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 »
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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 »
Summer 2020: a bucket list update
Back at the beginning of the Summer we were looking down the barrel of 6 more weeks at home after already spending 17 weeks on lockdown. I wasn't sure how to make the Summer stand out for us and instead of our usual massive Summer bucket list, we kept it simple with 6 things to aim for in our final ... READ MORE »
6 things in 6 weeks of summer
As 6 weeks of summer stretches out before us, I am a little overwhelmed by the challenge to trying to make this summer special. Last year, we were so excited for the summer. With 6 glorious weeks of freedom ahead of us, we loved every day. This year though, the challenge will be to try and make the ... 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 »
Where I am…and where am I
Confused? Yeah, me too. It's been a while since I've had a personal post and to be honest it's because my head is full of the chaos of the world, but I don't really know what to say. There is just so much going on at the moment that I don't seem to be able to find the words to articulate the ... READ MORE »
How We’re Planning to Celebrate VE Day
Tomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of VE day. Although both my children are only KS1 at primary school, I was surprised not to see anything in their home schooling provided by their teachers this week. I think it's incredibly important for our children to understand our history and so, off to ... READ MORE »
3 ways to have a great Easter in lockdown
Needless to say this is going to be an Easter with a difference. With a semi lockdown in place and social distancing in the forefront of everyone's mind, Easter isn't cancelled in our house but we will be doing a few things to try and make it a little more special for the kids this year. ... READ MORE »
Stop trying to keep things normal, because they’re not
Today is our third day home schooling and our second day on lockdown. My kids are currently sat enjoying a movie while they eat their lunch - despite it being a lovely day outside - and I'm grabbing a quick 15 minutes at my laptop while they're happy. Is this normal? No. Is this structured ... READ MORE »
This Mama Loves….January
I'm making a few changes on the blog this year, stripping it back from what I think people want to read and instead concentrating on what I want to write. This was always meant to be a space for me to simply write and create a scrapbook of our lives. That means that things are going to getting a lot ... READ MORE »
This year I want…..
Bollocks to resolutions. This is the year that I am unashamedly listing all the things that I want. Who's with me?? ... READ MORE »
What’s inside our Christmas Eve box
We started our Christmas Eve box tradition when Darcie was born and it's something that we have continued to do each year. This year is no different and I thought I would give you a quick sneak peek as to what we put inside it. Now just to clear our Christmas Eve box contains no toys at all as to ... READ MORE »
