Every year starts off in the very best of ways as we celebrate Lola’s birthday at the beginning of January. This year she turned ten and I’m still finding it hard to believe that my littlest baby is now in double digits. I think maybe that’s why I’ve taken so long to write her birthday…
February is my least favourite month of the year but it seems to be flying by at the moment so I’m good with that. Pretty skies, simple pleasures and cat-related giggles in this installment of ‘things that make my heart happy’. I’m almost at the end of my sixth consecutive year of this project and…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…
January has felt like a looooong old month. Illness; readjusting back to the routine of school life after the Christmas holidays; and grey, damp, chilly days have meant that we’ve not done anything very exciting. Instead our weekends have been spent mostly at home in the warm – snuggled up under blankets reading, doing piles…
January feels like it’s lasted 472 days so far but we’re so very nearly there. Making the most of ordinary days by seeking out the little moments that bring me joy. Hurry up Spring!
Somehow we’re almost at the end of January. In some respects it really has felt like the longest month ever; the grey, damp days dragging out into infinity with the end seemingly never in sight. In other ways though, it feels like it’s gone quite fast and I can’t believe the first chapter of the…
January feels like it’s lasting forever at the moment. Ordinary days and ordinary weekends. Just life ticking on. As always, this project keeps me focused on everything there is within the ordinary to choose to feel happy about.
2020 feels like a bit of a special year, like an important shift of some kind is going to happen. I can’t really explain the feeling I have about it, I just know that it’s there and that it’s insistent. I try and listen to these kinds of gut feelings – the ones that won’t…
2020. The end of a decade and the start of a brand new one. It feels…different somehow. I remember being sixteen years old at the turn of the millennium and all the hype and excitement and trepidation around that – the start of a new year, a new decade, a new century AND a new…
Four years ago, on the 1st January 2016, I spontaneously decided to start a Happy Jar. The idea was loosely based on the concept of a ‘gratitude jar’ that I’d seen in a meme online a few weeks beforehand. It seemed like a fun activity for the girls and I to do together and I…