In 2018, I discovered my old digital camera in a drawer at home. Little H was obsessed with the idea of taking pictures so I decided to give it to her to play with. What resulted was a wonderful mix of photos – some of nothing, some blurry, some bizarre selfies and some surprising gems. Many have had to be deleted because the memory card was full. But I grabbed a download of some of the ‘originals’ because, well, I …
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We’re in lockdown. Again. I don’t want to really write about the specifics of what’s going on in the UK right now but I whole-heartedly acknowledge we’re not in a great place. I understand the rationale behind the lockdown, the need for it. I also know that everything I am about to write about fully falls into the ‘first world problems’ category. But write about my woes I shall because, honestly, life is testing right now. When we locked-down in …
My Zoom-a-looma – how you have grown and developed over these three months. You are definitely moving from being a toddler and becoming a little girl. A little girl with so much energy, so much sass and so much gentleness all at the same time. You love us all so much – wanting to see us all first thing in the morning; dashing into the house as soon as we get home from nursery so you can see you daddy. …
Wow, what a year this has been. When the clock ticker hit 00:01 on 1st January, I thought the year we had ahead would be full of interesting trips, fun family times, getting into my stride at work, school summer fetes and sports day. But the world had different plans and after a quiet winter start to the year, this newly mentioned virus – covid-19 – brought the world to it’s knees as we entered spring. It was something none …
Every single week over the last few months, I have thought of at least one thing I wanted to write about on my blog. But once work is done, the girls are fed / watered / educated / contented, the house tidied and Sam and I are few / watered / exercised / have done all of our administration…well I just had no oomph to write. No desire to get my laptop out again to put fingers to keyboard. With …
Another weird period of life, as we moved into the second quarter of your third year, you were able to go back to nursery again. I think that was a bigger shock for you than lockdown, I think. But you adjusted back quite quickly and relished being with your peers and friends again. You relished the summer weather and the freedom of the garden, running and scooting all over the place. There are so many delightful memories from this summer …
Just as I think I am catching-up with your posts, you hit another three month milestone and I realise how far behind I am. This period of your life has to have been on of the most bizarre though as within a couple of weeks of turning two, we were thrown into uncharted territory with a national lockdown to prevent the spread of covid-19. Overnight we were all suddenly at home, as it remained for 10 whole weeks: together all …
So Little Z, I have been neglectful in writing-up your quarterly posts and it’s only as I now, finally, sit down to catch-up that I realise how neglectful I have been! As are rapidly approaching 2.5 years of age, here in front of me I have a list of highlights stretching back to over six months ago. But late is, as always, better than never and it’s always a pleasure to read through things from so many months on. It …
Waiting. For? I’m not sure. But recently, when the fiasco of pandemic life calms just a little, I have a ‘feeling’. For a while I sat on it and tried to work out what the feeling was. Then I realised it was a sense of waiting. That feeling of “What next?”. But upon finally recognising the emotion linger in my head, I was hit by an even bigger conundrum – why was I feeling that way? …
One of Little H’s favourite expressions right now is “Sharin’ is carin'”. She usually chucks it out there when someone isn’t sharing with her and conveniently forgets when we’re asking her to share more openly with her sister. But anyway, this phrase popped into my head when I sat down to start typing-up some thoughts I’ve been having since the start of the year on sharing information about my children. Now since we became parents, Sam and I have been …
