Littlest Zoom, or not so littlest Zoom anymore. I cannot believe you are 4 now. It only feels like yesterday that you were born, then 1, 2 and 3. It’s totally true when when they say that the days are slow but the years are fast. Some days I feel like I am not enough to keep up with you now and all of the creative ideas and games that come out of that mind of yours. I cannot believe …
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I was out walking before lunch today. It was really brisk and the cold made my cheeks sting a little. But the sun was beaming down on my from the clear, pale blue sky and it was just delightful. Feeling a sense of calm, my mind wandered and as I started to walk up a slight hill on an oh-so-familar walking route, I found myself suddenly carried back to the countless times past I had walked that same route with …
Yesterday I was getting ready for a quick walk. As I laced my shoes, I could hear the chatter of the sparrow family in the tree outside our house. The afternoon sun was beaming through the hall window and for a moment it felt like spring. Yet when I opened the door, I was hit by a blast of ice cold air – a reminder that spring is still some time away. …
So, 2021. The year was welcomed in with so much optimism and hope after the turbulence of 2020. But the year had different ideas and 2021 has, for me, been a cautionary tale. A stark demonstration that my resiliency to unforeseen challenges is not what I want it to be. Through the year there have been several dramas sent to de-rail best laid plans and whilst I feel I rose to the challenge, it wasn’t without an initial period of anxiety, …
The first plant I remember having that was truly mine was a spider plant. It was in a planter which looked like a cat curled up asleep and I kept it in my bedroom. When we moved house shortly after my 12th birthday, I remember spending a good chunk of time the day after we moved searching through my boxes of stuff trying to find it. Only to eventually discover it was underneath a pile of comics looking a little …
Zoomy, these last few months seem to have been full of adventures for us. Oh they have been simple things but we’ve finally been able to get out and enjoy the little things like a Monday-morning-post-school-run babychino. You’ve grown so much over the summer and you’re fast becoming a proper little girl. You are growing more confident in yourself and your abilities and it amuses us no end how you can go from being an absolute terror to being so …
It’s the last week of the summer holidays. I’m sitting on a concrete step on the edges of our local velodrome, watching Little H take part in a cycle skills course. Hard to believe it’s August as I’m in a jumper and jacket yet still feel cold. I’ll almost welcome September when we can stop pretending it’s summer and just get the warm jumpers out again! Aside from the perpetual chill I’m now feeling though, for the first time in …
Ah my Little Zoom, this fourth year of your life is already flying by. In the last three months your language skills have developed so much and your confidence is slowly growing now we are able to go back out and about in the world. You are starting to develop real friendships and you love to help me in the kitchen. Your hair is also getting quite long now but it’s so “curly wurly” that it still looks quite short! …
Then suddenly…you were 3. How on earth did that happen, huh? I remember the day you were born and yet, after the year we’ve had, it seems like a life-time ago. What a strange third year you’ve had; the year where you would normally be exploring the world and building relationships and friendships, you’ve had to be at a distance. Yet you’ve still thrived and thanks to your nursery experience and, in many ways, I think the abundance of time …
Today marks the one year anniversary of Little H’s school closing due to the start of the covid-19 pandemic. One whole year since my little girl’s final “normal” day in her Reception class; the final day where I was able to pick her up without standing in a socially distanced queue at the school gates with a mask. How has it been a year? Yet also, what on earth did it feel like before? I feel like I don’t remember …
