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…
The start of a new decade plus birthday celebrations should have made for a great start to the new year. However, Lola came down with some kind of virus (sickness & tummy cramps which led to dehydration, fear of eating, confusion and not enough strength to even stand up on her own) the day after…
In 2017 I took a leaf out of Suzanne from Inside Outside and Beyond’s blog pages and started tracking my year in numbers, measuring the year according to all the things that are important to me and which I value the most: family time; love and connection; travel; creativity; helping others and personal challenges/growth. I…
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…
Christmas joy.
At the start of December, amidst the chaos of moving house, we celebrated Ella’s birthday and somehow my firstborn is now a teenager. Thirteen! And only a few inches off being the same height as me! I can’t believe it. It honestly doesn’t feel like thirteen years ago that she entered the world, launched me…
The beginning of a whole new chapter. Quite literally, as one door closes, another one opens. Mid-December was busy with moving house, end-of-term festivities, work, Christmas (and birthday!) preparations and two children out for the count with actual, proper flu. It hit them one week after the other and I’ve not seen them that poorly…
What a month! We celebrated Ella turning thirteen at the beginning of December, finally moved house (woohoo!) and then both Mimi and Ella succumbed to the epidemic of flu going around their school. It completely wiped them out one week after the other in the lead up to the end of term and they each…
The start of December was a good kind of busy with a visit from my Mum, Ella’s birthday and finally getting a moving date. This month is always manic so throwing in a house-move along with everything else will be totally fine (won’t it?!).