Dear Darcie I usually write this letter on the eve of your birthday. Staying up past midnight to reflect on the past year and considering the person you are becoming. This year I have done things differently. Instead, as you turn 7, I slowed down and simply watched the girl you are right now. ... READ MORE »
Letters to my children
To Henry on your fifth birthday
Oh my darling boy, where do I even start. As you turn 5, the world seems to be getting ready to take its first steps into a life living with Covid. We still wear masks, we still socially distance but there is also seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. A hope of hugging our loved ones ... READ MORE »
Dear Darcie – on your sixth birthday
Oh my baby girl, where do I start? What a year it has been. It feels like when the world fell apart this year, we came together. Although outside of our family bubble, Covid was literally taking over the world, I was privileged to be able to spend 6 months with you and your brother. We used that ... READ MORE »
To my children on your first day back at school
To my beautiful bears This post is so difficult to write because, in all honesty, I don't know how I feel. This year was always going to be a huge step for us all as you are both now in full time education. You into year one Darcie, and you Henry into Reception. However, the current crisis ... READ MORE »
Dear Henry – on your fourth birthday
Oh, my darling boy. I cannot believe that you are 4 already. It feels like only yesterday that we were dropping the Bear off at Grandma and Grandads house on the way to the hospital. You took a while to arrive after a complicated birth, but once you made your way into my arms you completed our ... READ MORE »
Dear Darcie – on your fifth birthday
To the one that made me a mummy. Five. Wow. I honestly have no idea where the time has gone. It's such a cliché but the days really are long and the years short as we already find ourselves at 5 years old. This feels like such a milestone age where things are changing. You are leaving behind the ... READ MORE »
To Henry, on your first day of pre-school
Oh, my beautiful baby Bear. Where do I start? I am sitting here writing this instead of turning up the hem on your trousers. No matter how much we looked we couldn't find a pair that would fit. That fact alone has my heart aching for your first day at school tomorrow. You still feel so ... READ MORE »
To my daughters nursery class teacher
And just like that it is the end of the school year. Last September I handed over to you one of the most precious things in my life. My first-born child. She was ready but I wasn't. I worried who would be there to hold her hand when she was afraid. Who would give her a cuddle if she was sad? Who ... READ MORE »
Dear Henry – on your third birthday
Dear Henry Three years ago today you came along and completed our little family. Arriving in a rather dramatic way, I was not prepared for how much I would love you. It's true what they say. As a mother your capacity to love only grows with each child and you my darling boy, are a very easy ... READ MORE »
To Darcie, on your first day of pre-school
To Darcie, my first-born Bear. You are the tiny human that made me a mummy and I cannot thank you enough. As I sit here the night before you head off on a brand-new adventure tomorrow, it just feels so soon. Tomorrow you start pre-school 5 mornings a week for the upcoming school year. We've seen ... READ MORE »
Dear Henry
Dear Henry Oh, my darling boy. I cannot believe that you are already 2-years-old. Perhaps it's because you're my youngest child or perhaps it's because I know you are my last, but I don't feel like I am ready. 2 seems like a big number for me, so much more so than when you turned 1. It seems ... READ MORE »
to my emotional little girl
Oh, baby girl, where to start. I know you think I'm just being mean when I tell you 'no' again, the truth is that I hate it as much as you. I walk on eggshell that the next 'no' will induce the next tantrum tornado. They arrive from nowhere, rage for an eternity and leave just as quickly. Mummy ... READ MORE »
