Last week, my littlest girl turned eight years old. EIGHT! I simply can’t wrap my head around it – I still think of her as the baby even though she’s in Year 3 at school now. She was so excited in the lead up to her special day: asking me every day how many sleeps…
Back in December I read this post by Suzanne from Inside, Outside and Beyond and I loved the idea – something about it just piqued my curiosity and I started wondering about what my year would look like in numbers. I sat down to write and quickly realised that I was really going to have…
Our Happy Jar is quickly becoming my new favourite family tradition. Every year, on 1st January, we start with an empty jar. It lives in our kitchen and I leave a little stack of coloured paper and a pen nearby. Throughout the year we each write down the little things (and big things!) that we’ve…
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 created this blog as a way…
It seems a little strange to be writing about this now, on the final day of the year. Looking backwards when my head is already firmly in the mindset of looking forwards to how I want 2018 to be and what I can do to actively create that. But this was too special a weekend…
A Christmas edition of #projecthappy! I can’t quite believe we’re at the end of 2017 already. These last couple of months since we got home from Florida seem to have zoomed by. As ever, this project makes me slow down and appreciate the moments that would otherwise pass by in a haze, especially at…
I’ve not been feeling particularly festive this year. I’m not sure why, I’ve just not been able to summon up that special brand of excitement that usually accompanies the month of December. I’ve not felt stressed or overwhelmed either, just… flat. That’s the only way I can think of to describe it. I didn’t want…
Christmas is over for another year and I’ve been home from Colorado for almost three full months now. Sometimes I still wonder if it ever really happened at all and then I look up at the Christmas cards all my new friends sent me lined up along the bookcase in our lounge and I know I did. It just…
Two weeks ago Ella celebrated her eleventh birthday. Eleven! I almost can’t believe it. I thought her turning ten last year felt like she was all grown up. It’s got nothing on eleven though. Eleven feels…different. She’s on the cusp of so many changes and it’s going to be a learning curve for both of…
The last couple of weeks has been full-on with school activities, Christmas preparations, snow days and trying to get the last mountain of my work done, all whilst we all crawled towards the end of term. Somehow though it hasn’t felt particularly busy and I’m grateful for that. The unexpected snow brought lots of moments…