A holiday edition of Project Happy! During the Easter holidays we spent a glorious ten days in our happy place by the sea in Bude in North Cornwall and it was exactly what we all needed after months of stress. It wasn’t without it’s challenges of course (because what holiday is?!) but it didn’t matter:…
April has been a month of two halves. The Easter holidays couldn’t have arrived quickly enough after an intense fortnight of complete and utter chaos in the lead up to them. Work and school were overwhelmingly busy for each of us and there was some kind of event (sporting-, acting- or house-related) happening on almost…
The start of April and the lead up to the Easter holidays was ridiculously busy with both school and work and my brain was so full that I had no headspace to do anything other than get through each day. I switched off as much as I could during our annual trip to Cornwall and…
It has been an absolutely mad few weeks. A flying visit to Spain for my Grannie’s funeral; a nasty tummy bug that flattened both Mimi and the husband for several days; ongoing issues with the kitchen repair/refurbishment following the fire seven weeks ago; the logistics of managing multiple after school club/sports/rehearsal commitments; plus a crazy…
Two weeks ago, on 19th March 2019, my Grannie left this earth. She was just six weeks short of her 99th birthday. She was an incredible character in so many different ways. She out-lived two of her four children and leaves behind her a legacy of eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Family was everything to…
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…
A weird week full of illness and sad news and big decisions and trying to keep up with crazy school and sport and work schedules. A very ordinary collection of photographs but capturing each one really has helped me survive these last few days. Sometimes it’s the little things that matter the most.
March has been an interesting month. It has felt pretty full-on, intense, and, if I’m honest, rather stressful at times. I’m going to be quite glad to see the back of it. We still have no kitchen following the fire we had last month, although thankfully things are starting to move forwards now and we…
I’ll be honest. Life has been a bit…challenging, recently. Looking forward to our annual trip to our happy place in Cornwall is one thing currently keeping me going. The other thing is this project. Committing to find a moment of joy in each day, no matter how difficult that day feels, redirects my attention to…
February is over, we’re almost halfway through March and I feel like I can breathe again. I hadn’t realised I was holding my breath. But I must have been because suddenly there’s a little bit less of a squeezing feeling in my chest. Last month marked four years since my Dad died, suddenly and unexpectedly,…