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 …
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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 …
Today marked a symbolic day – Little H returned to school for the first time since she left for her Christmas holidays. It was a day I almost couldn’t imagine happening, but as she walked through those gates today, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. Not only was she back where she wanted to be, but the responsibility for educating her was back with the professionals. Thanks to the covid-19 pandemic, Little H has spent 100 days from …
It will come as no surprise to those who know me well that a large proportion of the accounts filling my Instagram feed are focused on the topics of organisation, productivity and well-being. (The rest are accounts about plants…obviously.) Over recent months I have invested a lot of time curating my feed so that it only features things that I find motivating, inspiring or rejuvenating – looking at how to enhance and refine aspects of my life is something I …
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 …
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 …
