Last weekend, Munchkin and I took ourselves off for a little weekend away in the mountains, to have a little bit of time-off and a much-needed change of scenery. The Hotel Ermitage, part of the Evian resort in the French Alps, is big on welcoming not just children, but babies, and they offer a number of…

…Our first family holiday was so much more of a success than I had expected it to be…. The night before we left I panicked about leaving the comfort of all the little tricks and toys I had to keep Munchkin happy -the bouncy chair, the bouncy ball, the sling, the Moses basket, the mobile she…