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…
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…
At the beginning of December, the lovely people at Lucky Gecko sent us one of their Midwinter Discovery Boxes to review. We’d already reviewed some of their subscription boxes back in the summer holidays and the girls absolutely loved them. They still talk about them now, months later, and I knew this one would be…
Just over a week ago we welcomed two tiny new members into our family. No, I’ve not had a well-hidden pregnancy that I’ve kept secret from everyone and no, we’ve not adopted. Well, not human babies anyway… After we lost our boy, Pumpkin, we were all devastated. We still are. Not a day goes by that I…
It seems to be taking me forever to write about everything that happened at Leap Retreat. Considering I was only in Colorado for such a short time (literally a weekend!), I have so much I still want to share and finding the headspace to do it is proving difficult owing to this current busy season of birthdays…
I normally take hundreds of photos every month, and usually most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. This month is a little different. I’ve taken fewer photos, and many of those that you see here have already been shared, either in other blog posts or on my Instagram. But because there are less images,…
After the ridiculous craziness of September and October, we all needed November to be a quiet month. Ella and Lola thoughtfully shared their horrid cold with me, so I spent several days at the beginning feeling like death warmed up and we’ve stayed relatively close to home most of the time. As a result I’ve actually…
Early one Sunday morning back at the start of November, we bundled into the car and headed down to Marlborough. The purpose of the trip was to collect some of my Dad’s belongings from my Stepmum, who, after two and a half years of living alone in a town she only has bad memories of, is making…