School children bringing home germs

So far this month it been nothing but illnesses in our house. With two children in full time school you come to except germs to be coming home regularly but poor Amy has had the worst of it. She started with tonsillitis in October which lasted two weeks. The bigger children had horrendous coughs, high temperatures and felt generally miserable. We took them for covid tests and thankfully both negative. Then Amy started with the cough and temperatures. And the poor thing is now suffering with an ear infection. Pretty sure Alfie has an ear infection too! 

Hope your having a better November than us 🙈

I don\"t really have any nice November photos to share other than advert ones from my Instagram

So lets end with a picture of Amy between illnesses playing on her sisters tablet wearing her new gifted headphones. *previously from @Newbeeofficial code AREPE20 gets you 20% off   

Waking up to the smell of fresh bread discount code/link 20% off swan

Imagine waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread 🍞

I have recently received a @swanbranduk bread maker and now I don’t need to imagine 😍 I can’t believe how easy it is to use either! You put in the ingredients press the button to select the type of bread you want, select the type of crust and size and away you go! It has a delayed start function so you can make it to be ready just as your getting up or if your in a hurry there is even a rapid option! you could say I’m a little obsessed with it and you wouldn’t be wrong! Paired with the @swanbranduk milk frother you have an amazing combo. I love to use it for hot chocolate to make it a little more luxurious. 

You can get your self 20% off across the swan store with code MRSJONES20 just follow this link 

Swan website

Have you ever made your own bread? 

The Best Pumpkin Picking Patch

Happy October my lovelies 🦇

We went pumpkin picking at @delamere_farm_shop and omg I was so impressed with the choices. We usually go to Malpas farm but I find we spend a fortune on overpriced (sorry but that's my personal opinion) activities and the choice of pumpkins has always been ok but not wowed me.

Delamere doesn’t have the extras malpas does but to be honest I was actually really pleased about that. It was sort of a free day out with the children. There are so many free photo opportunities, so many different types of pumpkins to choose from. The prices of the pumpkins were definitely cheaper. We had a whole pile of different pumpkins and only cost £20. We spent an hour in the field choosing as Emily had to get the perfect one. Alfie definitely has ideas of grandeur he had to keep changing his pumpkin for bigger and better. Little does he know mummy and daddy changed his massive one for a slightly smaller one ( weighed almost as much as Amy at 8kgs). It was still double the size of the others that we got 🙈

Do your children always want the biggest like Alfie?
Perfect one like Emily or the first one like Amy?

 

Exante diet and discount

Hi my lovely’s I have something different for me to share today, I have joined Exante. Discount code at bottom of page.

Anyone who knows me knows how much I want to lose weight. It’s not a new thing, I have always wanted to lose weight, but right now I want to lose weight to feel more confident having pictures taken with my children. I have touched on this subject before on my Instagram. I am now working my butt off and Exante is giving me the opportunity to try so many amazing products and giving me the boost I need.

In my first week I have managed to lose 6lbs. I have loved trying all the products. I haven’t had the same thing twice yet. 

My favourites have been the birthday cake bar, the lemon pancakes and the berries and cherries shake.

There are so many things I can’t wait to try and every meal time I get excited to look in my big box and choose what to eat!  I’m already thinking what shake to have for breakfast, I’m thinking chocolate orange or maybe strawberry and banana. Tomorrow I am definitely trying the chocolate orange shake and the mint chocolate cookie! 

  

This is the Exante 4 week box                            My fav birthday cake bar

Lemon pancakes are so good! 

Fav shake so far cherries and berries made in my blendjet using ice and water. 

For a massive 35% discount click this EXANTE LINK and use code MRSJONES

to start your weight loss journey.

Sophie xoxo

Alfie and discovering his multiple allergies including milk, eggs and soya

Hello my lovely’s  

I thought I would start back with a post about Alfie’s allergies and the misery and heartache that comes with an undiagnosed allergy baby. 

When I first had Alfie he was AMAZING that first two weeks was bliss. He took to breastfeeding amazingly (after having tongue tie cut), it was nothing like when I fed Emily. He slept so well. So much so that we had to go back up to the hospital as they were worried about how much he was sleeping (they then decided he was just a sleepy baby). After that honeymoon period he just cried 24/7. He wouldn’t be as bad when I was sat on the birth ball bouncing cuddling him upright to music. But any other time well, it was kind of hell. It took 12 weeks to start getting Alfie’s allergies under control this helped but not completely. Little did we know how many were going to pop up when we started weening! Everyday when I was putting Emily down for a nap at 11am I would put him in the Moses basket with white noise on the telly so I could make it really loud. I would then have the iPad on noise for Emily and I would cry to Emily I’m sorry, I was sorry that he came in and disturbed our time, I’m sorry I couldn’t play like we used to, I’m sorry this noisy little thing never stopped crying. I loved him but I also didn’t want to be around him. I really didn’t want to ‘put him on anyone’ either. 

I had always gone to langue and play with Emily on a Thursday morning. Emily loved it and called it Hayley’s school (the leader of the groups name and it was in a school hall). After Alfie was born it was harder to take her but we always went Hayley and Emma would help me with Alfie so I could get time back with Emily. Other days my mum and dad would have him for the morning and I remember one morning when I knew my dad was coming to pick us up, I just broke down crying, Hayley knew straight away what it was and I think a lot of people saw it coming. My health visitor wasn't around as she was off sick so I literally had no medical person who would listen to me about how bad he was to be around. Their was a lady who we saw for his weight and eventually it wasn't going up as it should and we got referred to the hospital. But that wasn’t the end of it. We had an urgent referral that only took 3 days! The relief that we were going to see doctors who were going to help us was amazing. 

Our appointment couldn’t of gone better. The doctor took down all of the symptoms Alfie was expecting, green explosive mucusy (sometimes bloody) poo, constant screaming, poor weight gain. He measured him and checked him over. Said plan of action would be a week lacto free milk. Then if that didn’t help we would try dairy free for a few weeks. We were going to do blood tests to see if there was anything else that could be causing him pain or problems.

We were told to give it 2 days and they would get back to us with the plan in place and where to go to pick up the prescription milk. 

We left the appointment ecstatic so happy and excited of the proposed plan. On the third day I still hadn’t received a phone call so I called them. 

‘Oh hi Mrs Jones, we have decided to leave Alfie for a little while to see how he goes. Call us back if he drops below the bottom centile and we will have another look’. 

Shattered, all that positivity, the optimism that we were getting answers gone. I felt like a lorry had just hit me. There was no way I was laying back and doing nothing. I had already started to cut out dairy incase that was the issue ready for stage two of our plan. And I was going to stick to it. I wasn’t just going to stick to it for the few weeks that they had said I knew I needed to do something to help him, to make him stop crying and just be a happy baby. 

I will do more posts about going dairy free and weaning an allergy baby but for now I’ll end with some photos of Alfie as a baby and one of him now ☺️

I actually posted this picture on Facebook with the caption through all his screaming and crying we do get some breaks and see his beautiful smile. 

Sophie XOXO

Guess who's back! Back again!

Hello! Hello! Hello!

Extremely long time no blog! 

I will calm down know with the exclamation marks. 

First things first 

Hello my lovely's

So I said long time no blog and that's not quite true. I have been blogging on Instagram for about a year now. Not to toot my own horn but I am not doing to badly over there. I have a little over 12,000 followers and have actually had the opportunity to work with some amazing brands!  Including Holland and Barrett's, Cherryz, Starpowa, Blendjet, Exante and many more. If you want to check it out here is a link @mrsjones_plus_three. 

I had been thinking that coming back on here would be a good move both to expand and elaborate on my Instagram posts but also another way to share some of the amazing discount codes brands have given me. I will even put them on a page on the top bar so they are all easy to find with links to the websites.

As you can imagine after so many years off this blog my life has changed. I am still in the same house, still married to Charlie but now we have 3 little ones. Emily is now 6, Alfie has just turned 4 and Amy will be 2 in June. We don't have any pets any more and we actually don't want to get anymore. I have loved our rabbits over the years but going out and looking after them when the weathers bad with 3 children isn't really what I want to be doing and I wouldn't be able to devote the time a pet needs. 

Plans for this I want to be able to go more in depth into some of the things I touch on, on Instagram, things like the children's allergies and our experience of doing things like the milk ladder and finding alternatives. If there is more of a story behind pictures I have taken and posted on Instagram so far I will put the pictures on here and can say what was happening. 

I also feel this will be a great space for me to give a more detailed review of products I have been gifted and share on going experience with them. I really hope you will stick with me on my journey back on here.

This is a throw back picture from when I was 35 weeks PREGNANT with Amy. This is when I felt my best and you will find out more about that in a post coming soon!

Sophie xoxo