I haven’t blogged for ages. I haven’t wanted to I haven’t had anything to say. I feel like my body has gone into shut down mode. I feel numb every time I think about Rhianna. It is like I have literally morphed back in time, to this time last year, but without the crying. I [...]
Recently trying to keep on top of things, hasn’t been the easiest of tasks. Mainly because Baba has been at home, for nearly three weeks now, due to being ill as well as his Easter Holidays. Having him at home is fantastic and I love every single moment of it, but it does make working [...]
We haven’t managed a trip up to Whinlatter since the autumn as my car and winter roads aren’t a good combination. Today was finally a chance to get up there as the snow has old cleared from the roads and its warm enough not to be icy. The children had missed the Wild Play area [...]
Expectations. It seems that whatever we do, it will usually have some kind of expectation linked to it. Our lives are sometimes over-loaded with the sense that we must do this ‘thing’ otherwise we let ‘so-and-so’ down, or more often than not, we let ourselves down and it is no different in the blogging world. [...]
I just love the things kids come up with. The questions, the thought process involved, seeing their little minds ticking away trying to get to grips with the grown-up world. Well, not all questions or comments are entertaining, some are down right frustrating and repetitive and often have you grasping for a correct answer – [...]
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My Dad once told me to never ‘fob off’ my children. He told me, where possible, that I should always try to answer their questions and always try to tell them the truth. Parents do lie to their children though: some lies are sanity-saving (I will buy you that toy another day), some are spur-of-the [...]
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How did I forget? I was lulled in to the false sense of sleep – Millie’s sleep pattern was not perfect but was definitely bearable. Usually having a bottle between 10pm and 11pm and then waking between 6.30am and 7.30am with the very rare occasion of going longer or, even rarer, all night! I was [...]
My best-ever bargain was a pile of white china plates with blue stars on. They cost £1 each in the Whittard sale and I snapped up 12 in a trice. The following week they’d been reduced even further and I promptly bought six more. My whole family laughed at the vast quantity of plates in [...]
