpillar decided eating the daisies would be his contribution!!

Happy days!