This week on Other Bloggers Family Lives I am featuring Janine from Janine's Little Word. Janine's blogs about her family life in Ireland, reviews, interiors, recipes and parenting topics.
So let's find out more about the family behind Janine's Little World.
1.) Tell me a bit about yourself and your family?
My name is Janine, I am a mum of two. There is Matthew who was born in August 2012 and there is Chloe who joined our family in February 2015. I work as a customer support executive 5 days a week. I am engaged and we are planning another attempt of our wedding as previously our venue closed down when we were supposed to get married in July. We have two cats called Bailey and Missy, the kids love them.
2.) Where do you live?
We moved recently to the East of Ireland, due to my hubby-to-be work. We did live in the North West of Ireland in a small town called Sligo.
3.) What is your favourite thing to do as a family where you live?
We used to love going to the beach as we lived 5 minutes drive away. We enjoy going to local restaurants and for walks.
4.) If you could live anywhere where would you?
My partner will probably agree to this 110% as I am always happy when the sun is out. For that reason, I would love to own a house / apartment in Spain. If I would have known the language I would have moved to Spain rather than Ireland.
5.) Did you grow up close to where you live now and what are your favourite childhood memories of where you grew up?
No, I grew up in Germany, in the North East part of the country. I have so many lovely childhood memories. I spent a lot of time with my grandad when I was a child. Our property was quite big so I spent my free time outside in the garden or yard building stuff, sleeping in a tent overnight and harvesting our fruit and veg.
6.) Have you got any exciting family plans for the year ahead?
We will probably go abroad in the summer as the kids are easy enough on the aeroplane, we only live 40 minutes away from the airport. There is so much more to do around Dublin then there was in Sligo for the kids too. I am planning to get Matthew started on swimming lessons because he loved it on holiday in Spain.
7.) What is your favourite thing about family life?
I love having time together at the weekend. As we both work full-time we don't get a huge amount of time during the week with the kids. For that reason, we try and make the most of it during the weekends.
To find out more about Janine and her family visit her blog www.janineslittleworld.com
Don't forget to check out the last Other Bloggers Family Lives featuring Mums The Nerd if you missed it.
I'd love to visit Dublin it sounds like such a lovely place. I love reading Janines blog.
ReplyDeleteI love Dublin, mind I haven't been since I was a child xx
DeleteThanks for having me. It's nice to read back on this. x
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for taking part xx
DeleteIt's lovely to find out a bit more about different bloggers - I already enjoy reading Janine's blog :)
ReplyDeleteHelen x
I am glad that you enjoyed it Helen xx
DeleteThat sucks that their venue cancelled for their first wedding plan, second time lucky x
ReplyDeleteI know I bet that was awful for them, hopefully they will find a perfect venue and have an amazing day xx
DeleteThe time we get as a family is my favourite thing too. We don't get enough of it.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you xx
DeleteAh it was so nice to learn a little more about Janine. Growing up in Germany sounds amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt really does sound like she had an amazing childhood xx
DeleteAw I hope you do get to move out to Spain and spend your days in the sun when you can. It is never too late to learn another language x
ReplyDeleteI hope she does too as it sounds amazing xx
DeleteYour childhood sounds amazing. Would love to spend more time outside and building things etc. Ive just followed you :-) x
ReplyDeleteIt really does sound like a perfect childhood xx
DeleteWhat a lovely series you have here! I would love to live near the sea - always been a dream of mine!
ReplyDeleteThank you Michelle, I hope you get to live close to the sea one day xx
DeleteI've never been to Dublin and this is somewhere that I would love to visit and take my daughter too, it seems so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI've followed Janine's blog for quite some time now. She seems like a very friendly person and is always supportive of other bloggers within the community - which is lovely to see x
ReplyDeleteAw thanks Fiona. It's so nice to receive such lovely comments. x
DeleteI would love to visit Ireland - isn't Sligo where the Westlife boys are from......well men now!
ReplyDeleteHaha they are. It would be a lie to say that's not the reason why I moved there initally x
DeleteWow such a lot of comments. My kids are very similar ages to Janine's with both our daughters born fFbruary 2017!
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