I’ve been a bit quiet over here recently.  Various reasons really – I’ve had a ton of work to catch up on and implement for my day job that has meant late nights and even-earlier-than-usual mornings and I’ve been trying to organise lots of complicated (but super-fun) things for later on in the year.  I’ve got a…

Welcome to the first installment of Project Happy in 2017! It’s felt like an odd period between Christmas and New Year and then the girls going back to school, with Lola’s birthday sandwiched in between.  A big part of me was dreading the return to normality, and January is probably my least favourite month of the year.  The…

Christmas Week! A festive installment of #projecthappy today. I can’t quite believe that it’s already all over – it took me ages to feel even a little bit Christmassy (not until the evening of Christmas Eve if I’m honest) and now suddenly it’s been and gone and finished and we’re all already turning our thoughts…

‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house…children were struggling with end-of-term tiredness, Mummy was struggling with trying to get everything done and Daddy was struggling with stress at work. But despite all of this we’ve managed to have lots of fun and festive family time together, and that has made all the…

It’s been a funny couple of weeks. Odd funny rather than ha-ha funny. I managed to damage the USB port in my camera (don’t ask) so haven’t been able to access any images to upload to the blog and it’s been driving me nuts. The girls have been at their most challenging for a long…