Looking through my blog you might think life was pretty perfect with three little Princesses. Mostly I write about the good stuff, days out and fun we've had. I fill it with cute pictures of well behaved children….well sometimes it's not perfect and like everyone's else children, sometimes they play up.

On a recent adventure to search for some snowdrops and the first glimpse of the promise of Spring, we experienced one of those days. We did our research and discovered Rococo garden, Painswick, Gloucestershire had an amazing display. As well as the pretty flowers, they had a wood to run around, a maize to explore and a cafe with cake. The girls were quite happy to go. They were told they couldn't pick flowers but they could run and play.

* Please note Husband took all of these photos as I had my hands full with a grumpy child!

 

All was good until about 15 minutes into our adventure (which everyone was really enjoying), then Rosie turned into miserable, whining, crying little thing. It was awful. I tried every parenting tactic I could think of to cheer her up from asking what was wrong, to distraction, reassurance & cuddles, trying to make her smile and giggle until finally I got cross! I didn't shout and scream but she knew she was in trouble. Nothing worked though.

Everyone was looking at us, I felt like a terrible Mum and parent who couldn't control her daughter. It was pretty awful. Despite that though, the place itself was gorgeous. Steeped in history it was interesting as well as beautiful. We would definitely go back again….maybe when it's a bit warmer.

Despite her grumpiness, there were a few smiles and we did manage to get some lovely family photos:

 

 

It really was a lovely place to explore and we would recommend. Despite Rosie turning into the devil child we are enjoying getting out and out at weekends and writing them up every week too. In fact some weeks we are getting out more so I have a little stock pile of these posts now.

Karen x