Don't you know who I am?

I am an excited girlfriend getting glammed up for a night out with her man.

I am a mum cooking cupcakes with her daughter.

I am a manager balancing budgets.

I am a daughter getting a lift from her mum.

I am a friend gossiping on the phone.

I am a girl browsing the sale items in Top Shop.

Don't you know who I am?

Happy Birthday Mumra!

It has been one year since I first clicked publish and posted this.

I have been blogging my way through the last 365 days.

In celebration of Mumra turning one I have lined up some fabulous giveaways for my readers.

Frankly these prizes are so good I would like them all for myself but this birthday is not about me or Tabitha, it is about all of the people who read Mumra because lets be honest if you were not reading I would have given up ages ago.

So lets kick off with the first of my prizes up for grabs:

£50 BIG BLUE CUDDLE VOUCHER!

*15% of the spend is donated by the company to a chosen charity.

Big Blue Cuddle is not a regular online shop, it has a fabulous concept behind it.

They work with selected suppliers of the nicest, brightest children clothes that give them great deals on their surplus stock bringing all of us a wonderful and eclectic choice of clothes to buy for newborns to 10 year olds. 

Big Blue Cuddle then donate between 15% and 50% of the value of each sale to a children charity.

It is a fabulous idea and one I think needs promoting from the roof tops!

I have selected Children with Leukaemia .

THE LAND OF ME - DVD ROM AND ACTIVITY BOOKS!

RRP: DVD ROM £29.95 ACTIVITY BOOKS VOL 1+2 £6.95 EACH

If you have not explored The Land of Me website then you should pop over and get involved.

It is a beautifully illustrated interactive world for children aged 2-6 and I am honoured to be giving away one of their DVD ROM and two of the activity books to one lucky winner.

THE SISTERS GUILD PATCHWORK 'LOVE' CUSHION!

RRP: £21.50

Sisters Guild is one of those sites I spend ages spending imaginary money I don't have to spare on gorgeous things for Tabitha.

You lucky people get the chance to win this beautiful patchwork style cushion to adorn your little ones nursery or your sofa depending on how generous your feeling.

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So I'm sure you are wondering what you need to do to enter this fantastic giveaway?

I'm making it nice and easy for you all...

All you need to do is comment below saying which items you would like to win, could be one of them, could be all of them and you will be entered into the draw for each one you request - in return I simply ask you share your Mumra love with everyone by telling us your favourite article featured on Mumra during the last year.

The winners will be announced 13th May 2011.

P.S Thanks for all the support, advice and laughter you have given me in the last year of writing Mumra. x

The Gallery - Green.

We have been partaking in some serious park time over the last few weeks, fitting in beautifully with Sticky Fingers theme Green this week.

Tabitha loves to be outside, most kids do I guess. She is a real little climber who shows no fear and likes nothing better than scrambling over the play equipment. So it is a bit of a shame we have only just found the park around the corner with its little assault course a few weeks before we move away.

In a few weeks she will have to make do with her closest parks being Wimbledon Park and Wandsworth Common. 

Oh, well I guess we will cope.  ;-)

Welcome to the Jungle.

I have two settling sessions booked for Tabitha at her new nursery. Although I have no concerns about her attending nursery and feel she is more than ready for the social aspects I am a little nervous for her. I have talked before about my own shoddy social skills when meeting new people and I can't help but feel anxious at her first engagement with her new peers.

As I throw her into a class of children and leave her to find her way I am more than aware it is her essentially becoming her future self. The way she interacts with these children is so important, childhood friendships and experiences really do form so much of our longterm social skills. I think what makes me nervous the most is that she is kind of on her own with this task; she must make the decisions of who she likes and who she doesn't, who she spends her day playing with and who she steers away from. 

What can I really do to help? 

I know. 

I shall give her an excellent outfit, make sure she smells of vanilla and stick on a name badge. I mean, who could resist a well dressed child who smells of cake and has a face like that anyway?

Mumra Playlists - Week 10.

This may sound strange given my weekly playlists, but I have always had a bit of a problem with remembering song titles and words. Yep, I'm one of those people who says ' it goes...la,la,la dah dah dah....' I don't sing songs, I mumble and hum along because I really struggle to remember individual lyrics. 

That is except one song, etched into my mind from repetitive play during my teenage years. I can not hear it for years at a time it doesn't matter I know all the words every single one....

The theme this week is:  What song do you know every word to?

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To join in with Playlists simply blog your choice, give Mumra a mention so people know where to join in if they want to and link up so we can all see it.

If you don't blog you can still join in, just add the utube link straight into the linky with your name or Twitter id. Couldn't be easier...