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?!).
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…
The end of November has been as understated as the rest of the month and even though part of me hates being at home so much, another part of me is quite glad of the quiet as I feel utterly mentally exhausted at the moment. It’s when I start feeling overwhelmed with everything that this…
The seasons are beginning to shift. Temperatures dropping, the first frost. The stillness of winter slowly starting to settle in. After weeks of rain it’s actually quite welcome. We haven’t been doing very much recently and I’ve been trying to enjoy the slower pace before the busy festive season kicks in. Here are my quietly…